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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5727667" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>And those natives were divided into about 500 tribes, with many languages and customs, who fought each other over the land they controlled.  The arrival of the Europeans did two things.  It wiped out the majority of Native Americans with introduced diseases and beat the rest in warfare with superior technology.  The Native Americans were often just as brutal in attacking Europeans as the Palestinians were last week attacking Israel.  It's a settled issue, Native Americans are citizens, often with special considerations because of treaties that granted assistance and reserved land in exchange for peace.  The U.S. government often broke those treaties in the past but after Native Americans were given citizenship and access to courts there's very, very little of that today.</p></blockquote><p></p>