RE: Please explain this "replacement theory" to me

Buffalo NY

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The first flaw in your theory is that there was such a thing as a "Native Nation". The natives never settled any lands. They were wanderers, hunters and gatherers, not a society. There was no claim to any land because there were no settlements, no organized form of government, no military, no organized society. If you visit a reservation today, not much has changed. Sure there are a few permanent structures, but for the most part they live in run down mobile homes and travel to and from reservations without settling for any length of time in one place. The land that became the Americas was settled by people with organization and technology as well as a form of government and an organized military. Those militaries were armed with advanced technology that natives had never learned to develop. The land was free for the taking since there were no structures to indicate that anyone had claimed ownership to the land. When wild tribes returned to an area they had once raped and pillaged for anything they could use, they found the land had now been permanently claimed. They were, of course, upset, but had never developed any form of written language to prove that they had any rights to the land. They were not replaced. An organized society now established ownership of the lands natives had once raped and pillaged then moved on from. The second flaw: "and if you could do it while packing your bags to go back to whatever country your ancestors illegally came here from, that would be great." The English and Italians who came to what would be known as the Americas came here legally. They sailed across the ocean to vacant lands to which no society had any claim. Through organized societal norms they laid stake to these empty soils. They did force some of our ancestors to come with them to serve their needs, but we are free now to leave if we do not like the situation we are in. We are no longer owned as property and can travel freely back to our lands of origin. But I digress. We are speaking about vacant lands that were free for the taking. The settlers who arrived in America from England and Italy did encounter some wild tribes of unorganized, unarmed, and uncivil humans who tried to rape and pillage what did not belong to them. They were fought off and eventually some of the more intelligent among them learned the ways of organized society and even learned the languages of the property owners in America. In return they were able to work out deals that allowed them to live in certain areas and not have to follow the laws of the rightful landowners. Because they could not be tamed, they were saved from the enslavement other tribes from other lands had been subjected to by the English and Italian settlers of America. At no time since has any tribal Native been able to show deed nor title to any land that the English and Italians settled upon.