01-28-2016, 07:04 PM
(01-28-2016, 06:18 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: Easy, I was pointing out that in the early stages of the US, we were actually very good to the Native Americans and respected their rights as well. It was only later on when things got nasty.
Both sides contributed to the constant escalation of the violence towards each other.
If someone hits you, you will hit back, then it goes like that for a while and now your eye got poked out, now you want both of the other person's eyes poked out.
Andrew Jackson was a fool and didn't like the Indians, he mishandled this whole thing. The Supreme Court ruled that the Indians could not be forced from their land, and he told the states that he had no intention of enforcing that law.
Just keep in mind the Intent. it was never the intent to ELIMINATE the Native Americans, if they wanted to eliminate them, then they would have and they wouldn't have owed them any money for their lands etc.
So your saying the first "punch" wasn't thrown until after the Native Americans were displaced from the 13 original colonies and western expansion from that point?
