This shows what happens when you put your trust in the government.

*laws

Indians won't have any land left!

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No, this shows what happens when white, christian men get what they want.

Same thing, right?

Historically speaking, this is incorrect. The Filipino/Thai/Malaysian Negritos, the Taiwanese aborigines, the Japanese Ainu, did not get pushed to the fringe of society by Christian white men.

I'm pretty sure we could find other non-western examples.

Yeah, it's great isn't it? The American people trusted their government, and in turn gained great wealth and land. Of course the indigenous people suffered, but they weren't citizens in the first place.

So in summary, bobknight33 tells us to trust our government, because they do great things for us.

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This map/video is so wrong on so many levels.

Firstly, to call the entirety of the present day United States "Indian Land" before the states were created is wrong and idiotic. Native Americans (another misnomer) were not present in every spot of every bit of the lands in any way. For the majority of the middle of the states, Natives were nomadic peoples, thus while they could lay claim to all of the land if you asked, it is just as dumb as saying that a bear owns all of the territory it can walk on.

Secondly, for those of you who think that Native Americans should have more reservations, you should read any number of books by Native American scholars that say that the worst thing the governments have done is treat Native Americans as separate from standard citizens of the countries that have them. What they should do is eliminate reservations altogether to get rid of the dependency trap that is killing the Native American people as we speak. One might say, "well, they will lose their culture." But this, too is incorrect. Have the Chinese lost their culture in North America? Have the varying kinds of Europeans? In my city many people still celebrate Chinese New Year and lots celebrate Saint Patrick's Day and Robbie Burns day (regardless of whether or not these are ex-pat holidays).

So in conclusion, what the government did in the past vis-a-vis the murder of Native Peoples was absolutely despicable. However, taking land was very often something that happened without bloodshed and was done with trades and treaties, the bloodshed that followed was a clash between terrified Europeans and the people whose culture they didn't understand. But for many of the incidents the Native Peoples sanctified the taking of the land.

It's perfectly proper that advanced civilisations should supplant lesser ones.

Nice land you got there natives, it'd be a shame if we took it.