Steve: Comparing the American Indians to the Jewish RETURN to their ancestral homeland does not work for fairly obvious reasons. The Europeans who invaded North America killing Indians and seizing their land did not formerly live there, had not built a temple, the center of their religion which had stood there TWICE for about 500 years each time. The Europeans had not been reading and holding as holy a scripture that told them that the land had been given to them with exact borders by their God and toasted every year "Next year in Jerusalem!" The Europeans did not still speak the ancient language of the inhabitants from 3300 yrs ago until 2000 yrs ago. You aren't able to find ancient European artifacts just about everywhere all over the North American continent. The Europeans had not previously named all of the areas thousands of years ago, only to have them renamed by invaders. No European had ever had ancestors who had been banished from the American continent. And no Europeans had been living in North America for the past two-thousand years despite pogroms, massacres, and the quite regular terrorist attacks maintaining a continuace presence because they believed it was their land given to them by their God.