Native American Confronts Protesters on Illegal Immigration (wow)

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105. It's a lot more complex than that.

What particular ground were these "Native Americans" standing on, and did it belong to their tribe at any time?

I descended from the Walker clan of the Creek indian nation. When European (Spanish) explorers first made contact with our tribe, historical records show that we were engaged in wars with literally every tribe around us, and we seemed to be winning. That being said, it seems that the Delaware Indian tribe had at some point in the past pushed our tribe out of the region around the nation's capital. The other indian tribes were more than happy to meet and ally someone who had superior force of arms.

There are places in Georgia where lines of trees delineated the borders of the Cherokee nation and the Creek nation. My uncles used to tell me about finding arrowheads around them. There are regions in other places where tribes and clans regularly fought over prime hunting land to the point that "ownership" changed hands regularly.

The Aztecs had managed to piss off every tribe around them. When the Spanish showed up the other tribes were more than willing to trade conquerors that had to cross an ocean with conquerors that were next door.

I guess my point is this. There was no Native American nation. There were a collection of small nations, tribes, and clans each with it's own history, it's own likes, it's own enemies, and it's own hatreds. They traded, they fought, they enslaved, and did everything to each other that the tribes that had gunpowder did later.

The thing is the tribe that has gunpowder, domesticated livestock, and metallurgy is just about impossible to stop.