Really?
American Indians have the exact same kind of government you folks advocate for, small.
They did, as the indigenous people in this country, have the "inalienable" right to determine how best to run their own lands.
But it didn't work out that way. A "bigger government" came in and took their land.
That's generally how it works.
So are you saying they did own their land or that they didn't own their land?
Anyone who has ever done any serious reading about the Indians knows your claim is utter horseshit. The Indians didn't have any government at all. They were hunter gatherers. They also had no official territory boundaries to "their land." The areas where they wandered were much different only a few short years before the white-man appeared. That's because diseases wiped most of them out. The boundaries between the various tribes were in a constant state of flux because they were constantly warring against one another. The idea that they were the "owners" of the land where they happened to be hunting buffalo in any given year is utterly specious.
Libturds like to promote this idea that Indians owned the land before we did because it makes it easier to justify expropriating it.
Well no, Indians had government. And this is where your ethnocentricity..comes in. Because it wasn't "your" type of government. And they had a different idea of "ownership". And the "disease" that wiped them out was a form of biological warfare that Europeans used against Indians. Along with starving them out by killing (and almost wiping out) the buffalo. And if they didn't believe they had claim to the land, then they wouldn't have fought for it.
What happened to the American Indian was genocide. Pure and simple.
And by the very same government that enslaved black folks.
And that white folks were dependent on for 237 years.