<story><title>The Treaty That Forced the Cherokee People from Their Homelands Goes on View</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-american-indian/2019/04/24/treaty-new-echota/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RickJWagner</author><text>I wonder what things would be like if the European settlers hadn&amp;#x27;t displaced the indigenous Americans.   (If the American Indian way of life evolved and was still predominant today.)&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s an interesting mental exercise.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>williamstein</author><text>There are still millions of native Americans today, some full blood.  Go visit the rez.  Their culture is beautiful.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Treaty That Forced the Cherokee People from Their Homelands Goes on View</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-american-indian/2019/04/24/treaty-new-echota/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RickJWagner</author><text>I wonder what things would be like if the European settlers hadn&amp;#x27;t displaced the indigenous Americans.   (If the American Indian way of life evolved and was still predominant today.)&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s an interesting mental exercise.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>protomyth</author><text>That would require the Columbian Exchange of diseases to have been a non-event.  That massive population loss opened up the continent.&lt;p&gt;Also, American Indian tribes are not a monolith so the contrast would be interesting.  Given the migration of some tribes, I would expect a lot more tribal wars.</text></comment>