How can Whites justify taking over land that rightfully belongs to the indigenous Native American Indians?

Answer 1

There's nothing to justify. We didn't do it. Our long dead ancestors did. If you feel like going to the local graveyard to ask, help yourself.

Answer 2

There is no such thing as 'indigenous Native American Indians'.
Humans are not indigenous to this part of North America. They emmigrated here from South America and over what are now the Bering straits when it was connected to the Siberian mainland.

Beyond that, when a sophisticated, technologically advanced culture comes into contact with with one which is less advanced and less able to defend itself, and the land is desireable, the more powerful nation takes that land. This is what happens all over the globe and has happened since man first decided to walk on the land instead of swing from trees. If you're going to focus on this particular instance and ignore all the others, you've missed the point and the boat.

Answer 3

First the white man accidentally brought all of his diseases to the New World. (Starting with Cortes in 1520 bringing smallpox to the Aztecs) Those diseases spread out and killed somewhere between 50% and 90% of the Native Americans. When the white man got into colonization, he found a land pretty much empty of people. What few people were left had mainly fallen back to a hunting, gathering type of society. The white man felt he was taking unused land for his farms and the few wandering tribes had no property rights.

Now, imagine if the New World had had all of the diseases and Cortes had taken them back to the Old World. Imagine how history would have changed. Read up on the Black Death and extrapolate.

Answer 4

First of all European caucasians are not 'white' any more than Native American Indians are 'red'.

The European explorers who came to the north American continent from Spain, France, England, Sweden, and others, had a government which did not recognize the laws or government of the indigenous people.

The indigenous peoples of north America had no single unified governmental system and were a collection of loose warring bands of tribes and villages without any recognizable laws or government institutions. These native peoples fought, captured, raped, tortured, scalped, and executed each other. The European colonization and conquest of north America was all perfectly legal.

In the beginning of European history, over a thousand years ago the Europeans also started off as a loose collection of tribes and villages which the Romans did not recognize, and Rome colonized Britain, Gaul (France), Spain, and Germania (Germany). These Europeans who encountered a modern Roman army were primitive tribesmen and villagers who wore animal skins and feathers and their laws went unrecognized by the Romans. About two thousands years later, with Rome a distant memory, the former European tribesmen and villagers with their advanced civilizations and technology traveled across a vast ocean and treated the indigenous people of North America the way those Europeans were once treated in the past.

If you cannot defend what you have, your way of life will not be legally recognized by a stronger civilization and that is the way it is. The golden rule of history - them that has the (gold) guns makes the rules.

Answer 5

"Whites" ,as you so loosely define the pioneers and pilgrims, who found their way here, to the configuration of matter we have chosen to name America, were physically composed of the exact same physical matter as those who were already here. Every atom of matter is identical, it has simply been arranged in different FORMS by forces that are largely unknown to the general population, but animals and a few human beings know this to be an accurate description of reality. Therefore, it was less a matter of "taking over" the land and more an issue of "enlarging the variety of possibilities." Sentiment, nostalgia, and fear keep us chained to a certain configurations that are pleasing to our tastes. Some one tells us that one form of matter is preferable to another and we believe them and perpetuate the myth that we are separate and that some forms of matter are more valuable than others. This is nonsense. We are all made of of the same stuff. Everything that exists is identical at the most fundamental level. The hierarchies that we impose on this identical matter are constructions. Attachment to a certain configuration , is like the pacifier that a baby sucks for comfort and does not want surrender! We are thoughts seeking form. Let's keep seeking and not stop here.
Try to imagine a world that you would enjoy more, dear, perhaps one in which there are fewer victims?

Answer 6

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Answer 7

It's easy to see with hindsight -- Native Americans underestimated our greed. They were kind-hearted when we had too little food to survive the winter. They accepted blankets from us that carried our diseases. In short, at first, their lack of immunity to our diseases allowed us to take over their abandoned villages and grow enough food to survive.
But wait, there's more. If the many tribes had been united against us or even if no individual with in a tribe had been willing to turn against any other Native American... I would say that I can justify what occurred because Native Americans were naive, too trusting, and too busy fighting their traditional enemies to see the White settlers as a threat. For our part we did a good job of playing them off against each other. We took advantage of their lack of unity and communication.

Answer 8

Your word rightfully is a mistake. There is no such thing. Every group of people that holds land today got that land from another group that was there first. Rightfully is an irrelevant concept when it comes to who occupies land. Study a little history and you will understand.

Answer 9

The reality is that land belongs to no one. The Native Americans took land away from earlier tribes and so on and so on.

One group loses and another wins...there is no rightful justification other than the winner takes all.

Answer 10

See : "Manifest Destiny" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_Destiny

"Manifest Destiny was a phrase that expressed the belief that the United States was destined to expand from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Ocean; it has also been used to advocate for or justify other territorial acquisitions. Advocates of Manifest Destiny believed that expansion was not only good, but that it was obvious ("manifest") and certain ("destiny"). " "Manifest Destiny was an explanation or justification for that expansion and westward movement, or, in some interpretations, an ideology or doctrine which helped to promote the process."

Answer 11

It was called conquest. Before you condemn the whites for doing it, keep in mind that the Mongolians did it to China and the Chinese did it to Tibet and the Angles did it to the native Britons and the Normans did it to the Saxons and the Sioux did it to smaller tribes and the Iroquois did it to smaller tribes on the Atlantic seaboard and the Cheyenne lost and gained lands from their neighbors and the Aztecs did it all over Central America and the Mayans and Incans did it in South America. And it is going on today in Dhafour where one racial group is exterminating another and taking their lands.

It is not new and is not restricted to one culture. Doesn't make it right, but it happens.