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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you a Native American, OP?[/quote]

Native Americans got conquered and lost. Just like all for the Native Indians in South and Central, America, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.   History is written and countries are formed by the winners.  Sorry you can't cope with the fact that many countries on Earth are founded on land once held by considered individuals. World history is what it is.  [/quote]

How is it "conquering" someone for the United States government to sit down, government-to-government, negotiate a written treaty, have that treaty ratified by a Senate vote, signed by the President, and then [i]violate it to this day[/i]. That's not...conquering a people....that's just violating an international treaty.

If we agree in writing that "the United States cedes land between these boundaries to this tribal nation" and then later we decide we need to divide that same land into 40-acre parcels to give away for free to white immigrants (whose descendants will later claim they "never got any help from the government"), how is that "conquering" someone? Isn't it just a land grab?

Not to mention, since the US we live in today is the same US that signed the treaties in the 19th century, we (you and I) are responsible for them now. I'm not saying we should feel [u]guilty[/u], I'm saying we are [u]legally responsible[/u] since we are citizens, not subjects, of a government [i]of, by, and for the people[/i]. [/quote]

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