What's your point? [/b][/quote]His point is, I think, that we "acquired" some of our states by invading Indian (or, to be politically correct, Native American) territory, and pushing them farther to the West coast.

Which is not entirely accurate.

If I'm not mistaken, after nearly killing all of them we made treaties with those who we left alive, herded them onto reservations in every direction (not only westward), and then, when we discovered in some cases that the land we had given them had value, uprooted them and herded them onto different reservations.

His point about naming many of our states after some of the Native American people that once inhabited those particular lands (such as the Dakotas, for example) was, I believe, to point out a certain irony there.

If your "What's your point?" question really means "What's your point in posting that?", and not "What is the point in your post?" (there is a difference), then my answer would be that there was no more of a point in posting that than there was in any of the other posts in this thread which did not address the three questions posed by the originator of the topic:

1- How many states are there?

2- What about Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, and all of the USA territory in the Pacific?

3- Are the people in the USA happy with this federal system of states?

That would include irrelevent posts by several others, most notably exgigirl, whose "love it or leave it" post apparently was not worthy of your taking exception to, as well as don illuminati's.