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<blockquote data-quote="Overpaid Union Thug" data-source="post: 213464" data-attributes="member: 198"><p>It doesn't just apply to the Native Americans that once lived in what is now the United Sates. They were all but driven out of this area. Canada, Mexico, and the rest of the continent's "Indians" were also slowly conquered by Europeans. We all wouldn't be alive if it hadn't happened but it's still a sad thing. I'd like to have been a fly on the wall during the American invasion, and it was an invasion (no matter what the warped history books in our schools say) Mexican territory that led to the Mexican/American War. I would have also like to have been a fly on the wall during the times when the Spanish were first comming ashore on this continent. That was historical on two fronts. One: it was the beginning of the European expansion into this region. Two: it was the beginning of the degradation of the Native Americans at the hands of those Europeans. I'm not proud that my ancestors did this to them but I wouldn't be alive today, nor would this country exist, if they hadn't. One can't help but wonder what things would be like today had our ancestors tried to co-exist with the Natives instead of conquering them. Oh well. We are here now and it is a good thing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Overpaid Union Thug, post: 213464, member: 198"] It doesn't just apply to the Native Americans that once lived in what is now the United Sates. They were all but driven out of this area. Canada, Mexico, and the rest of the continent's "Indians" were also slowly conquered by Europeans. We all wouldn't be alive if it hadn't happened but it's still a sad thing. I'd like to have been a fly on the wall during the American invasion, and it was an invasion (no matter what the warped history books in our schools say) Mexican territory that led to the Mexican/American War. I would have also like to have been a fly on the wall during the times when the Spanish were first comming ashore on this continent. That was historical on two fronts. One: it was the beginning of the European expansion into this region. Two: it was the beginning of the degradation of the Native Americans at the hands of those Europeans. I'm not proud that my ancestors did this to them but I wouldn't be alive today, nor would this country exist, if they hadn't. One can't help but wonder what things would be like today had our ancestors tried to co-exist with the Natives instead of conquering them. Oh well. We are here now and it is a good thing. [/QUOTE]
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