” It Should NOT have even Been any Question about it. It was THEIR LAND! PERIOD.
jafojeffsurf, where is it you live that you can say no one else laid claim to it before you? Could it be you are Kennewick Man?
And YOU pollywog...how is it that you have taken one of their children?
She was THEIRS, PERIOD, to quote your friend jafo. “
I Have No Idea what you are saying, Are you trying to say it is not their land? Are they a sovereign Nation?
God Bless
Of course it is not “their” land.
My hometown tribes lived on that very land before the Siouxan tribes drove them away from it, a couple hundred years ago.
Does that mean the land should be given back to the tribes from my area?
And of course they are not a sovereign nation, in any sense of the word. They vote in U.S. elections. If they work, they pay U.S. taxes. Since so many of them don’t work, they live off the taxes paid by other Americans.
To their great and heroic credit, many American Indians serve bravely in the U.S. military, as U.S. citizens, as U.S. citizens, as U.S. soldiers, sailers, airmen and so on.
Canada is a sovereign nation, if you want to see what one looks like. You can pretend all you want, and so can the “Indians” who lived somewhere else before they live where they live now (just like all the rest of us), but they are not ‘sovereign’...good lord, they are mostly sadly dependent U.S. citizens.