If I remember history correctly…

That is your problem; you do, and those lamenting the fate of Native Americans don’t even study it anymore.

Your well written piece brought to mind an anecdote from my past. I took a job as manager of a 3,000 acre farm in Rhodesia in ’74, when the whole world was agitating for White Men to “go home” and leave Africa to its natives. The farmer once said to me, “Dave, my great-grandfather cleared this land. My grandfather was born on this land. My father was born on it, and so was I. Now I have two sons born here. I AM home, and have nowhere else to go.”

We employed 150 natives and provided education and medical care for their well-fed families, while contributing to Rhodesia’s role as the bread basket of Africa. A few years later, it succumbed to UN Sanctions. The farms were confiscated from their rightful owners, and turned over to the communist trained terrorists we had been fighting. They now call it Zimbabwe, and I am sure the worlds hand-wringers are proud of their righteous success. Ask the now starving natives if the meddling do-gooders did them a favor… ◄Dave►