You're right I didn't grasp your point. I was having a back-and-forth with someone else and you came in and raised a point that didn't relate to what we were talking about and threw it way off track.
1. They very well may have been savages. How do you know they weren't? They didn't have wars between tribes? What makes you think they were so peaceful and humble? I think thats a huge misconception. THAT is the Disney/textbook version.
Also, they were probably more than anything, nomadic peoples....they werent cemented to one spot. They were probably always on the move, following herds of animals; their riverside dwellings constantly swept away in floods having to always rebuild. Hell, according to the "science", they are asiatic tribes people who got the Americas on foot. So it lends to believe that they were always on the move and never stayed put for too long.
So much for it being "their land".