““the original Americans were undoubtedly better off before our European forebears arrived at their shores. And if there were still some final holdouts, like the Arrow People, who refused to join the rest of the world, didn’t they have the right to be left alone, to live the way they and their ancestors always had? Of course, there were plenty of people who didn’t think so: officials who believed Possuelo was denying the natives the “right” to assimilation; gold prospectors who claimed to be bringing the “benefits of civilization””
