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: Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
2017-03-05 13:27:00

Elizabeth Barrette
ysabetwordsmith
2017-03-05 13:27:00

Mood: busy

The Louisiana Purchase

... wasn't a real estate deal. It was an agreement between empires about who got to commit genocide in a given area, without challenge from other empires. The legal repercussions of this continue today, as for example, using violent force at Standing Rock to trample people's rights yet again.

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March 6 2017, 07:35:47 UTC 4 years ago

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You are quite right. Most people don't think about the fact that these lands were already owned and occupied by people.
You are also right that it wasn't a real estate deal. What was sold was the water tributory rights (or something to that effect). Lewis and Clark were sent out to discover just how far it extended into the interior of North America.
Napoleon also got a huge chunk of change with which to keep making mischief over in Europe. Louisiana was chicken feed compared to Europe so far as he was concerned.
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