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The book looks unfamiliar and interesting.

I recently read "The Undiscovered Country" and its story of the westward migration by the colonists. The focus anchors on some particular people, such as Daniel Boone and Kit Carson.

It is undoubtedly true that the white people treated the natives horribly. Embarrassing, really, with complete disregard for treaties and agreements and all that.

Yet, it is also true that the natives were complete human beings with territorial beliefs and characteristics similar to whites. That meant fighting with each other over land and resources, migrating from one place to another or defending what they had.

When I read or hear about one of those stupid virtue-signaling "land acknowledgments" I want to ask who had the land before the last people you acknowledged?

When someone says we are a nation of immigrants except for the natives, I wonder how long your family line has to be here to lose the immigrant label. The tribes that populated what is now the American southwest arrived there between 500-1000 years ago. Not exactly ancient Greece or China. After the Norsemen and the Anglo-Saxons reached England and overwhelmed the natives.

My first ancestors here arrived in the 1700s, and my wife's in the 1600s. Is a modern Apache descended from immigrants?