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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Native Americans are among the most abused group of US citizens. First their land was taken from them, then their self-sufficient culture was replaced with a welfare culture.
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Well, that's one way of looking at it. OTOH, my non-Indian ancestors probably didn't have land to begin with. While I'm not at all into genealogy, I suspect (from evidence of names &c) that some of them were Irish starved out of their homeland in the 1800s, others might have been Germans escaping landless poverty, if not military enslavement, still others English or French escaping religious persecution. Other folks' ancestors might include Eastern European Jews escaping pogroms, and later Hitler. There weren't really a lot of wealthy, secure European people interested in emigrating to the American wilderness.