When the Europeans 1st arrived in the New World, its indigenous peoples were still living in the Stone Age. Anything they have beyond that is secondary to contact with the more technologically advanced Europeans. Therefore, the net gain has been theirs. If anyone owes reparations to anyone, it is they who owe us, the descendants of those Europeans who leapfrogged them from their Neolithic existence into the Modern World.
When the Europeans 1st arrived in the New World, its indigenous peoples were still living in the Stone Age. Anything they have beyond that is secondary to contact with the more technologically advanced Europeans. Therefore, the net gain has been theirs. If anyone owes reparations to anyone, it is they who owe us, the descendants of those Europeans who leapfrogged them from their Neolithic existence into the Modern World.
