Yes, Let's set the record straight here.
I never said indigenous peoples in the Americas were "wild animals" so please don't put words into my mouth. That only makes you look as though you don't have honest answers.
Second, you should know a bit more about indigenous peoples, of which you claim to be one, before claiming to know all there is to know about your peoples' history.
Your ancestors didn't live in the loving utopia you envision. Different tribes fought each other long, long before the "White" man ever colonized the continents. Many tribes lived on the Plains and competed over resources. Fought wars over resources. Tribes didn't begin fighting each other simply because Europeans arrived; they had been fighting among themselves for thousands of years. The Lakota (Sioux, since it was a group of different tribes) left the woodlands to take land from the tribes living there (known as the Chippewa). A war party that returned with the scalp of an enemy was cause for celebration and that warrior was honored. The "Lakota" then came into conflict with the Pawnee, fierce fighters who farmed their fertile lands and fought back fiercely to protect "their" lands from the invading indigenous tribes. So much for your misguided claim that indigenous peoples didn't wage war and kill other indigenous tribal people until the White man came along. The Lakota then pushed to the west and pushed out (by war, not a brunch invitation) the Omaha tribes. Many tribes took captured enemy warriors as slaves' centuries before Europeans (sorry, I should say WHITE people) and when the "WHITE" people came and colonized the American continents indigenous tribes happily sold those slaves more than a century before the African slave trade began. Indigenous peoples proved themselves as fierce and capable fighters and Europeans /WHITE people learned that the hard way. They didn't learn to fight because of the European invasion. And no, they didn't simply murder everyone not in their culture/tribe, but the Mississippian culture built a site/village as their northeastern most outpost, and it was very heavily fortified against attack. As they were a pre-contact civilization (they collapsed 50 years before Columbus), so all those fortifications were obviously to protect them from other Native Americans. The things that happened in the Americas would be right at home with things that happened between cultures on every continent. Yes, the United States government broke treaty after treaty after treaty and did horrible things to the indigenous peoples of the American continents and I say nothing to indicate otherwise but to claim peace and harmony and absolute freedom of movement among natives in the Americas is a bridge too far.
There, is " Let's set the record straight here", answered to your satisfaction or would you prefer to continue to live in a dream world and stew in resentment?
