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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: haqihana who wrote (15024)	11/26/2006 2:55:53 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

"Those that rose up to meet the challenge, did not lack in bravery, but did not have the tactics." If you cannot beat them, join them. The wise took up the opportunity to have their children educated in white man's ways. When one knows the ways of their ancestors and the new ways, then more choices present themselves. There is no question that abrogating lawful treaties because the parcels of land granted to the original inhabitants of this continent became valuable was wrong. Who know what would have happened to Native Americans if they had been allowed to keep lands rich with oil and other minerals? It is likely that some tribes would have followed the path of kleptocracy and others would have invested for the good of the tribe.