Making Deals with the Great Satan

Battle of Fallen Timbers

It's hard to read about the settlement of the United States and not feel a lot of sympathy for the native American population. A rule of thumb you can deduce from their deals with the United States or European powers is one should never enter into a collective agreement. Entrusting the livelihood of a mass of people, like an Indian Tribe, to a handful of people--their chiefs--is always going to look like a class action lawsuit--the attorneys get rich, and the group gets a Hardees Discount coupon for their trouble.

The white people who were settling the frontier, for the most part, lost their collective battles with the Great Satan maybe hundreds or a thousand years prior. The citizen labors under piles of treaties struck by sociopaths and psychopaths long ago.