So this idea just kinda popped into my head today:
Was there ever any discussion of sending off the Native peoples of the United States onto one enormous reservation somewhere else (Africa perhaps?) instead of killing, robbing, and eventually partitioning them?
The proud natives of the continent had a deep connection with their land and would surely have never gone for this quietly without some sort of combination reward/punishment for going or refusing to go, respectively. Incentive ideas are up in the air too, I have no clue about that one.
If there was never any concept of this, let's say there was and discuss the effects of a Native American state someplace else. (Trying to think like a typical 19th Century American bigot, I thought of Liberia as a candidate. Thinking that way is much harder than it appears, by the way.)
I think you get the picture. In my head I'm seeing this awesome Afro-Apache war force on the "dark continent" modernizing and blah, blah, blah... but I'm looking for the plausible.
Anyone?
Was there ever any discussion of sending off the Native peoples of the United States onto one enormous reservation somewhere else (Africa perhaps?) instead of killing, robbing, and eventually partitioning them?
The proud natives of the continent had a deep connection with their land and would surely have never gone for this quietly without some sort of combination reward/punishment for going or refusing to go, respectively. Incentive ideas are up in the air too, I have no clue about that one.
If there was never any concept of this, let's say there was and discuss the effects of a Native American state someplace else. (Trying to think like a typical 19th Century American bigot, I thought of Liberia as a candidate. Thinking that way is much harder than it appears, by the way.)
I think you get the picture. In my head I'm seeing this awesome Afro-Apache war force on the "dark continent" modernizing and blah, blah, blah... but I'm looking for the plausible.
Anyone?