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Yes, I was expecting you, and I think that the picture that you paint is fair enough for those NAs who ended up on reservations for long periods. I have met many in the East who are fully assimilated, however. What the relative proportions are, I cannot say, but I have met quite a few. Also, I do not see how the condition of the continent can be considered poor when both agriculture and industry are thriving, and yet there remain plenty of forested areas and parklands, and pollution is being addressed. I agree that the concept of land ownership was foreign to many tribes. My only point is that the carrying capacity of the Americas was by no means filled, and there were many people hungry for land in other countries, and it is not clear why the continents should have been locked up against them. In any event, I am not proud of the ways in which treaties were violated, or of incidents like the Trail of Tears, but I am not sorry overall that Europeans settled the Americas, or that the United States of America was created. Are you? |
