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The Louisiana Purchase: Not a Purchase

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The Blackfeet's History

The first treaty was formed after the Louisiana purchase that affected land from Louisiana territory, right? And it just kind of went on from there. I think the Blackfeet famously lost 12 million acres and were given no money at all. They weren't exactly treated like royalty by the French or the Spanish,. But they weren't forced off of their land en masse like they were once America owned the Louisiana territory.

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