An American analogy to Israel and Palestine

Let us say that the United States Government admitted the error of its ways on the Black Hills.

Let us ALSO say, though, that it knew the Sioux were no newer to the Black Hills than Lewis and Clark going up the Missouri.

So, it gave joint custody to the Sioux (Lakota, Dakota) and the Crow.

Let us say that the US Government kept a form of trusteeship for a few years of transition.

Let us then say that this was not acceptable to the Sioux. That Sioux leader Crazy Bull, considered a terrorist by the US Government, put a bomb in the Roosevelt Inn. The government expedited its pullout.

After the Sioux attacked the Crow, let us say that the Arapaho, Shoshone and Pawnee rallied to the side of the Crow. And that the, say, Arapaho eventually annexed the Crow land.

Twenty years later, the Arapaho, after first thinking better, joined the Shoshone, Pawnee and Winnebagos in a new war against the Sioux. And lost the Crow lands to the Sioux.

Fifty years later, the Crow were fighting for their independence from the Sioux.

Let us then say that some Sioux accused all non-Sioux and non-Crow of Crow-splaining.

That's where we're at.

For those who don't get it, substitute Great Britain and League of Nations Palestine mandate for the US and work forward.