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And what happened when that doctrine was ported to America was that they used that doctrine to incrementally take the natives land and started a war in only the span of one generation.

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Americans happily signed treaties with the natives and reneged. The law didn't matter as the law was ignored.

I'm talking about King Phillip's war a century and a half before most of the treaty violation stuff started happening in earnest.

Wasn’t King Philip’s War about a treaty that insisted natives be disarmed?

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