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he US should return the land that the UN sits on to the Native Americans.


4 posted on 05/04/2012 7:20:32 PM PDT by Jenny217
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The US should return the land that the UN sits on to the Native Americans.

Great minds think alike.You were posting as I was typing.

10 posted on 05/04/2012 7:24:16 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Unlike Mrs Obama,I've Been Proud Of This Country My *Entire* Life!)
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The King of Spain once owned virtually all of North America and the greater part of South America.

Eventually Philippe I gave much of it away ~ some to his cousins in France, some to his cousins in Scotland, some to other relatives ~ even some for general colonization by whoever wished ~ that's the old core area called VIRGINIA. That stretched from roughly what is now the Pennsylvania/New York border South to South Carolina/Georgia. The line was smudgy down there since that part was already getting carved into Spanish landgrants.

So, how did the Indians deal with this ~ ?

Well, they didn't except the Brits took care to make sure the locals believed they'd been paid for their land. After the Revolution, and a couple of disasters, the US government took care to do that, as did Canada.

Spain never did any of that although they'd pay ransom to the Comanches for kidnapped people. The Comanches didn't own anything anyway ~ they dressed in Western clothes, used firearms and rode horses.

In the end treaties were signed for disposition of all the land and payments were made. Even the Cherokee were paid for their land albeit in a forced sale ~ the government wanted the gold there dug up and put into circulation (monetarism was a big deal back then so that made taking land easier on the conscience I guess).

There are no Indians to whom the US owes any money for land ~ it's been paid. Even the Brits and Canadians made their payments. Spain didn't.

I"d recommend the UNited NATions go see them about it!

While doing that they need to check out the Dutch on this slave thing ~ lots of unpaid bills there.

19 posted on 05/04/2012 7:28:44 PM PDT by muawiyah
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bingo...except this is just the kind of turmol and vullshit this pos wants to get started to tear us apart for his agenda to be dictator for life...well i say bring it on...lets start the rumble


36 posted on 05/04/2012 7:44:38 PM PDT by ldish (Give me Freedom and Liberty or...)
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bingo...except this is just the kind of turmoil and bullshit this pos wants to get started to tear us apart for his agenda to be dictator for life...well i say bring it on...lets start the rumble
37 posted on 05/04/2012 7:45:09 PM PDT by ldish (Give me Freedom and Liberty or...)
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OK but only if we get our beads and trinkets back.


82 posted on 05/04/2012 9:26:27 PM PDT by firebrand
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There you go ! That land in NYC was, after all, once the possession of one or more Native American tribes.


106 posted on 05/04/2012 10:23:27 PM PDT by John Leland 1789
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