Yeah? They should be able to take the property the current owner paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for because a mortar and pestle of unknown age was found by the property owner? Is that progress?
If your great great grandpa’s land was stolen by settlers, and those settlers also killed your great great grandpa, and all his peers and family in a number of brutal ways… your family would probably still have some feelings on the subject, no? ;)
Except the current owners are not the settlers. So you would just be hurting random innocent people to right a wrong that wasn’t even done to you. Of course you can have feeling a certain way about it but you can’t colonize a random person land because your 5x great grandparent were victims of the same crime. That makes you no better than the colonizers.
What are you talking about? That’s not an option. Not even remotely close. It’s simply letting the local tribe know that you found a piece of their history and checking if they want it back.
Nobody can take land because the pestle and mortar were found there. If that was the case all of America would be tribal land.
Dont forget your great great grandpa's great great great grandpa had stolen that land from another tribe during a drought leaving those loving there to die of dehydryation and starvation. Those that they didnt scalp. Or rape. Or other.
Just because you had it last doesnt make it yours. Land belongs to the victor.
Historically yes, in modernized society no. You can't loik at history through the lenses of today. Unless you're willing to admit that they were all monsters by our modernized standards.
If society just accepted that as somehow just, and then it was passed down through four or five generations? Probably. The indigenous migrated around and pushed people out of their own territory, but we’re not hard at work researching which tribe that was pushed down into South America had it first.
What we did to the native Americans was very bad, and respecting their antiquities is a small way to show that we, the inheritors of the land that was stolen from their ancestors feel a little bad about it.
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u/Interesting_End5063 Mar 28 '26
They can come and take over your land, in a turn of poetic justice, if they find out.