cowboycwr said:FLBear5630 said:cowboycwr said:FLBear5630 said:historian said:Sam Lowry said:historian said:
That's not exactly what I said. Even the expansion out west, Manifest Destiny, was not imperial conquest in the historical sense. It was often complicated and chaotic and the Native American people's often suffered horribly, although they dished it out too. The reality is that the Great Plains was a vast territory that the US owned (purchased from France) and sparsely populated by small groups of Stone Age nomads. Clashes were inevitable and it was impossible for the status quo to continue.
So it was conquest, just not in the "historical" sense of conquering other human persons with dignity more or less equal to our own. Kind of like Palestine, I guess.
There is a difference between settling a land and conquering it. One cannot conquer land that nobody occupies. Much of it was unoccupied.
Really? I think there were quite a few reservations filled with people that would disagree. The Seminole's motto to this day is "Unconquered".
You really are a teacher?
Yes much of the land of both the Americas had no one on it. The tribes tended to live in small areas. The nomadic ones lived in smaller groups that moved around but it still meant that most of the land was unoccupied.
Wow, Iowa, Alaska, Texas, the whole southwest is open for occupation... Just because they didnt have a US recognized legal system of meets and bounds doesnt mean they didnt exist as nations. Didnt they teach you any other cultures in Texas. In NY we learned the Iriqous in Jr High... But if you guys believe we didnt conquer the Native tribes or they didnt have legal systems? Cant help you. But the Alamo... We were right there too. No war with Mexico, occupation of vacant land.
You guys can really mold things to be morally right... This site is an education.
Great job at taking what I said, taking a left turn, and going in a completely different direction. But that seems to be what you are good at.
I never said a word about legal system, boundaries, etc. Just that they didn't use the land or live on it. And of course you try to throw in digs at education.
No, that is what you said and you won't say you misspoke or stand corrected or used poor choice of words. Actually, none of you do.
But, they did! The plains indians whole lifestyle was based on using the land and following the herds with the seasons. We killed all of what they ate and used to live.
We did what we did, acknowledge it. Not everything we have done as a Nation is good. We have done a lot of good. But, also a lot of wrong. At least acknowledge the truth. The indians used the land and we wanted it so we killed their food supply, conquered them and put them on reservations. That is pretty much fact. Just like the Texicans rebelled and took Texas from Mexico. Call it like it is...
