Eh, some of it. I won’t pretend to be an expert, but I’m pretty sure most American land was acquired by settlers simply marching in with guns and saying “We’re here now”. That’s to say nothing of the countless treaties that were signed and broken.
I don’t exactly think the Osage were contacted about the Louisiana Purchase.
A huge amount of Israel’s land was legally purchased during the late Ottoman era and the later British Mandate. We have plenty of records.
So was the land that the US “bought” off of the indigenous tribes. Doesn’t make it right. Certainly doesn’t justify an ethnic cleansing.
Eh, some of it. I won’t pretend to be an expert, but I’m pretty sure most American land was acquired by settlers simply marching in with guns and saying “We’re here now”. That’s to say nothing of the countless treaties that were signed and broken.
I don’t exactly think the Osage were contacted about the Louisiana Purchase.