Is there a square inch of this country that wasn't occupied by "Native Americans"?

There is absolutely NO way to right the wrongs committed over the millennia of human existence, and what for? The people wronged have long since been gone. Liberals are not known for coherent thinking.

I looked up and found the article you are refering two. As of now it is just mount rushmore and and it coudl lead to more land being given back to the idians that was taken in the sioux wars that included the dakotas and colodard and other parts in the area

But I don't see this country completly colapsing as a result of this

The first nation's occupied basically everything

if we go back to the same period in time

what is now Istanbul was a Greek city called Constantinople.

Then 2000 years ago the Middle East and southren Europe was rulled by the Roman Empire

should we give all of that territory to Italy?

Greece?

The Empire State Building.

Liberals are busy rewriting history, as always. Native Americans never claimed to "own" America. They had no concept of borders. They lived in separate tribes, often at war with each other, separated by huge expanses of no man's land. In South Dakota, where I grew up, they gave the Black Hills to a tribe that had never even lived there, out of some sort of appeasement. Now they're getting rich from the gold mining, when Native Americans never even valued gold because they were stone age people. It's ridiculous.

Before you start blaming the "liberal left", you had better start by reading the news article first.

No, there wasn't a square inch not occupied by Native Americans. That's why THEY are Native Americans.

No, we are NOT handing over Mount Rushmore over to the local tribes. This was what an official of the United Nations said that the United States should do, and that was give up the Black Hills area. The United States government and the Obama Administration said NO such thing.

Here is the article:

U.N. Official James Anaya has spent time in the United States analyzing the rights of indigenous peoples and researching suggested ways to reconcile with Native Americans.

Included in his report, which was unveiled in Geneva on Friday, is the suggestion that American needs to give the Black Hills back to the Native American tribes that occupied the land before settlers arrived.

For those unfamiliar with the geography of South Dakota, the Black Hills happen to include Mount Rushmore and the Crazy Horse Memorial, which is still under construction. The Associated Press writes that:

“Anaya said land restoration would help bring about reconciliation. He named the Black Hills as an example. He said restoring to indigenous people what they have a legitimate claim to can be done in a way that is not divisive “so that the Black Hills, for example, isn’t just a reminder of the subordination and domination of indigenous peoples in that country.

“The Black Hills, home to Mount Rushmore, are public land but are considered sacred by the Sioux tribes. The Sioux have refused to accept money awarded in a 1980 U.S. Supreme Court decision and have sought return of the land. The Black Hills and other lands were set aside for the Sioux in an 1868 treaty. But Congress passed a law in 1877 taking the land.”

In his statement at the U.N. human rights office in Geneva on Friday, Anaya stated:

“I have heard stories that make evident the profound hurt that indigenous peoples continue to feel because of the history of oppression they have faced. Securing the rights of indigenous peoples to their lands is of central importance to indigenous peoples’ socioeconomic development, self-determination, and cultural integrity. … Continued efforts to resolve, clarify, and strengthen the protection of indigenous lands, resources, and sacred sites should be made.”

James Anaya spent 12 days in the U.S. on his fact-finding mission, and will release a report later this year that includes his full set of recommendations regarding reconciliation with Native Americans.

There were many tribes, we agree. But this was a vast land, and there were many miles that did not have an indian sitting on it. We also blame ourselves for their demise, however, let us not forget that Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, were all involved with the movement or destruction of indigenous peoples.

The level of ignorance amongst the people who post here is ridiculous.

Has anyone actually read the article......you know, the one you didn't post as a source for this nonsense question?

Anything to keep up the stupid libs vs cons game that has turned American politics into a three ring circus.

I know of one. A valley in western Colorado that the Utes considered cursed and did not step into it.

90% of it was unoccupied.

It's a fact that hunter-gatherer societies require about 10-30 times more land to survive than industrialized societies because they can only take what the land produces. Farming improves their averages, but not by much.

(Why do you think after 1000 years of breeding and filling up the land they only had a population of a few million, but today the US easily sustains 330 million?)