Let's not forget, and I can say this having Creek on one side and Cherokee and Algonquin on the other side of my family, that there was constant war between the tribes just as there was constant war between the countries of Europe. The tribes could hold land as long as they were strong enough too. So there was no 'ancestral land' as the tribes were is constant flux pushing each other south or west etc. There were misunderstandings by both whites and reds. It took several generations of mixing to even begin to understand each other. Like Branson said it was a cultural problem. By the way we were offered 5 acres in OK when the res was broken up. 5 acres 3 foot wide as my Daddy tells it.
