[Aliska]

Many did survive the ordeal; interestingly they didn't murder them all and after several months or couple of years, they were released. Others died because they were weakened.

They were conducting terrorism against the colonists. Because the colonists had to fight back, they are considered by historians of committing genocide.

Do you think the early colonists would be considered illegal aliens? I know they had permission from their governments to emigrate.

[Antoninus]

Do you think the early colonists would be considered illegal aliens? I know they had permission from their governments to emigrate.

It's funny. I once posed that question in reverse to someone who took up the usual "Evil Europeans" mantra. Did the European colonists have a right to settle in North America? My opponent sniffed out the trap immediately and realized that if she said no, then the counter argument was: "Well, then what right do illegal immigrants have to come here today?" She simply said, yes, the Europeans did have a right to come here and settle.