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Where I live, the people before the Europeans got here, have claimed all of the land. I don't say indigenous as I don't believe they were\are. I believe that just like the Europeans, they migrated here. So I don't believe they can lay claim to the land.
Yes they were lied to by the government of the day. But so was my Great Grandfather. He was told by a rep of the Canadian government that Canada was basically Hawaii but with better soil. He sold everything he owned and came to the Canadian Prairies penniless ... to be greeted by a -40 winter. Does a hundred years give you "more" claim? Two hundred? I am\was a 4th generation farmer but have no mineral rights to land I busted my azz to pay for and yet someone who just ... is? Has more rights? I have had it with the PC crap. I see people getting rich just because their ancestors "MAY" have shit in in a spot of forest. I am sure mine did as well. But I don't see mine getting rich.

Sorry, this was prompted by the utterance of a "Native" who stated he didn't "have" to work as he "owned" all the land! I just gritted my teeth and walked away.

Didnt the us take a lot of territory from mexico though?

Under U.S. President John Tyler, The Republic of Texas was admitted to the Union on March 1, 1845. It became the 28th state later that year under President James K. Polk. The Mexican government had long warned that annexation meant war with the United States, and had never recognized the Republic of Texas as an independent state. Britain and France, which both recognized the independence of Texas, repeatedly tried to dissuade Mexico from declaring war against its neighbor. British efforts to mediate were fruitless in part because additional political disputes (particularly the Oregon boundary dispute) arose between Mexico, Britain and the United States. Before the outbreak of hostilities, on November 10, 1845, the United States president James K. Polk had sent negotiator John Slidell to Mexico to offer the country around $5 million for the territory of Nuevo México, and up to $40 million for Alta California.[7] Mexican members of government had simply dismissed Slidell, refusing to even meet with him[8] because they were greatly insulted by such an offer. This is because earlier that year Mexico had broken off diplomatic relations with the United States over the annexation of Texas, which Mexico had warned would be considered an act of war if passed by the US Congress. Mexico's basis for this was partly a condition of the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819 — which politically independent Mexico had inherited — in which the US had relinquished all claims to Mexican territory, ad infinitum.[9] After this snub Polk, an expansionist, himself took insult[8] and actively sought to provoke war with Mexico.[10][11]

After the Thornton Affair, a skirmish between Mexican and American troops which took place on disputed territory near the Rio Grande (see the Treaties of Velasco), President Polk signed a declaration of war into effect on May 13, 1846, almost two months before the Mexican congress was forced to formally declare war on July 1.

The war in Mexico's Northern territories largely ended on January 13, 1847, with the signing of the Treaty of Cahuenga. Mexico's subsequent defeat left them with little choice but to accept the United States' demands, or risk total annexation of Mexico.[8][12] Nicholas Trist, Chief Clerk of the State Department under President Polk, negotiated the treaty with the Mexican delegation, despite having been recalled by the president.[13] Notwithstanding that the treaty had been negotiated against his instructions, given its favorable terms President Polk passed it on to the Senate.[13]

Fact is that if you go back far enough everybody came from somewhere else or were forced at some point to move from wherever they are indegenouse from. EVERYBODY. We can look at recent history and make some assumptions about the way NA's were treated but in many ways I agree with OP.

So I say LAND REFORM for everybody. If your grandparents had land given to them by the government it should be redivided and given to those who have none.

I live on a rez that was opened up to white homesteaders who were flat out given 167 ac. Now thier grandkids are stinking rich cattle ranchers and are controlling the politics just because their grandparents were given some land. It is totally hypocracy to not redistribute their lands to more new arrivals. Whats good for the goose....?

All that being said I really don't believe in land ownership. I mean think about it. What an absurd idea, that we can own a piece of the earth? You certainly can't take it with you and ALL warfare can be traced to the idea of "them" and "us" based primarily on imaginary lines on the ground. Land ownership is a means of control, primarily used by the ruling elite to further subject those without to more bs.

The native people in this country and Canada got a sh*t deal...and that's continuing to this day.
I think the reason it makes so many non-Natives so unhappy is they realize all the f*cked up things their ancestors did to get what they have..and deep down it bothers them.
Or maybe they are just d*cks.

they were forced to sell their land for unfair prices or inadequate prices

I think the reason it makes so many non-Natives so unhappy is they realize all the f*cked up things their ancestors did to get what they have..and deep down it bothers them.

Then the government comes in and finds some folks they could force into signing their documents and say that these few spoke for all? So now who is buying into the ideas of land ownership and what is theirs to sign away except those that the Anglo governments assigned as "chiefs"?

Since the Natives in Canada ( just like in the US) weren't paid a fair price for their land and were either forcibly removed or killed when they wouldn't sell....you don't see where they might feel CHEATED by the settlers that came along and STOLE what was theirs?
When you take something you aren't given...you stole it.
Just FYI.

And why would have to "grit your teeth" when somebody says something that you don't agree with?
You have anger issues or something?