La Gueta Micaela asked:


You say that we came as legal ones…..if you want to consider the atrocities committed to the North American Indians as our coming here legal do so……The Indian did not have the concept of owning land…….The saw land as on loan by mother nature. Mother nature owned the land they did not. So when the White Man came requesting to buy land the Indian so much wanted to share all of the bounty of the land with the white man……The white man tricked the Indians into entering into written contracts of land purchase…….lands of hundreds of acres purchased with little in exchange…..was not money…….Beaver pelts, deer antlers….beads…etc were the purchasing items. The Indians not understanding the concept of a man owning land……assumed that they were giving the white man the same rights as they had to hunt fish and camp …. The white man saw the Indian as stupid and dumb and fraudulently acquired his lands….. so don’t say we came here as legal…. we came as thieves.

DURAND