Was address the issue of whether the Scots-Irish claim to the land was justified.?

Question

Once through the Cumberland Gap what was the fate of the Scots-Irish? These people were the pioneers whose history we continue to celebrate to this day, but were these pioneers the people that we are led to believe? In seeking land, these people came into immediate and often brutal conflict with Native Americans. Why did they take such a risk and might that risk have somehow been justified, despite the obvious injustice done to the Native American nations?

Answer 1

Read some history:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Removal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_American
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maps_of_American_ancestries