01-30-2016, 07:58 PM
(01-30-2016, 04:59 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: The Old World colonial powers were at war with each other, too.
What makes a nation sovereign? Have you ever heard of the Iroquois Confederacy? Or how it affected certain documents written by certain founding fathers?
Shall we go off into another irrelevant tangent now? Isnt comparing Syrians to Native Americans enough?
A common misconception that white guilt people have is that ALL of North America was occupied by Indians, when the actual amount of territory "legally" owned by the natives was roughly 3%.
97% belonged to no one.
The natives believed in the "survival of the fittest" so to speak, that the stronger had the right to conquer the weaker.
Indians never claimed all the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Their concept of land ownership was the territory they were currently inhabiting.
The rest was fair game...even accordance to their own law. Much of this land claimed by settlers, who incidentally came under attack by the Indians in order to nip in the bud what they envisioned a complete takeover by whitey. They were right.
