> "When we could steal land from the people who were originally on that land"
That's every single society ever. This has been the civilizational algorithm. It predates our species.
That same tactic is alive and well today.
That's every single society ever. This has been the civilizational algorithm. It predates our species.
That same tactic is alive and well today.
People will really say this and then still be mad when I want to marry just a couple of my cousins
History was full of violence.
Em. First, numbers of "native ancestry" are almost all self-reported which has more to do with self-identified culture than genetic ancestry.
Second, trying to argue through the use current numbers of native ancestry is nonsensical given the US has been an outlier in terms of immigration for a very long time making it impossible to compare against. For goodness sake, around a tenth of the population has been foreign born for the better part of two centuries which has had a dramatic effect on ancestry (both genetic and self-reported).
That was, what, a 95% extermination? Native Americans probably committed 100% exterminations e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorset_culture