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Originally Posted by valo403
Well let's take your reasoning down the path as well then, why does x tribe get to claim it? Did they purchase it from the previous inhabitants or did they take it by driving out competitors who sought to utilize the desired resources? You can't vilify a taking by force at one point in time while ignoring the fact that the previous claim was almost certainly established in the exact same manner.
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The difference is we have historical documentation of these atrocities and land theft, committed by those who considered themselves "enlightened." I'm hardly one to promote the idea of the noble savage, but we just do not possess the necessary evidence to make any kind of contextual judgement beyond a certain period of history.
Besides which, the taking of land is only part of the problem. The mistreatment of Native Americans in the centuries since is absolutely deplorable.