There is no Arapaho nation, as one would ordinarily define a "nation." I define myself as an Arapaho living in illegally occupied territory, under the thumb of a conqueror who will punish us if we declare true independence, raise our own army, have our own embassies, foreign policy, etc.
This land was taken illegally, under any just definition. Unfortunately, the US did the job the Israelis fear doing by completely decimating us in numbers, robbing us of our languages and traditions, and creating myths about how we had no concepts of land ownership and deserved conquest as bloodthirsty savages (Anyone who wants savagery can read the diaries of Columbus in the original--you'd think you are reading Mein Kampf, or an account of atrocities at Auschwitz!).
Might makes right, I guess, and the victors write the history. |
