FL Gov. Ron DeSantis said it's not true that 'the United States was built on stolen land.' Historians said DeSantis' characterization is wrong.
The Facebook post included an image of a sign that read:"No one is illegal on stolen land." Hernández-Mats did not respond to specific questions about the image. The post was shared at a time when U.S.We reached out to historians of Native and non-Native descent. All of them said it is well documented that the U.S. acquired Native American land through dubious treaties and, at times, forcefully confiscated ancestral territories to bolster the country's expansion.
"As a general statement, yes, the United States stole land from Native Americans," said Philip Deloria, a Native American history professor at Harvard University."Parents that go to school board meetings" and question the curriculum are being"flagged by the Department of Justice and the FBI for attending a meeting."Sometimes the U.S. and Native American tribes struck treaties that defined boundaries and determined land sale prices and forms of compensation.
The Sioux Agreement of 1877 is an example of the U.S. acquiring land from Native Americans through fraudulent practices and treaty violations.the Black Hills, a 7-million-acre South Dakota mountain range, as part of the Great Sioux Reservation. It set the land"apart for the absolute and undisturbed use and occupation" of the Sioux, a Native American tribe.
An image captured in 1868 shows U.S. Army Gen. William T. Sherman and Sioux leaders at Fort Laramie, Wyoming, signing a peace treaty that recognized the Black Hills as part of the Great Sioux Reservation. Its terms disintegrated after U.S. officials sought to annex the land, rumored to have gold. The event formed the basis for a 1980 Supreme Court ruling that found the U.S. had taken the tribal lands illegally.
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