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4. Yes. If the Indians exhaust every peaceful remedy as blacks...
...in South Africa, and Zimbabwe tried, and if justice is denied, go for it.

By the way, in the US, there was an interesting suit in upstate NY where a tribe sued on a contract that was 150 or more years old and I believe they got their land back, or they got some remedy. IIRC, it was in or arround Salamanca, NY.

So, the fact that the US has a justice system that isn't foreclosed to people because of the color of the skin might make Native Americans not feel the imperative to take up arms the way they did in Zimbabwe in 1980. Even if SA, it was the strikes and just the force of will that brought about a political solution before a violent revolution was required. So, voting rights are another good way to remedy past wrongs. So, now, in Zimbabwe before 1980, were the courts open to black Zimbabweans? Were democratic solutions available? Or where the colonizers much more resistant to justice?

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