No, CarolC. I am merely saying that Native Americans have many of the same attributes and foibles of all people. They think their community is special and chosen. They think they deserve to eat the buffalo rather than having the buffalo eat them. They are human, and suffer from the same shortfalls that make Europeans and euro-americans the flawed people we are.

And as to your other assertion, that you don't advocate giving this country back to the Native Americans, that that's just a worn-out old debate trick, what do you call this quote from you?

"I would gladly give this country back to the indigenous people. I don't own any land here, so I don't think my situation would significantly change if the ownership of this country were to be given back to it's earlier inhabitants. And my own thoughts are that they would probably to a hell of a lot better job of running things that the folks we've got doing that now."

So you advocate it when it makes a rhetorical point for you, but you don't advocate it when it makes a rhetorical point for someone else. Good trick, CarolC!