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Originally Posted by Hank
Big hint: Murdering racist conquers would not buy land and set up reservations to assure that every American Indian has a chance in the new land or a choice of his own rule and ways.
I mean duhhh.
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What if the reservations were set up to encourage disease and pestilence? Yeah, and the land was bought, not conquered, riiiight.
How do you explain the reservations made by Hitler and the nazis? Werent they racist conquerors?
When we speak of this issue, we are talking about complex interaction over 400 years. The generalist, surface answers which you are providing arent exaclty addressing this reality. No one can say "we were welcome immigrants" because there were thousands of tribes and many did not welcome white people, who butchered their land and way of life.
Also, the cherokees attempted to deal with the US diplomatically, and experienced a massive deportation that parallelled the Bataan death march.
Andrew Jackson said to the US Senate "I believe the Cherokee nation should be scourged" (he also mutilated 800 creek indians and collected their body parts, an act which you apparently detest)
Governor of the California territority said he was fighting "a war of extermination" (it was law that any settler could take any indian as his slave, no quesions asked)
i am only scratching the surface of this complex issue, you are trying to dismiss the question in one sentence, while competent individuals understand it takes years of real research to even approach this issue, and your posts in no way represent any form of real knowledge on the issue.