Like Native Americans lived before White Americans?
People should have rights to the land they live on.
You think otherwise as a Zionist.
1. The Indians were not 'native.'
2. Those stone-age savages had no concept of ownership of land, or of capitalism, before the European settlers taught them.
3. There is no comparison with Zionist or the indigenous Jews of Israel.
You're a bigoted dunce.
The Native Americans are indigenous.
When are you giving up your house to them?
Instead you support Jewish indigenous rights, because you're a hypocrite Zionist.
If Native Americans tomorrow possessed the military resources and manpower to stage a revanchist campaign in the United States, then they are wholly within their moral rights to do so.
Just as the Jews were in Palestine in 1948.
You're just jealous that the Jews actually succeeded and managed to pull it off.
God's laws of karma are always in effect. It's poetic and beautiful, even when it isn't.
What nonsense......you must be a government school grad. Have you ever read a book?
Do you know what a book is?????
1. Did the colonists steal THEIR land?
"The implications for the Indian question are straightforward. Namely: In the extremely unlikely event that any particular Indian can show that he personally is the rightful heir of a particular Indian who was wrongfully dispossessed of a particular piece of property, the current occupants should hand him the keys to his birthright and vacate the premises. Otherwise
the current occupants have the morally strongest claim to their property,and the status quo should continue.
Anything more is
just the doctrine of collective guiltmasquerading as a defense of property rights."
Do Indians Rightfully Own America Bryan Caplan EconLog Library of Economics and Liberty
2. "One popular history of Manhattan notes that the Canarsie Indians "dwelt on Long Island, merely trading on Manhattan, and their trickery [in selling what they didn't possess to the Dutch] made it necessary for the white man to buy part of the island over again from the tribes living near Washington Heights. Still more crafty were the Raritans of [Staten Island], for the
records show that Staten Island was sold by these Indians no less than six times."
The Straight Dope How much would the 24 paid for Manhattan be worth in today s money
1626 Peter Minuit purchased the island of
Manhattan from the Canarsee
Native Americans on
May 24, 1626. However, the Canarsee were actually native to Brooklyn, while Manhattan was home instead to the
Weckquaesgeek,(Wappnai) who were not pleased by the exchange and later battled the Dutch in
Kieft's War.
Peter Minuit (1589-1638)
3. And because they had no concept of private property,
Indians regularly killed the animals that they hunted to the point of extinction.
'For the record' Native Americans did not believe they / we 'owned the land'. Tribes did protect territory (having to do more with resources hunting grounds, etc...), but it was the greedy white man who wanted to 'own' land, kill more than they could eat for profit (leaving dead buffalo carcasses littering the plains just for their hides, etc..). Of course, the Indians did sell a bunch of rube white people what is now Manhattan for a bunch of beads and junk - the joke was on them. As stated, those Indians didn't even own that land...
"According to
the myth of the noble eco-savage, indigenous peoples live in such a sympathetic relationship with the ecosystem that they only kill for their immediate needs, and never on a scale likely to drive species to extinction.... In fact, these ‘cultural mechanisms’ exist primarily in t
he minds of Western environmentalists.
It is difficult to find any evidence of them amongst the tribal peoples, either now or in the past.... The aim was to
kill as much as possible as quickly as possible, with the minimum risk to the hunter. There was
no concern for conserving future stocks, nor for taking only as much as was necessary to meet present needs."
Whelan, "Wild in the Woods: The Myth of the Noble Eco-Savage"
A favorite Indian device was the ‘jump’, which meant
stampeding herds of animalsover a cliff, so that the fall would kill them, described in "Playing God in Yellowstone," by Alston Chase.
"The Vore buffalo jump site in Wyoming...was used five times between 1550 and 1690, and holds the remains of 20,000 buffalo. That means 4,000 or more buffalo were killed each time the jump was used. Other buffalo jumps in the West display
the remains of as many as 300,000 buffalo. These sites were so numerous, in fact, and held such large deposits of bone, that for many years they were mined as a source of phosphorus for fertilizer!"
Frison, G.C., "Prehistoric Hunters of the High Plains," pp.239-44
Large amounts of
meat were left to rot and herds of animals were decimated, and sometimes driven to local extinction. Buffalo and antelope traps killed so many that it took the herds decades to recover.
"....American Indians displayed a similar lack of sensitivity to the "complex web of life". The Sioux, as Daniel Guthrie has noted, "showed
no qualms about driving a herd of buffalo over a cliff or about starting a range fire to drive the buffalo". And when buffalo were plentiful, often only the choicest parts were eaten, with the rest of the kill being left to rot --
Dances with Wolves notwithstanding. " "Primitive man's relationship to nature",
Bioscience, volume 21, 1971, page 722.
" In the Pacific Islands, the archaeological record shows that an
enormous number of birds became extinct before European contact, but after settlement by the ancestors of contemporary indigenous populations. In many parts of the Pacific more species of land birds became extinct than survive today as a consequence of pre-European contact forest-clearing, hunting, and predation by the mammals which the islanders brought with them. " D.W. Steadman, "Extinction of birds in Eastern Polynesia: a review of the record, and comparisons with other Pacific Island groups",
Journal of Archaeological Science, volume 16, 1989.
No 'greedy white men' involved.