Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

I was not aware that any "native" Americans claimed to not own anything, especially not the Apaches. They routinely took ownership of other people and their lands, and were regarded as being amongst the most savage and heartless of tribes, even amongst native americans. Certainly, there were more peaceful tribes, but they loathed tribes like the Apaches. They were stone-age people who lived a brutish exsistence full of inter-tribal warfare and that is all there is to the story. If they had develeloped metalworking and gunpowder and sailed to Europe in the 8th century, there is no reason to believe that we would have recieved any greater degree of mercy. That's just how things were back then. The myth of the noble savage is just that, a myth.

That is not to say that I approve of the way that the native Americans were treated. In truth, I find their treatment deploreable, even to this day, but they are note and were never the peaceful, earth-loving, harmonious people that popular culture tends to portray them as being.
It is one thing to use every part of the buffalo because you revere its' spirit and have a bond with nature, it is quite another to revere the buffalo and use every part of it because you are a starving and primitive person who doesn't know where his next meal is coming from.

At best, this lawsuit is a misguided attempt to restore a false cultural identity. At worst it is just another example of man's desire to force others to serve his interests.

edit- not a rebuttal of any kind, Steve, just an extension of the argument from my perspective.