<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 11:05 AM, William Flynn Wallace <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">You really cannot blame white people for a loss of language and religion, can you?</span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Of course. You think they gave that up on their own?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Have you been to the Western USA?  Except for the far West, arable land is rare for everyone.</span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Guess what? Before we arrived they weren't settled in these uninhabitable lands. They settled elsewhere or were nomadic. The Cherokee were in the eastern US.</div><div><br></div><div>I know our public schools don't do a good job of covering our treatment of natives, for obvious reasons, but I really thought most adults were aware of this. Start with:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawes_Act">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawes_Act</a><br></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_assimilation_of_Native_Americans">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_assimilation_of_Native_Americans</a><br></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Indian_Policy">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Indian_Policy</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>-Dave</div></div></div></div>