Billie Eilish can be forgiven for being thoughtless — as a pop star, it’s practically part of her job description. 

But her anti-ICE declaration at the Grammys that “no one is illegal on stolen land” — met with rapturous applause — pungently expressed a point of view that has significant support on the left and in academia. 

The sentiment is a distortion of the history of North America, and more than a shot at President Donald Trump’s immigration policy, an attempt to delegitimize the American project at its root.

There is no doubt that we were, at our worst, brutal and duplicitous in our dealings with Native Americans, and that we were a land-hungry people. 

The misapprehension of the simplistic “stolen land” narrative, though, is that, prior to Europeans showing up, peoples in North America had clearly delineated territory with a provenance stretching back into the mists of time.

In fact, all was conflict and flux.

The context for contention between Europeans and Native Americans over land was set, tragically,........

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