Back then the ideological split inside american settlers was between actively killing all natives or putting them into reservations to left them naturally die off over time - as they were "evolutionary obsolete". In fact the bourgeois revolution of the american landlords was started because the British tried to limit american settler expansion and the expansion of slavery into Creek and Chickasaw lands.

The idea of not killing off natives was never present in any large capacity in the early united states.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Didn’t Mexico own a lot of that land in the Southwest?

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[–] MaybeNaught@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (8 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"?

[–] edel@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks 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.

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