"Dave LaCourse" wrote in message
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Dave Snedeker writes:

I would include the
stealing of Indian lands in Oklahoma, and the stealing of the land of
Mexican Americans in Texas.

*And*, the injuns got screwed out of Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, New
Hampshire, New York, sigh, Pennsylvania, New Jersey (why the hell would
injuns
want NJ?), Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, W. Virginia, big sigh, all the
Carolinas, and Florida, Georgia, Alabamer, Louisianer, Mississippi,
Kentucky,
Tenn......getting tired...... make it easy.... *all* of the U.S., Mexico,
Canada, Central America, South America, whew.....and how can we forget the
Caribbean (?).

Ah, gee, we're all furenors aren't we?

To quote Wolfgang. . . "learn to read."

I spoke specifically of Indian lands in Oklahoma, and lands of Mexican
Americans in Texas. In Oklahoma, land set aside as "Indian Territory" as a
part of treaties compensating Indians removed from elsewhere in the U.S.,
were then thrown open for forcible settlement. These Indians at that point
were citizens of the United States. They had been removed from many of the
States you mention, ON CONDITION THAT THEY WOULD GET LANDS IN OKLAHOMA
("INDIAN TERRITORY").

In Texas, deeds and other instruments of ownership documenting Mexican
American land ownership were systematically ignored and destroyed in land
grabs across that State. The Mexican Americans I am speaking of were not
"foreigners, " they were citizens of the Republic of Texas, and later
citizens of the United States.

In both cases we are not talking about stealing that took place centuries
ago, or stealing of property of an enemy. We are talking about stealing
the property of American citizens. There are many fat cats in both of these
States sitting on stolen lands. I do not think that the government or the
courts will forever prevent the eventual squaring of these accounts.

And I have not even gotten into the stealing of Native American lands by the
U.S. Navy in more recent times, or the stealing of revenues from Indian oil
properties which the U.S. Government refuses to this day to account for.

Dave