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[–] MaybeNaught@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Wait a sec, wasn't the majority of that land in the western states claimed by New Spain and then Mexico? How is the maker of this map qualifying "land of native nations"?

[–] Saurok@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There were people there before New Spain and Mexico claimed the land. I imagine they're qualifying it using something like the map I linked.

[–] edel@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

The lands you are probably referring was the Mexican Cession (most of the US western lands now). That cession happened after the Mexican war that ended in the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo signed in 1848. So the map mostly accurately reflects that as US territory in 1850.

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 week ago

They did not control everything. New Spain claimed a territory from Anchorage to the Philippines to Georgia.