'Rugged individualism? What an lazy-minded cliche! Sorry to interrupt that ridiculously false narrative but the white invaders relied on their weaponry and collective capacity for deci, along with the diseases they deliberately spread amongst the Indigenous peoples, to occupy, take over and 'settle' the country. More truth fully to substitute that self-congraturlaroty notion. of 'rugged individualism' with 'contemptible sociopathy.' to exploit and destroy in the name of profiteering.