Had the resident Aborigines been more proactive in governing "their" land and interacting with settlers, instead of shunning contact and NOT showing strength and intention, things may have worked out differently.
As settlers crowded the coasts and "Indians" moved, rather than standing ground and making some attempt at assimilation, the settlers did the natural thing; they TOOK POSSESSION . No one was there arguing for the Indian, not even the Indian. It was completely Darwinian. Give the Indians a Darwin Award.
Now look at world history, the wars, the territorial boundaries that changed, the people who moved across the face of the Earth and assimilated as they went.
Nothing was stolen from the Indians, the Indians owned nothing to begin with and now they have Casinos. That's a fine lot better than happened to the conquered of the rest of the world, throughout history. A good thing we came along too! Indians had already hunted several species to extinction, Giant ground sloths, Camels and they were working the Mastodons when shit got cold. The forest fires before we came weren't always set by lightning; it was tribal entertainment to set a pine afire and watch the pretty colored fire of an evening. This went wrong more than once.
Nope, not going to buy into that popular misconception that Indians got anything stolen. Lucky they weren't enslaved. I figure they got a hell of a bargain, when you consider the rest of the world.
If we still had that mindset, Mexico would be NEXT! So get off your regurgitative high horse and apply some brainpower to your statement of misguided outrage. You just sound silly. Indians are doing pretty damn well for a conquered race and the amount of effort that they have ever applied to anything. They simply lost an evolutionary battle in their history and are currently adapting to the best of their abilities.
So you can guess where the U.S. Negroes are on a sympathy chart as well..... We might as well feel bad for the European immigrants that were downtrodden as they immigrated in the 1800s, at least they TRIED to get ahead and didn't blame their problems on EVERYBODY ELSE!!! (the hallmark of a loser)