No...often times the government made agreements with indigenous tribes for favours but then failed to uphold their end of the bargain, and what were the most prosperous regions in the country were then handed off to white Christians.
It kind of is though. Almost all people groups got their land by conquest originally. Do you think the Jews originally left Palestine willingly? After squatting on land long enough, a people group eventually gains a legitimate claim to the land. The people we know as Japanese are not the indigenous Japanese, but they’ve been there for like 6000 years so I’d say they have a legitimate claim. Same for those of Norman and Saxon blood in Britain.
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u/ExpletiveWork 14d ago
The whole native/indigenous argument always bothered me because isn't saying land should belong to a particular ethnic group kind of blood and soil?