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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Fixating on just one narrow piece of anything—including history—misses the big picture. [/b]

Yes, the Europeans who settled coastal MA and the colonizers who followed ultimately fought over land.

But our American history also includes defeating the British crown and building a new country that established a democracy and rule of law never before seen.

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That never would have happened had we stayed in Europe. And it’s kind of a big deal.

It obviously wasn’t all good.

Slavery and the related human rights abuses that came with it and the inequality that wasn’t addressed until the 1960s are shameful.

But things are getting better. They usually do if you study history rather than fixate and navel gaze. [/quote]

The point is to NOT fixate on the manufactured story of “the pilgrims and the Indians”.

Listen to the other perspectives and experiences. 
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- and also to give the land back to its rightful owners.[/quote]

Yay, whatever tribes managed to be in ascendency at whatever arbitrary date PP chooses are entitled to the land. The tribes that they stole it from and tried to eradicate can then demand the land back. The tribes that those tribes stole the land from can then claim it back from the tribes whose land was stolen by the tribes who had their land stolen by settlers. We can keep playing this game until we can track down whoever has feet that fit the White Sands footprints. It will be like modern day Cinderella, but with more victimhood  [/quote]

Ok. Give them all a big chunk of land and let them decide how to break it up. 
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How is that fair the the descendants of Paleo-Americans whose ancestors settled in a given area? Why should the descendants of a group who tried to eradicate them and stole their land be entitled to it? [/quote]

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