I am merely saying that Native Americans have many of the same attributes and foibles of all people.

I agree with this.

They think their community is special and chosen.

I don't know where you get this idea. That certainly hasn't been my experience based on the people of American Indian ancestry I've known. What I have observed is that they like their way, and they prefer it for themselves, but I've never seen or heard any of them try to suggest that their way is any better than anybody else's.

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.

Yes, they have flaws. Some of them may be the same, and some of them may be different. But my point is that I feel more at home with the way their philosophy works than I am with what is considered the norm in European thinking. Just as you may feel more at home in some cultural contexts than in others. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that, and it is my right to decide for myself which cultures I feel the most at home with. You don't get to decide that for me.

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!

You're twisting my words, Nerd. I have never said I think we should give the land that is now the United States back to the Indians. What I have said is that if it were to ever happen, I wouldn't have a problem with it. The fact that you cannot see the difference between these two things is not my fault. But they are entirely different thing nevertheless.

What I did not say: Give the land back to the Indians.

What I did say: if the land ever happened to be given back to the Indians, that wouldn't bother me, personally.

Two different things.