War is Nature
An article by Ryan Dulaney called "Confronting the Stolen Land Narrative" is about a different perspective that clashes with the written history of the American colonization. This article explains the differences of men and how they view war.
The article follows the theme of "land cannot be stolen, only lost. It is either conquered or defended" (Dulaney). This claim while true, blows the written American history out of the water. Yes, it was a brutal battle to which many natives were killed, but war is nature. The article has examples of how the young men of many cultures were raised around this time. They were raised on war stories where simple family men were the villains because they were not glorious, natives were raised with a fighting mentality. It is natural male instinct to conquer and gain, this has been shown through thousands of mythologies, and historical figures in ancient Greece and Rome. The economic gain, status, and other spoils were taught to be irresistible. They were taught a young and glorious death was better than a long prosperous, peaceful one.
One factor still stood unnoticed by all men, nature. All plants compete for light, all animals kill for their territory, and the earth keeps turning. All of the colonies that were established from war, all tribes that practiced warfare, and all historic war figures were eventually destroyed by nature. If they were killed, then their bodies were reclaimed by the soil and worms. Their structures lost forever in dense foliage that they once sprung from. This in itself is an example that land is never fully owned by anyone but by mother nature. If the bank doesn't repo it, or it is taken in a bloody battle, nature will always be waiting to reclaim what is rightfully hers.
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