For those who have the settler mentality, there is always going to be some sort of what would appear to be a reasonable reason as to why those who have the guns, as well as those who make and interpret the laws, are thus entitled to take land away from native peoples, often violently, and typically without due process Indeed, in the United States, we find that Manifest Destiny was pretty much the template for those that were our leaders to go about the business of making this country in the image of those that led such, and to thereby do what was considered necessary, to remove forcibly, or through any other means, so necessary, fair or foul, those that stood in the way of that Manifest Destiny.
So then, when it came to Native Americans, a decision was reached at the highest echelons of governmental power that the business of America was to remove, in one way or another, that which wasn’t going to be able to be successfully absorbed into America, which thereby meant that Native Americans would perpetually be holding the short end of the stick, and whatever a treaty did or did not say, or promises made, was all a sideshow, because the only result that the Native Americans were going to get was the result that they got, which was to become, more or less, an irrelevancy, with perhaps in this present day, some modest regret, by the American governance, that they cheated them.
One should never underestimate a government and the men representing that government that were on a sacred mission, and thereby were driven to have that mission succeed, because a government and the men fixated upon such were going to have what they had to have, which essentially meant providing no quarter for those who were considered to be un-American and that stood in the way of that Manifest Destiny and the progress of the people of this the United States of America.
So too, to make things more seamless, it became de rigueur that Native Americans didn’t have any preexisting right to the land that had been exclusively theirs for generations, but rather the right of the land was only legitimately held in the hand of those that considered themselves to be more civilized, more advanced, and with plenty of armaments to prove the legitimacy of their case, for they considered themselves destined to take what was there for the taking.
This meant that here in the United States of America, history began when the white settler man arrived, and that at the behest of the British colonization of America, this land was the land of the white man, signifying that the Native American had no rights that the white man need respect, which was forcefully impressed upon Native Americans, again and again. So that, right or wrong, this land was the white man’s land, for the history of America began with the discovery of America by the Europeans, done for not only the glory of those European states, but also eventually further justified as God’s Manifest Destiny.