Oh this is brilliant:
Let us also acknowledge that Native American society was just as warlike as any other in human history. The anthropologists’ vision of Native Americans as peace-pipe-smoking
environmentalists which gained purchase in the 1970s has long since given way to a more Hobbesian portrait of pre-Columbian reality.
In North America, most Natives were primitive farmers. This means that (with some exceptions) they had no permanent settlements: they farmed in an area for a few decades until the soil got tired, before moving on to greener pastures where the hunting was better and the lands more fertile. This meant that tribes were in constant conflict with other tribes. It also meant that chiefs were continually vying for power, creating confederations under themselves, and that the question of who owned the land was in a more or less constant state of flux. In most of North America, the idea that any one piece of land belonged to any one tribe, for more than 50 or 100 years, is therefore highly questionable.
In short, if you looked at a map of Native Canada 200 years before Europeans arrived, it would have been entirely different. In the meantime, some groups of natives would have slaughtered, bullied or enslaved others. Should we not be grieving for those Native Canadians whose land was stolen by other Native Canadians? Or is that somehow OK? I don’t suppose there is an app for that.
The idea that the Europeans stole some land which had belonged in perpetuity to any one tribe is therefore ludicrous.
Go here to read the rest. Ironically the stolen land idiots are only able to make this claim by treating the tribes as if they were European states with secure boundaries which they were manifestly not. They act as champions of dispossessed Indians only by viewing them through a purely Western prism. Of course this all has zip to do with history or the Indians and everything to do with a nihilistic Left that desires to destroy the West and build on its ruins an SJW Utopia. Calling these folks idiots is too kind. They are barking mad.
Having said all that, as faithful readers of this blog know I number Cherokee among my ancestors. If anyone is overwhelmed with guilt by owning stolen land, they can absolve that guilt by recording a warranty deed transferring title to me. Send the recorded deed and a title policy to PO Box 9, Dwight, Il. 60420. The land conveyed must be free of mortgages and all other liens. I will then send a personal pardon absolving them for all guilt for offenses committed against my red brethren and sistren. My proposal makes as much sense as anything else in this ludicrous virtue signaling fest.
