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From the earliest contact between North American Indians
and white European settlers, the Europeans held the upper hand. Almost
unremittingly, the Europeans imposed their idea of private ownership of
land on the Native Americans, obtaining it from them by purchase,
stealth and war. Virtually every Indian tribe in North America found its
contacts with white settlers painful, if not fatal, and few Indians
trusted or respected, much less loved, the white men and women they
knew.
One exception to this generalization was Solomon Bibo, a white trader who won the trust and affection of the Acoma
Pueblo Indians of New Mexico. In 1888, "Don Solomono," as he was known
to the Acomas, became governor of the Acoma Pueblo, the equivalent of
chief of the tribe. Remarkably, the Acomas asked the United States to
recognize Bibo as their leader. Even more remarkable is that Bibo was a
Jew.