Uh, no they weren't. Here, let's use an example you can understand. "Hey, you just shot Poodle". "It was self-defense, he came after me." "Uh, you broke into his house and you were stealing his stuff!" "Exactly. Self Defense."
It's a cute story, but like
everything you post, it's ignorant and propaganda.
The Native Americans didn't establish a nation. They were hundreds of
individual tribes with "territories". 95% of the US was unclaimed land, and the areas that Native Americans did inhabit didn't have "deeds" or anything else because there was no established government or legal system.
Thanks for playing, Joseph (Stalin). Class dismissed.
Wrong.
There was no "unclaimed land" in north American, and the colonists knew that.
That is why they brought soldiers and hundred of rifles.
The native tribes each established a nation.
The borders of all native nations were recorded and marked.
There was established government and legal systems.
In particular in NY area., there was the Iroquois Federation of 7 Nations
{...
Iroquois Confederacy, self-name
Haudenosaunee (“People of the Longhouse”), also called
Iroquois League,
Five Nations, or (from 1722)
Six Nations,
confederation of five (later six)
Indian tribes across upper
New York state that during the 17th and 18th centuries played a strategic role in the struggle between the French and British for mastery of
North America. The five original
Iroquois nations were the
Mohawk (self-name: Kanien’kehá:ka [“People of the Flint”]),
Oneida (self-name: Onᐱyoteʔa∙ká [“People of the Standing Stone”]),
Onondaga (self-name: Onoñda’gega’ [“People of the Hills”]),
Cayuga (self-name: Gayogo̱hó:nǫ’ [“People of the Great Swamp”]), and
Seneca (self-name: Onödowa’ga:’ [“People of the Great Hill”]). After the
Tuscarora (self-name: Skarù∙ręʔ [“People of the Shirt”]) joined in 1722, the confederacy became known to the English as the Six Nations and was recognized as such at
Albany, New York (1722). Often characterized as one of the world’s oldest participatory
democracies, the confederacy has persisted into the 21st century. ...}
The fact little land was cleared for farming does not mean it was not used.
Hunters need more untouched land than farmers do.
All the land was used and was essential.
The natives already had to fight each other due to over population for hunter, already, even before the European colonists arrived.