>>>>>Not really clear on your history. Most were legal immigrants. Knowing that now, do you stand by your post as it is?
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>>>>Indians were, for the most part, either killed or driven out what was original their own lands, by force. Whether there was a written law at that time is quite irrelevant; the important point is that this is definitely worse than anything that illegal immigrants today do to U.S. citizens.
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>>>I guess I've got a different take on that. What allows a group of people to lay claim to land? Is it because they were born there? I think the reality is, it is because they took it and defended it. The indians were constantly battling each other, stealing each other's food, women, etc. What is the difference, if an Englishman raids an Apache camp and takes over, or a Commanche?
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>>So in your view white settlers were doing the natives a favor? The land was as much theirs as it was the natives'?
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>White settlers looked on it as 'free land' because, after all, them Injuns weren't doing nuthin' with it.


Which injuns? The wuns what took the land from the other injuns?