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Well that's a massive goal-post move. "As peoples migrated to the Americas" includes a hell of a lot more migrants than "the original immigrants". Are you stipulating then that Apaches are every bit as much "immigrant"/"non-indigenous"/"invader"-y as English-Americans?Who did the original immigrants from Asia displace? No one as far as I can tell.Why do you believe something so Eurocentric? Did some history class teach you that people crossed the Bering land bridge 13,000 years ago, and Europeans arrived 500 years ago, and in the intervening 12,500 years the people of the Americas were all peace pipes and potlatches? Beringian Americans stole land, committed genocide and enslaved people of other ethnic groups, same as Europeans. On top of all the displacing of one another the descendants of the earliest entrants carried out, people migrated from Asia into Alaska during at least three time periods. The ancestors of Na-Dene people migrated to the Americas perhaps 8000 years ago and displaced the local inhabitants; and some 4000 years ago the ancestors of Eskimos arrived and displaced Na-Dene people in turn.The difference seems to be that as peoples migrated to the Americas, there were no other people here to displace.... In the most technical and unimportant way, the Cherokee are immigrants. So is everyone who isn't an indigenous central African. ...
This is VASTLY different than what Europeans did in the Americas ...
People are people. Welcome to the "damned human race".As you wrote, various populations in the Americas behaved much the same as Europeans (and Asians and Africans) did all of those years ago: invasions, wars, enslavement, etc.
Although as near as I can tell, no other culture practiced slavery in such abominable ways as was carried out in North America.
Oh for the love of god! Why on earth would you believe something so counterfactual? Learn some world history. Every male Spartan was expected to murder a slave as a standard rite of manhood.
Who said it does? Your fear that somebody might make a bad argument from actual history is no excuse for making up false history.That does not mean that it was ok for Europeans to come to the Americas and exterminate the people they found here. It does not mean that it was ok for them to purchase human beings as livestock and use them as such.