RL> Let's face it -- if the various Native nations had united against
RL> the European settlers instead of remaining Balkanized, they wouldn't
RL> have lost their lands and so many of their people.
I dunno. In a way I certainly agree... we could have kicked European butt if 
we'd banded together and set out to from the outset. But by the time the
Nations realized the nature of the threat, they had been so decimated and 
disorganized by disease, and so divided by politics, that the war was already 
decided.
RL> What's important today is that we work toward preventing this kind
RL> of thing from happening again and to restore as much of what has
RL> been lost via treaty violations as possible.
With this I agree 100%. We can't alter the past, but we can shape the future.
--- GEcho 1.00
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