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>All 4 (US, Canada, Mexico and Brazil) expanded without the consent of the native peoples. I would imagine without the majority consent of them today. In North America we drowned out their protest with ethnic cleansing, forced relocation, occupation via settlements. They been swallowed up.

If we didn't get the consent of at least some (most?) of the natives here in Canada, what are all those treaties about and what are the Constitutional provisions recognizing their impact about???

But it's true we did worse, actually, than what you describe above. Specifically I'm thinking of the "residential schools" where kids weren't allowed even a vestige of their culture right down to their names, how they referred to their parents, what they wore, what they played and the language they spoke. And for the adults, and important ritual was outlawed. And we put them on to "reservations" where they had to ask permission for anything and everything and they were essentially non-persons if they left its confines.