The Myth of Stolen Land
I grow tired of seeing this Leftist non-sense cry about “stolen land.” There is no such thing as stolen land. Land, territory, property, whatever you want to call it cannot be stolen. Unless you are going out with a shovel every night to take some of your neighbor’s yard.
Stolen? No. Land can be gifted, bought, traded, or conquered. But never stolen. Those are the only ways land changes ownership. And is exactly what took place in the Americas.
The various Indian tribes waged war against one another for centuries before the first European settlers ever reached the shores. In those times “tribal land” changed hands a multitude of times. By right of conquest, with the spoils going to the victor.
The European settlers used the methods of buying, trading, and conquest to gain ownership of the lands on which they forged new nations. Where the Indian tribes cheated or swindled in these buying and trading deals? The answer to that is possibly but that doesn’t mean it was stolen. Know the terms and negotiate better.
In addition to buying and trading, conquest was used for vast majority of the land to change ownership by force of war. This isn’t stealing, this is conquest. A method of gaining land ownership since Biblical times.
Today these tribes have reservations. Land that was gifted to them. Some tribes, being savvy businessmen have purchased additional land making their reservations larger over the years. Did they cheat and swindle the sellers? The answer to that is again probably. It happens all the time. Again though, the land is not being stolen even if the buy is cheated or swindled.
There are cases where there are inter tribal disputes as to who owns what part of the reservation. These are settled in court under law. But sometimes still at gun point in a few cases. That’s conquest again if you aren’t paying attention.
So to say “none one is illegal on stolen land” or any other such non-sense about “stolen land” is just false. We do not live of on stolen land, no body does anywhere. The land has either been gifted, bought, traded, or conquered.
If you want land you must use one of those methods to get it.
