If they want to consider any indigenous population of the Americas they have to go back to whom took from who all the way back to the first indigenous population...because that's how the indian's became an indigenous population and those before them and before them and so on.
Everyone, across the world was in the process of civilization and those that were not civilized, those who had no structure to the area they occupied were pushed aside or assimilated into what we call the western civilized world.

That's history...how else could mankind evolve socially, technically, industrially, etc.
I get the impression from these leftest, it would be just fine if we all lived in Teepees and lived horrible lives at the mercy of nature.

I always counter this with the statement that the term "Indigenous" is a Euro-centric term meaning who ever happened to be in a place when the Europeans arrived.

Alternatively it's biblical based concept that people were created in the places they live. The best current science tells us that we are all immigrants from Africa in a variety of waves.

Outrage! We need Outrage!

How will we get votes if there is no outrage to keep people from thinking, and get out their pitchforks and torches. We need Outrage for the media to control the people.

Worked for the Bolsheviks.

This reminds me of the recent controversy over the land where Mt. Rushmore is located. Speaking of "the Left" owning "big tech" social media, leftist preferences in google searches, etc., try googling Mt. Rushmore - almost all hits you get talk about how "the White Man" STOLE the land from the "indigenous peoples" (the Lakota, in this case). Well, the actual history is a little more complicated than that. See the linked article, written by a Western history author, Tom Correa: (spoiler alert: before the Lakota lived in that area of South Dakota, the Cheyenne lived there, and before them, the Kiowas, before them, the Pawnee, before them, the Crow, and before them, the Arikara, who go all the way back to ca. 1100 AD. Since they had no written language, I assume this was determined by archeologocial evidence.)
http://www.americancowboychronicles.c...

There simply are no "indigenous" Americans.

Everybody in this hemisphere is a tourist, basically.

I once had a Facebrag "Friend" who was (or so I thought,) a fellow advocate of at least liberty - he joined us in protesting a Gore appearance in the NW back in the '90s, and later ran (unsuccessfully,) for mayor of that particular town, on an explicitly Libertarian (not Objectivist) platform, but I gave him my support anyway, even going so far as to sneak onto the grassy knoll between two busy freeway ramps in downtown to jam his yard sign into the ground, for mega-visibility. And then do it the next night, after the local frothing collectivists removed it. 'Went through about six before election day came and went.

Anyhow, this guy also happened to be part of some WA state tribe, which I thought was interesting but not critical - which it was, and wasn't.

So up comes that thing a couple years ago where a bunch of people were bused into North/South Dakota to protest that innocuous pipeline that was unobtrusively traversing their sacred or scared or scarred something-or-other, and this guy (who shall remain unnamed,) casually jettisons his Libertarian... stuff and flops into the tribal side of the tribe vs. reason conflict.

In the midst of some Facebook back-and-forth on the subject, the "I" word came up and I said what I just did above - that nobody here was always here; that everybody here came from somewhere else, meaning the "indigenous" and "aboriginal" pretensions are simply false. (Not, as others have pointed out here, that it would make a difference in any case, absent the concept of property rights.)

To which I got a whole lot of frothing vitriol, then an "Un-Friending." So the human race has a long way to go before its constituents - some of them - will have successfully extricated themselves from toxic group-think.

Even self-styled advocates of liberty.

The Speech Police (left-wing Dems,et al) want to rewrite history. They are History illiterate. They want to perpetuate their own myths through communist-style propaganda. They conjecture that 100% of the American people are uneducated.

These people came from mostly from the middle east. They got to the Americas first is all. Does that entitle them to the land? I don't think so.

The "Speech Police" are nothing but a bunch of nerds who couldn't hold a job out of academia. They have to do things, like meanings of words, to be recognized by their peers to have a meaningful life. Meanwhile, the press who are down the IQ pole fawningly adopt anything that they come up with. Someone needs to put a stop to these nerdlings from destroying our language. This is an area where people with a platform could be of use. Politicians, ministers, teachers plus several more come to mind if they only had the guts.

MEMES UP, N

If these idiots are successful in their endeavors, what will keep us from repeating past mistakes? They want to wipe out any evidence of wrongdoing. Nice try!