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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread cracks me up.

[i]Native Americans, who mostly call themselves Indians, aren't a monolithic group of people. Tribes fought tribes and drove tribes off lands and were just as warlike as any people anywhere in the world. So what tribe owned the land in the first place? Because they just replaced whoever was there before. [/i]

Nor am I sure why some people think borders are racist. I lived for decades outside the US in non white countries and people were certainty very protective of borders and strong cultural identities. [/quote]

What does that have to do with the fact that the US government signed treaties with East Coast tribes that said, if you give up you land east of the Mississippi and move to Indian Territory, we will not bother you any more, and then fifty years later passed a law that broke up that tribal territory and sold it off, while the original treaty was still in effect (and is to this day, as recently reaffirmed by the Supreme Court in McGirt v Oklahoma)? This isn't about land won via battle. This is about the US federal government and state governments allowing white settlers to illegally occupy Indian land and then assume title via adverse possession, or to take it via the Dawes Act and parcelization and redistribution which violated the various treaties.

These are legal issues. When you buy a house or property, you have to do a title search. If it belongs to someone else, you can't buy it until it has a clean title. The issue now is that much of the land in dispute are not the unmapped areas held by long-ago tribes that no one can name. They are the territories with borders negotiated by the US government with existing tribes, which were taken in the 19th century, all of which is documented through maps, court decisions, and Congressional hearings. Questions of ownership and compensation can be resolved. 
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