And I wish he wouldn't.
When British, Spanish, Dutch and French explorers first set foot in the "new world" they found Native Americans here. There were over 400 different tribes....maybe even more.
So when a tribe sold "it's" stake in Manhattan to the Dutch, it wasn't selling every other tribe's stake. But the Dutch, not being well acquainted with the variety of Indians around, assumed that they were.
Miscommunication all around.
And a moot point.
What about all the other times the Indians of specific tribes signed treaties, then had the white man break that treaty. Most famous being the Black Hills - a treaty was signed saying this sacred land would remain with the Indians...then gold was found there and that was all she wrote.
To this day there is over $45 million in a trust fund for the Indians of the Black Hills, to compensate them for their land being taken so long ago, illegally. The Indians won't accept it - they say those hills are not for sale and they want them back.
Do research on all the treaties that were signed and broken between white man and Indian throughout the history of the conflict, and you'll find that white man broke 90% of 'em.
(Which is not to say that people today should give land back to the Indians. They have been compensated - and their way of life way back then is now gone. Tragically, yes, but gone. Time to accept the world as it is, get off the reservation, and assimilate into American society. Because staying on a reservation with poverty and alcoholism is not the way to go. (And let us not forget that there are plenty of alcoholics of all races, who don't have the excuse that the Indians do, namely that they actually do have a genetic weakness for alcohol).
I'd like to see Rush spend the day before Thanksgiving justifying American businessmen's usurpation of Hawaii....
Our usurpation of the island of Bikini to do our atomic testing in the 1950s...just moving folks out with no regard to what *they* wanted! And even after they were moved, they weren't taken care of.
It [Rongerik Atoll] is most famous as the temporary location from March 7, 1946 through March 14, 1948 of the Bikini Atoll's indigenous population while the United States government conducted the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests. After months of food shortages and malnutrition, they were moved first to Kwajalein and finally to Kili Island.
All these people from Bikini - or their descendants - (only 600 people, but still...) are still on the government teat, but they can't be blamed for that!
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