INDIANS GOT WHAT THEY DESERVED?

Did Native Americans really get what they deserved, or is this the same old condemnation Christians have been demonizing Native Culture with since they got off the Mayflower? Could it be that Satan hates Native Americans so much that he has perpetuated this lie and has done everything he can to destroy them? Was the holocost that destroyed an estimated twenty million Native Americans and stripped them of their way of life the judgement of God? Recently, a friend of mine emailed me with this question? Dear Lockley: I recently told a fellow Christian about what happened at the Celilo meeting. I told him how the whites took away from the Indians their fishing by building that dam in the Dalles http://www.blogger.com/blogger.gblogID=11247868&pli=1#editor/target=post;postID=738577809952324579;onPublishedMenu=trafficsourcesstats;onClosedMenu=trafficsourcesstats;postNum=5;src=postname. He replied with Deuteronomy 28 and said that is how God deals with people groups and nations. So he thinks that the Indians got what they deserved and that it was God's will for the whites to take over. You have done more research on this than I have. How would you answer that person? My reply: The statement made by this Christian pretty well reflects the opinion formulated by the majority church here in the United States; Early American Christians were enamored with the vision of, "A City Set On a Hill" and manifested into the doctrine of "Manifest Destiny". This doctrine basically says, in the providence of God's will and His higher purpose, is for Christian civilization to progress and possess the land occupied by ungodly heathen." This includes the displacement of prior and unchristian civilizations. Early Anglo Christians used this belief as grounds to justify their actions and to kill and displace the Original Inhabitants of the land without guilt or fear of reprocussion. They based their belief on scriptures such as Deutoronomy 28, Leviticus 26, believing that the vast empty continent of America was their promised land, "a land flowing with milk and honey." The American church today has become complacent with the thought that it was God's will. But the question we should ask this young man is; what gives Anglo Americans the legitimacy to conquer and occupy the land of the Native Americans in the New Testament? Where did Jesus tell His disciples to go and take the land, or to kill the ones they were sent to preach the gospel of the Kingdom?