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Lasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-07-07 08:37 AM
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46. Where did the Mexicans get their land?
I'm pretty sure indigenous peoples of the area didn't speak Spainish. Shouldn't the southern Mexican states be returned to their rightful owners, the Mayans? Or the Aztecs? No wait, weren't the Olmec there first? Or was that somebody else? And what to do with all those Spainish speaking Mexicans? Back to Spain with every one of them, I guess. Unless Spain took the land from someone else.

And so the US couldn't possibly give Texas to anybody else but the rightful owners, the Comanches. But weren't the Apaches in south Texas because the Comanches had taken their territory to the north in the 1670s? And what about the Kiowa? They were pushed into Oklahoma and Arkansas by the invading Cheyennes and Sioux, who had been displaced from their lands in the great lakes regions by the Ojibwa tribes. But the Comanches already occupied Oklahoma and Arkansas so the Kiwas fought to take it from them. OK, so let's give Michigan to the Cheyennes and Sioux and not those invading Ojibwa - unless there was somebody else there before the Cheyennes and Sioux moved in. Oklahoma to the Kiowa, no the Comanches or whoever was there before them.

Oh forget it. Let's just find Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble and give everything to them. That's the only people who didn't move onto land that was already occupied by someone else. Then none of the rest of us will have anywhere to go so we can all just shoot ourselves in the head.
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