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Always was, alwas will be their land. Laws don’t change that they were cultivating this beautiful country for some tens of thousands of years prior. You can w

Always was, alwas will be their land. Laws don’t change that they were cultivating this beautiful country for some tens of thousands of years prior. You can write silly words on a page and say it’s law and has meaning. And you can disagree with those words. That no culture knows this land better than their culture is indicative. What an embarrassing and shameful situation that we have rid this land of their culture and people can’t be bothered to let their guard down, open their hearts and love their fellow humans…

PaulDavisThe1st 4y ago
Sorry, but this is simply ridiculous. Land changes hands - by violence, and occasionally by consent - throughout human history. Sometimes, even the actual identity of the people present changes slowly over time, without anyone noticing until a few hundred years later. > "their culture" Native Americans are not all a monolithic block, and in my part of the world, for example, the Hopi still "remember" (as a part of their own oral history) when Athabascans from what is now called Alberta & British Columbia migrated (with a certain level of violence) into their area (and eventually became the Dine). From the tone of my Hopi neighbor, I'd say there is still some resentment about that. The Americas were essentially just as full of conquests and land-grabs as Europe or Asia. The big difference, or at least the one we register today, is inter-continental colonialism combined with genocidal intent. That is not exclusive to western European cultures, but for reasons that I still don't pretend to understand or know, that part of the world seems to have operated in this manner far more and far effectively than any other. However, the notion that a particular part of the Earth "always was, always will be" the home and place of a single group of people is just not a description of human history on this planet.

PaulDavisThe1st 4y ago

Sorry, but this is simply ridiculous. Land changes hands - by violence, and occasionally by consent - throughout human history. Sometimes, even the actual identity of the people present changes slowly over time, without anyone noticing until a few hundred years later. > "their culture" Native Americans are not all a monolithic block, and in my part of the world, for example, the Hopi still "remember" (as a part of their own oral history) when Athabascans from what is now called Alberta & British Columbia migrated (with a certain level of violence) into their area (and eventually became the Dine). From the tone of my Hopi neighbor, I'd say there is still some resentment about that. The Americas were essentially just as full of conquests and land-grabs as Europe or Asia. The big difference, or at least the one we register today, is inter-continental colonialism combined with genocidal intent. That is not exclusive to western European cultures, but for reasons that I still don't pretend to understand or know, that part of the world seems to have operated in this manner far more and far effectively than any other. However, the notion that a particular part of the Earth "always was, always will be" the home and place of a single group of people is just not a description of human history on this planet.