So do you think America should give back the country to the natives then? It's their religious homeland, they were killed and kicked off it for centuries, repeatedly lied to and abused the entire time.
Each case has its specifics. I don't know yours.
I don't know American history of treatment of Natives as well as I know Canadian treatment of indigenous first nations, particularly Halifax other than you Americans were a lot bloodier about it. What I do know is yes, Canada lied to us continuously and documented the fact in well written official treaties which came to light much later and are being discussed in courts and settlement hearings as we speak. The indigenous population granted Canada a lot of land in official documents for promises that were not kept and broken at many turns. A lot of land in Canada is still considered "unceded native land", and thus, we are not permitted to develop on it, sell, it, log it, without the permissions of the first nations counsels in control of those lands. Which is usually given after some financial transfers and incentives.
Unfortunately, we are also very very excluded from proceedings if you are part Native like myself and were not raised on the reservations and reservations I have seen have a very corrupted system designed to benefit the best swindlers like Mike Sack. When a former chief like his blood Jerry Sack can spread drugs and addiction in the community to use as leverage and extort your vote for him to remain chief, or threaten to have your home given to another family and move you to a shittier home if you don't cooperate(Chiefs have that power and the Canadian government can't intervene). Mike Sack's people live in Abject poverty. He is a multi millionaire who owns multiple constructions businesses and fisheries and swindles the money he is supposed to use as chief to help his people into his own private coffers.
http://kukukwes.com/2016/11/01/mone...ik-band-to-build-luxury-house-to-be-returned/
Yes, this chief is the face of "indigenous fishing rights" in Nova Scotia right now that is causing such a hubbub. All across Canada people who don't understand the situation jump on his side and call the fishermen trying to make him follow the fishing seasons for conservation "racist" trying to deny them a modest living lol. Meanwhile like everyone in the know in Nova Scotia, including other First nations in Nova Scotia hate his guts and try to explain to the media who this guy is to no avail. A huge conglomerate of First Nations recently bought Clearwater fishing, worth billions, and now he is fighting with THEM. But the media won't print that. Doesn't fit their "racist" narrative when its Natives fighting with Natives.
The Sack family was given 10 fishing boats worth 2.5 million dollars, equipment and training decades ago in an effort to help his band become able to give more bandmembers a modest living Lobster fishing. Instead jerry Sack sold the 10 boats for 1.2m dollars and leased the Lobster licenses out to non tribe fishermen and kept the profits, only allowing a little to trickle to the band he supposed to take care of.
Now he sees dollar signs in Lobster fishing out of season to corner the market, so he is fishing during molting season, which will ultimately harm stocks and endanger the supply of Lobster in the future and calling it "racist" when they try to stop him.
So yeah, that's our situation. What's yours? Which are you referring to? Each band has its History
I know in certain parts of America, the US troops armed certain bands so they could wipe out other bands and make deals with them, and that some tribes sided with the french in their battles and then lost. but I would need to look at which specific scenario you are referring to to understand what point you are even trying to make
In this case the muslim sultan, who had control of that territory for hundreds of years , sold tons and tons of land to the jewish for the purpose of them returning to the holy land. And then after taking their money, evicted and killed a bunch of them in ww1.