Posted on 06/14/2024 12:50:57 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Conquered does not equal stolen.
As they say, losing wars has consequences.
For example, the Black Hills region has been inhabited by Indians for almost 10,000 years. The Arikira tribe arrive around 1500 A.D., followed by the Cheyenne, Crow, Kiowa and Pawnee.
When the Lakota arrived in the 18th century they drove out the other tribes and claimed the land for themselves. The lands soon became sacred to the Lakota Sioux.
An interesting take on tribal relations is documented in R. Eli Paul's "The Autobiography of Red Cloud: War Leader of the Oglalas."
Prior to the introduction of European horses and firearms, tribes mostly just counted coup. Their wars resulted in few casualties or death. After, their battles became much more bloody.
If they keep pushing for reparations, they’ll be going all the way back to Adam and Eve in the Garden Of Eden.
That’s right.
You are correct.
They came here from Asia. No human was “indigenous” to this Hemisphere. Conservatives need to just start saying this out loud and ridiculing these absurd claims.
Exactly.
They conveniently overlook how various tribes “stole” land from each other. Where many tribes were in the nineteenth century is not where they started out. And they waged war and inflicted depredations and slavery on each other. Could the conflicts between whites and Indians have turned out differently? Maybe. But it’s a very complex history and and there is plenty of dirt to go around, just as in history in general.
Someone will find the not-native behind this effort. You know there is one.
FIFY
Come and take it back...
Give it back, force them to rent to present occupants at a reasonable rate and pay curre t stepped up property taxes. Foreclose the moment they fail to. End.
“OK libs. Give it back.”
Not a bad idea if it was stolen, I do not know. In addition, give all federal lands aside from military and federal installations back to the respective states to use as each state sees fit.
The left somehow gets their noses into things,and stirs the pot...
Yes, who did the last tribe steal it from?
beaten by a superior culture
“Capitalism was built on stolen land, stolen labor, and stolen resources,” Candi CdeBaca stated. “You could be collecting those extra taxes from white-led businesses all over the city and redistributing them to black and brown-owned businesses.”
Why would “extra taxes” go to “black and brown-owned businesses” instead of to the tribes?
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