why do americans believe thay have a right to the land of the usa?

Question

wasnt it the native americans who lived their first? just because they stole it doesnt make it theirs i think they should give it back.

Answer 1

I'm sorry you have to recieve so many racist and culturally ignorant posts to a legitimate question. It is so infuriating to read all that cultural ignorance. That answers your question though, just read the responses you get. See how outrightly racist they are and see how many are full of historical inaccuracies. Those people are the ones that believe they have a right to the land, that everything that happened is okay. Until we can spread more education then we'll have to deal with these people, these infuriating people.

Answer 2

First, I don't believe that "man" can own land, the land is much more eternal than man and will be here long after man is gone. Inheritance is just the rich man's way of keeping his "magnificence" alive through his issue.

Probably it's because of the law originally enacted by the Magna Charta is 1214, that's where many of our land ownership laws come from.

I also believe that the Native Americans got a bad deal when Spanish, European and Scandinavian invaders came to these shores; however I must point out that it has now been discovered through the bones of Kennewick Man and through Norse artifacts that Europeans were on the North American Continent very shortly after as the Mongols who came over on the land bridge and became the "Native American" Indian. Kennewick Man is dated to 9,000 years ago and the Norse artifacts dated almost 12,000 years ago, long before Europe was even Europe.

Are you saying that the first person on a Continent "owns" it for all time? Did you know that the only land not "purchased" from the Indians was some land out West? Did you also realize that the Native Americans had no concept of land ownership? Your argument is weak and lacks no adult basis. Good luck in law school.

Answer 3

The land was not stolen. It was taken through conquest. This is the time honored way in which territory is acquired. The Indians were not native to the United States, they also immigrated to the land. The simple reality is that if you cannot hold your possessions against invaders you are destined to be conquered. The Indians have no inherent right to the land, nor for that matter do Americans of the current day if they cannot protect those holdings. I doubt if the Indians of today are concerned with taking the land back, but if they are they can always use the same time honored method if they have sufficient numbers and strategy.

Answer 4

3 Things

1) The North American continent was not a united nation of Indian tribes. There were thousands of independent and warring tribes scattered everywhere. Many of these tribes were nomadic.

2) Throw away your Michael Eisener Disney movies, throw away your "revised" history text books and read actual case histories of what really happened. The settlers paid the tribes they came into contact BIG BUCKS for land. They paid these Indians what they wanted and the Indian tribes that were doing the deals sold the land.

3) Using your same logic, the people living in Mexico need to give their land back to the Indians who were there originally. As I understand it, the indigenous indians in Mexico are the most discriminated people in that country.

Answer 5

No actually there has been one constant rule throughout all of human existence. Ye who wins it militarily keeps it. This law is enforced by the simple fact that if you lost you can ***** but you cant fight and get it back because you were the less fit of the 2 warring nations. We took it militarillly and made a million times more of this land in a couple hundred years than the indians did since they first arrived here.

This is why I say to the illegal immegrants, if you want believe in re-conquista and want to take back california and mexico, than take it militarilly, i am ready.

Answer 6

Let's assume we follow your suggestion to make amends and right all wrong committed in the last 500 years and give the U.S. back to the Native Americans. Do you have a place for the 301+ million Americans who are here now to go and places for them to live? I think you need a plan "B".

Answer 7

I'll start worrying about it when you point to one group of people who have had the scrap of dirt they are living on for more than a few thousand years. Just because Europeans had the biggest chunk of land when the music stopped and the Industrial Revolution stopped most of the fighting over food and good food production lands, is no reason to blame them (us). There's sufficient evidence to know that conflict over fertile lands was prevelant all over the world. The only reason we aren't fighting anymore (5% of the worlds population as opposed to 50-60% currently in immininant danger of actual war) is because the planet isn't saturated for human food production yet, because our tech level is growing faster than our population.

Let's be honest, if every culture had to leave land it had occupied through violence, there wouldn't be anywhere left to send people.

Answer 8

well which native group do we give it to? natives constantly fought each other and stole each others land. say you wanted to give back pennsylvania, you could find 12 different tribes that probably lived on that land at one point or another. and then we would have to give back canada to the inuits, austria back to the aboriginal peoples, the middle east to the kurds, africa to the africans, europe back to whoever the heck lived there before them and latin america back to the mayas, incas, aztects, etc. some of these tribes are actually extict, so what then? basically 97% of the world would be left with no land

Answer 9

Is that pronounced oosah?

If you push the shift button you can get capital letters.Of course you have to know where they go....

My dad(actually my stepfather)was Kiowa.He fought for this country in World War II.He was an old style Conservative who loved this country with all his heart.He thought people who said these kinds of things were,to be polite,idiots and maybe just a little retarded.

Just like he thought Native Americans who complained about the names of sports teams were the same.

So,I think his views are probably the more valid.

Answer 10

Because we are the one paying taxes, working the jobs, and buying the houses! If a Native American wants to buy a quarter acre of land and build a house on it, there are government grants that give them the upper hand on anyone. It is well past time to put a rest to this, dont you think??

Answer 11

Well they took the lands be defeating Native Americans in wars....

Or in some cases trading land for beads and whiskey..

You can also argue that there were no orginal Native Americans, seeing that they migrated from other parts of the world.

Just depends on how far back in history, you want to go.