All that had taken centuries to develop was gone in a relative blink of an eye. The children are taken to be reeducated, the people are put in strange homelands they have no relation with and the value and belief systems that sustained them are slowly eroded. The alcohol introduced into our society as a weapon led to 2 generations of children with Alcohol Fetal Syndrome, to which there is no cure or even effective treatment. The civilzations, nations have been fractured and the people left without a foundation to hold them, a value system to guide them. As a 3rd generation survivor, I still don't understand the society around me.
Native peoples are quite literally in worse jeopardy today than at the time of the invasion.
But it isn't come fast and it isn't coming easy, and we may not survive the effort. Simply, it worked and it worked well for us. The compelling need is quite seriously that of survival. We still feel the rhythms of our land and the call of our ancestors and the call of our Grandfathers. I can't explain some of this in words.