Quote from: TDoS on Jan 23, 2024, 07:42 PMAmerican Indians were migrating out of Western Canada and headed down ultimately to the American Southwest

Do you know which tribes?

FYI I do not idolize or denigrate the character of the indigenous.  Some are wise and good in their own way.  And some like the horsemen on the steppes of Asia through the ages have been nothing less than satanic. 

I have roots that settled in no mans land between the Sioux and the Ojibwe.  Nobody from either tribe was allowed to kill anybody in this bit of land and my ancestor was also left alone under their rules.  He trapped, started a sawmill, and of course had a homestead.  He trapped extra game leaving it in in his traps for local Indians to eat as he made his rounds.  They could not afford steel traps of their own.

My family let indians hunt on 'their' land when other settlers were trying to starve them out.  They were Christian people who knew the natives were here first and that the only way for them to eat was to hunt.  Live and let live.  In their minds they had no right to stop this hunting.  When the Minnesota Indian wars started one of my ancestors had to be taken from his farm by force because he said he had nothing to fear from the Indians and that he was their friend.  A posse from town rode out to fetch him.

Turned out everybody was right.  The Sioux warriors who rode in were not local.  They killed every white man they met.  They did not ask the local Sioux who should be left alone.