HelpingNoone
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Absolutely. I especially hate when the left focuses in on the "original sin" of imperialism as if it's something uniquely "white".I'm just going to paraphrase what I've said in other threads: the natives were quite proficient at fucking each other over, taking over each other's land and territory, and being general assholes. As humans are when resources are limited.
This bullshit some people spout about "the natives had no concept of land ownership" is just that: bullshit. Yeah, the land may not have officially belonged to anyone specifically, but your stuff was still your stuff, and the tribe was going to defend their territory being encroached upon as viciously as an European colonizer, and they had enough trouble with people attacking and invading one another they actually created their own local confederacies even before the Europeans showed up. That meant they were politically sophisticated, for sure (humans tend to be), but it also spoke volumes as to the situation they were in: they would not need coalitions and peace treaties if they were already coexisting peacefully.
The big reason why we don't read about the atrocities the native American nations inflicted upon one another is because the Europeans did a great job of erasing those records since so many of them were carried only orally, and the "pro-native" groups out there refuse to allow access to any information still around because they don't want their "side" to look bad. So now all we have are the stories that survived, and even those are usually curated to make the natives look good because if you present them in any sort of negative light you get barraged by low-information idiots. Even tribes that were infamous for being such assholes other tribes allied with the Europeans against them, get whitewashed and turned into misunderstood puppydogs. Which is an insult to everybody's intelligence, because human societies are complex and nuanced.
If you transported Karl to the 1600s for all his preaching he'd be dog food within a week.
Up until 100 years ago EVERY culture took part in redefining their borders by war and trade. Even the Native Americans...
They have this utopia where the colonizers should give land back to the colonized. But who did those people take it from? Do you go back to the Paleolithic period 40,000 years ago?
It's hopeful to think that Native American's would be happily living off the land in 2021 had we not arrived. Famine and tribal war had just as big of an impact on South American tribes disappearing, as did Spanish interference.