> Manhattan was purchased It wasn't purchased from the people who inhabited the island. [0] The dutch created a deed to claim the island, and paid one village

> Manhattan was purchased It wasn't purchased from the people who inhabited the island. [0] The dutch created a deed to claim the island, and paid one village to move to make the deed seem legit. [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amsterdam#1624%E2%80%931664 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amsterdam#1624%E2%80%93166... [1] https://www.americanheritage.com/24-swindle# https://www.americanheritage.com/24-swindle# Claiming that Manhattan was purchased for cheap is similar to claiming that the Louisiana purchase only cost 65¢ per acre. The Louisiana purchase didn't transfer land to the U.S. from the inhabitants, it purchased conquest rights from the other European powers. > for the majority of the area, what the United States bought was the "preemptive" right to obtain Indian lands by treaty or by conquest, to the exclusion of other colonial powers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase