Col. Nelson Miles was right. The Lakota were not babes in the woods!

Col. Nelson Miles: Chief Sitting Bull, the proposition that you were a peaceable people before the appearance of the white man is the most fanciful legend of all. You were killing each other for hundreds of moons before the first white stepped foot on this continent. You conquered those tribes, lusting for their game and their lands, just as we have now conquered you for no less noble a cause."

This is a fact that the Lakota, the Shawnee, the Apache, Cherokee, Iroquis and other tribes were no better then the White man. There were idyllic tribes that hunted and fished and just did not want nothing but to be left alone. These were the prey of the more warrlike tribes who raided their villages for booty. But their luck had run out. So mistakes were made. Treaties? the treaty of Versailles led to WW2. Treaties are mere pieces of paper with smiley faces watermarked on them. Even today you can sign a contract and break it for the most insipid reasons.

The Indians concept that they were victims was merely sour grapes that the Great Father apparently favored these palefaces. And that the Indian own concept of Manifest Destiny, they they also had in their various forms, was kaput.

But lets stop the blame game. Blacks sold Blacks to Whites because they were spoils of war and White people did not venture into the African Heartland. The slaves were brought to them where they had docked their slave ships by the tribe that had conquered the soon to be slaves. Whites would go in, but only the Black natives could show them were they could find possible villages that could be enslaved. No White person in his right mind, even with a machine gun would go into the unknown brush of the African Continent.

It the White man should have gone back where he came from then the Indians need to grab the first boat across the Bering Straits where they migrated from as the Asiatic looks attest to.