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3. The land issue is the "mortal sin" of the Native Americans...
Sat Jan 9, 2021, 07:32 PM
Jan 2021

the fact that they wouldn’t agree to be each doled out some small parcel of land, that could later be stolen, predated, connived away, one by one, separated from each other instead of a contiguous range.

In many ways it is the same issue that people like the Bundys, and mining/extraction corporations have with federal ownership of land. It is MUCH easier to steal/chip away/etc from a smaller/weaker state (or an individual in the case of the Native Americans) than it is the federal government (or an entire tribe).

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