I'm going to go out on a limb here...

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34. There are several points in your post that raise more questions

in my mind, but to pursue them in detail would derail this thread from the OP topic. I can summarize them by saying that your priorities regarding the boarding schools are lacking some concerns expressed by many Native people that I know. And, as a doctor (according to your profile), you should know that the ability to accurately identify tribal nation origins for children in unmarked graves is dubious at best, and not likely possible.

But the OP is about the I/P issue. Comparisons of the history of Native American vs. Europeans in the Americas with Israelis vs. Palestinians in Palestine are not valid analogies. Europeans were outsiders who colonized the Americas. OTOH, Israelis are not outsiders in Palestine. Descendants of the ancient kingdom of Israel have lived continuously in Palestine for 2600+ years. They are not outsiders.

Ironically, given today's conflicts, there were intermarriages and conversions in the past between Arabs and Jews in Palestine under the rule of the Muslim caliphs and later, the Ottoman Empire. So there are Palestinian Muslims who have some Jewish ancestry and vice versa.

Both groups have a right to be there and to have their own self-governing state.