Vox
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For those who in support of the natives in this situation, what are you going to think when the day comes when the law gives back large parts of Mississippi, Florida, Georgia and Alabama to the Choctaw, Seminole, Chickasaw, Creek and Cherokee people?
The removal of these people from the lands, and their displacement to Oklahama on the "Trail of Tears" was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court back in 1832, but was openly defied by then President Jackson.
I think most people, me included, can see the terrible injustice in that. But to make amends now would be well nigh impossible without crippling those states.
Um...talk to the elders and make some kind of agreement? One that cannot be BROKEN like the government did to the Native they originally kicked off their own land?
Catch more flies with sugar than you can with vinegar.
I am afraid there is no possibility to guarantee that any agreement won't be broken in the future. The rule of the strongest is still in place even if it is with a smoke screen now.