Greed and fear are part of the human condition. Every piece of land on this planet exchanged hands a hundred times under those terms so I wonder how far you want to go back.
The native Americans also had their tribal wars although that seems to be memory holed by liberals.
Sure. That still doesn't make it right, or mean that we can't even acknowledge the theft.
There are plenty of cases where the US just flat out broke treaties, or bribed one chief to sell off his whole tribe's land when it wasn't even clear he had that authority. Even if he did, there's a moral issue about taking the land that way. And if none of those strategies worked, sometimes the settlers would just kill everyone in the indigenous village: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnadenhutten_massacre
Manhattan Beach, CA stole a piece of land from a black family through eminent domain in the early 20th Century. They just recently made things right and came to a settlement with the family. Better late than never.
