Wouldn't the land in such a case belong to the natives? In many if not most cases, land was acquired either with the consent of the natives or was purchased from them. I know that fact flies in the face of the current politically-correct view of the situation, but that's still largely the way it happened from the very beginning. The very first attempt to establish a colony in the New World in the late 1500's was at Roanoke, and the very first thing they did was establish peaceful relations with the nearby Croatan tribe.
More fantasy.
No it was not the first attempt by any means.
The first known attempts were by the Vikings, after that the Spanish colonies in the Carribean and Florida.
The facts are quite obvious at this point are they not? About 95% of all native ethnic groups in the Americas are now extinct, a few tribes line in North America on reservations, they represent a very small protion of the origional tribes though, most of which were killed off one way or another.
The truth is that the Natives in most places were friendly at first, but after being taken advantage of they typically turned to violence. The Croatans are now extinct in fact, so little good it did them to be freindly.
If totally "fair" treatment were given to the Natives then the United States would not even exist today.
The majority of land in the US was NOT purchased from Indians, it was taken by force, fraud, or threat of force. Even most of the "sales" of land were sales where the Natives had no choice, it was either sign this contract of sale and get something in return, or we will simply kill you all.
When sales did take place, how does that still even figure into a "libertarian" view? How does the "chief" of the tribe have the right to make a contract that will then result in him getting something in exchange , the rest of the people got nohting and they may have not agreed to the exchange.
Take the purchase of Long Island for example. A few trinkets worth virtually nothing were traded for land because the Natives didn't really understand what it was they were doing and they were initially amazed by something new, which after a few days they realized was pretty much worthless. Again you also have the fact that Natvies had never used alcohol before and were easy to get drunk, which whites typically did and then made deals with them. How exactly is that fair? They "agreed" to sell someting, while incoherent because they have a chemical suceptability to alcohol. Yeah, that's real "libertarian" values for you.
Obviously the Natives got a totally raw deal on virtually everything. If they didn't they would still be here.
The fact of the matter is that all of human civilization and all progress has come at the expense of the majority of people's liberties.
The modern world would not exist without infringement on people's liberties. The only way for a truely libertarian society to exist is one where there is no human interaction at all, and even then you would have to deal with the natural world, which would infrince on your liberties, like lions trying to eat you and such.
