stringtapper wrote:It wasn't illegal then because the tribes didn't have the weaponry needed to make it illegal. Violence will solve somebody's problems in the end. I have native blood in me, so it's not something I necessarily enjoy knowing happened, but the past is the past. The cop right now has the weaponry needed to make some things I would like to do enforceably illegal.
Precisely, of course. The old notion that this country was founded on a bunch of douche bags is a HUGE crock of crap. The truth is that the extremely WRONG treatment of the Native Indians came LONG after the initial settling of those that first came here. The Indians fought along side those early settlers against the British and French in an effort to secure the new establishment and protect it from Euro tyrants. That's because they were on excellent terms and traded peacefully with them.
When the Indians were brutalized, savagely tortured and run off their own land, it was more of the violent power infested and corrupt
"authoritative" bullshit that followed, not began, the US.
The illegal immigration issue in the United States and other countries around the globe is NOTHING like the situation in the US when it began.