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Heres what happened in America.
America was a big wide open space. White people came over here. Saw space. Said, gee let's live here. Some Indians lived there too. Enough space for everybody. For a long time, everybody lives together well enough. The 'Indians" didn't own this land. They didn't have a unified nation and they didn't claim the whole united states.
After a number of years, the Americans and the Indians started crowding each other. Over time, many Indians decided to assimilate into western society. More and more pressure was put on the Indians, and both the Americian society and the Indian society were competing ideologically and economically. At a certain point, the Americans and the Indians start killing each other. The Indians lose. Like all people that lose a war, they got royally screwed over at first. Later on, Americans, generally meaning white people, decided that they liked the idea of being generous and nice to everybody. So, they started doing all sorts of things for the 'native' tribes that 'owned' (and many tribes barely had such a concept) certain limited parts of American. No they did not make claims from sea to shining sea, most of the North American landmass was uninhabited. That's why it was called 'wilderness.'
The 'Indians' as you call them, were actually many different tribes that claimed certain parts of the united states. Much of their land by this point they had sold to the Americans. This is hardly stealing. Indians are now Americans or living on nice little government subsidized property, which I pay for through my taxes. Quite frankly, I don't even think they have a right to that money. I've never been one for giving anyone a free ride, but apparently anybody who isn't white deserves some sort of reparation for some sort of evil that 'white people' (and no-one. Yes, there is only one side to the story and white people are unilaterally evil and nobody ever harms white people) did collectively (as a whole somehow) and are responsible for.
That is quite frankly the dementia of a deluded and unrealistic mind. It's a one-sided argument that is entirely unfair to white people or the position they were in. It puts on the descendents of anyone who is white an unfair burden of guilt they neither need nor deserve. Why not laud white people for the good they have done? Enjoy science, which is undoubtably an original invention of western civilization. (The invention of 'science' itself as including the rudiments of scientific theory, scientific epistemology, formalized logic, philosophy of science, formalized rigorous explanation, and rebuttal of authority in reaction to contradicting evidence)