You realize that "kick indigenous people off their land and make it a park" and "kick indigenous people off their land and make it a strip mine" are not the only two options, right?
Yeah, because they were evil settler colonialist shits. That's literally been my point this whole time. Doing a genocide to create national parks is a Bad Thing, not a good thing like you claimed. "Everyone else was doing it too" doesn't somehow make it good.
You realize that "kick indigenous people off their land and make it a park" and "kick indigenous people off their land and make it a strip mine" are not the only two options, right?
Sure. I do.
Turn of the century American Presidents did not.
Yeah, because they were evil settler colonialist shits. That's literally been my point this whole time. Doing a genocide to create national parks is a Bad Thing, not a good thing like you claimed. "Everyone else was doing it too" doesn't somehow make it good.