SCOTUS just gave half of Oklahoma back to the Indians?

[FoxtArt]

I think required learning in U.S. curriculum should be to see an animated map of geographic political borders as they have changed over the last 4,000 years.

It really gives perspective both to the fragility of our current nation and perspective on the frivolity of arguing who did what or violated whatever 200 years ago. As a matter of sociology, you'd be hard pressed to find an territorial agreement that was truly honored for more than a century in modern human history. And just look how the world borders have changed in the course of our short lives - everything from USSR, eastern Europe, Africa, parts of south America, Asia, etc. constantly shifting around.

How many people from all of those areas have a valid argument of "Well, this dirt used to be drawn inside a geopolitical border of Zaire, I don't recognize the governance of the DRC and demand you give it back to Zaire!" That's not to say it doesn't suck, but if people want a Utopia, they're going to have to rewrite our genetic code using CRISPR because it's quite obvious that people aren't capable of respecting imaginary lines for terribly long, no matter who they are.

ETA: If we get stuck arguing about ancient historical claims too, it becomes more frivolous in the macro because where do you draw a line. E.g. why does Ute have a claim over Fremont (whoever the hell they actually are?). Should we try to track down genetic ancestors of Fremont Indians and give them the Ute reservations? And so on, and so forth. If we're relying on historical claims of title to dirt after the loss of political boundaries, pragmatically nobody is going to win a claim to anything.