As most educated people know, the major diseases that have swept through the world began in Asia. There is a proximity of pig and humans that seems to lead to adaptation to humanity, and animal pathogens move to humans in that contact.
When the Europeans came to America in the 700 AD period, the North American Continent was becoming over populated. Lots of people think those pine trees are lovely, but in fact, they don't support animal protein that Humans can eat. Further, the trees were shoulder to shoulder from the east coast to points beyond the Mississippi. Not a lot of food in those forests.. and you don't live in the forest when the trees are shoulder to shoulder.
The Indians had no way to deal with the forests.. and while they slashed and burned in some cases, generally they did not have the tools to do that. Metals were simply not available to do that and so.. the forests grew thicker and heavier.
Europeans came, and began clearing the lands. The Asian pathogen's began infecting the American Indians, and they began to demise in numbers even as they continued their constant wars in North America. The Europeans saved a whole lot of Indians as they cleared the trees, and established farms. Starvation stalked the Indian Tribes every year until farming methods were adopted. With food, and with metals, the Indians began to do much better, but they preferred to assimilate with the Europeans rather than maintain their hunter gathering processes.. and they did. They did, and their ancestors are producing on miles, and miles, and miles of crop land, and doing far, far better.
West of the Mississippi, things were far worse. They were fighting the Spanish who wanted slaves.. not friends, and while they were winning, the African diseases they were bringing to the new world were terribly effective in stopping population expansion of the Indian Tribes. But the Spanish did not attempt to treat that problem.. they wanted that problem and if the Indians lived, them made better slaves. People's like the Apache figured it out.. and ran the Spanish out of the area that was to become the United States.
But when the Northern Europeans arrived in the West, the major tribes were very, very busy with a war between the tribes. Hunting lands were growing scarce.. food was not that easy to find.. the Indians were not.. NOT friends of the earth at all. (People in the Suburbs of major cities think that is the case.. you have to be a first settler to know it is BULL!)
Wars began and ended... trouble every where in the west. But the tribes did a good job of killing each other off back there, and one farmer family in the Middle of Texas wound up doing very well in spite of the very savvy Comanche Tribe. In the end, there were 2,000 Northern Europeans and 10,000 first settlers, and the first settlers decided they would far rather farm and eat than hold on to hunting grounds that almost everyone used at the serious risk of losing their lives.
This dolt read a comic book and he thought it was real. It is not. The United States was very difficult to deal with. One thousand settlers went down the Shenandoah River, and five of them were still alive three years later. If a tree didn't fall on them.. a snake nailed them.. but the Indians didn't have much to do with the settlers at all. We can be very proud of our history. The blood of those fifth wave settlers is on every inch of land from sea to shinning sea.
God Bless America. No.. it wasn't perfect. Perfect belongs to the Lord. But in the doing, and in the end, it was good, and our country is absolutely worth fighting for, and hard.
NO AMNESTY. No birthright citizenship.
