Most of the tribes are still on the ancestral land their tribes claimed. The instances where they are not are mostly due to old tribal conflicts, either internally or with rival tribes/bands. Displacement is not the rule, it has always been the exception. The majority basically just got neighbors. That's it. Not conquerors, not overlords. Just new neighbors. They have 2 citizenships now. First to their Tribe which is a micro nation exempted from the bullshit laws of their secondary citizenship to the US. They have every benefit of being American citizens and none of the responsibilities taxes or duties.
The only thing the white man is brutal about is war. In peace the white man is absurdly generous and trusting.
Most first nations people I have met that soberly work for a living and invest in and build their micro nation are typically very conservative and do not see themselves as victims at all. Their ancestors made treaty with a technologicaly and numerically overwhelming force and were assimilated intact and sovereign.
That's a better outcome than most of our tribes got from Rome.
*Edit, a huge exception to the displacement rule are the first nations that went to Canada. The railroad barons had senators in their pockets and it's very unlikely they would have offered a fair or reasonable treaty to the tribes that were in the way of the railroad cartel.
The whole topic is touchy, which is why the grievance and victimization hustlers are all over it, because there are/were definitely tribes that got conned, annihilated or scattered -- but the overwhelming majority of first nations you'll meet today are NOT those tribes.
And the buffalo kill-off was 100% bad, but the blame there is with a few bad organizations, not the entire nation. The national interest was always to do the right thing. It's inverted that the government and corporations now place themselves as the protectors of law virtue and honor and the people get the shame of every corporate government atrocity committed on racial grievance grounds.
Most of the tribes are still on the ancestral land their tribes claimed. The instances where they are not are mostly due to old tribal conflicts, either internally or with rival tribes/bands. Displacement is not the rule, it has always been the exception. The majority basically just got neighbors. That's it. Not conquerors, not overlords. Just new neighbors. They have 2 citizenships now. First to their Tribe which is a micro nation exempted from the bullshit laws of their secondary citizenship to the US. They have every benefit of being American citizens and none of the responsibilities taxes or duties.
The only thing the white man is brutal about is war. In peace the white man is absurdly generous and trusting.
Most first nations people I have met that soberly work for a living and invest in and build their micro nation are typically very conservative and do not see themselves as victims at all. Their ancestors made treaty with a technologicaly and numerically overwhelming force and were assimilated intact and sovereign.
That's a better outcome than most of our tribes got from Rome.
*Edit, a huge exception to the displacement rule are the first nations that went to Canada. The railroad barons had senators in their pockets and it's very unlikely they would have offered a fair or reasonable treaty to the tribes that were in the way of the railroad cartel.
The whole topic is touchy, which is why the grievance and victimization hustlers are all over it, because there are/were definitely tribes that got conned, annihilated or scattered -- but the overwhelming majority of first nations you'll meet today are NOT those tribes.
And the buffalo kill-off was 100% bad, but the blame there is with a few bad organizations, not the entire nation. The national interest was always to do the right thing. It's inverted that the government and corporations now place themselves as the protectors of law virtue and honor and the people get the shame of every corporate government atrocity committed on racial grievance grounds.