Who was the US President when the Louisiana Purchase was completed?

No one owns land. However , when a group of people live on a price of land and care for it , plant crops , hunt on it, raise a family on it , and make it their home it becomes their homeland. It is simply immoral and disrespect to think that because a group of people, such as the American Indians , did not buy their home from a government or any other source , that in return it means it never really was theirs . The American Indians did not want to “ own” their land, they simply wanted to share t with the rest of gods creatures in order to create a life for their families . The harmony of their lifestyle was ended so abruptly and sadly that I believe it should be noted up there with the genocide of the Jews in Germany during World War Two . It truly saddens me that people buy into the whole thanksgiving story and that or children are taught that we came as friends and never ok advantage of these kind , intelligent and deeply spiritual people . I pray that we can somehow come to grips with the reality that it is because of the migration of settlers to America that the dominoes began to fall one by one that led to the ultimate demise of the American Indians .

jennycat Of Lionvale, The native Americans weren't really that peaceful. They fought other tribes and took slaves of opposing tribes

jennycat Of Lionvale, I hate to burst your bubble, but Native Americans were not in harmony with nature ant more than any other humans. Coastal tribes would harvest exorbitant amounts of shellfish, make a pile, and burn it all to show off their abundance to a tribe across the water. Plains tribes, while unjustly robbed of the bison, wrre themselves guilty of killing entire herds and taking only the best animals. As far as sharing the land, they watered with one another over control of the land and the vanquished. The Blackfeet were hunter-gatherers in the Upper Saskatchewan Valley until they acquired horses and muskets from the French. They conquered and brutally subjugated all their neighbors until the Yankees arrived. Imagine for just a moment the horror the Spaniards felt when they witnessed subjugated people being slaughtered in bloody rituals, and even consumed their flesh. I do not excuse what whites did (even thoufh it was realky no different from any other conquering peoples), but to suggest that the Americas were just a hunky dory lovefest before 1492 is naive.

This is a PERFECT example of a complaint I've had for YEARS ! I learned about Thomas Jefferson in grade school U.S History class. Napoleon was talked about years later in "World History". Jefferson and Napoleon were NEVER mentioned in the same sentence. Nobody ever said "While this event was happening (here), that was happening (there). I NEVER would've thought Napoleon and Jefferson were negotiating with each other! .

Smoothest deal in real estate history. Second only to the Alaska deal. Our forefathers were some pretty savvy charachters.

jennycat Of Lionvale, I'm glad you brought this up, but using the phrase "ultimate demise" fails to acknowledge Native Americans living today and contributing to our society.

jennycat Of Lionvale, I must agree that history tends to be skewed to push a certain narrative. The loss of great numbers of American Indians speaks for itself. My husband, of the Apache tribe, recounted stories to me about his ancestors and the Trail of Tears. Heartbreaking.

If I’m correct and given roughly a 2200% inflation increase since 1803, 1 square mile would be $1.22. If that’s correct, I’d buy the better portion of Colorado.

Player #24358685, No faction of humanity has been without fault. That said, we've done far more damage to this world with industrialized fishing, pollution, corruption, in much more significant numbers.

What a bargain!

Player #24358685, regardless of what you say, what was done to Native Americans was wrong. It sounds like you're just trying to justify that.

jennycat Of Lionvale, I agree with most of what you say. However, while some Indian tribes were peaceful many were vicious and routinely murdered neighboring tribes. neighboring r

white settlers joined forces with different tribes British, French, and Spanish. then they pushed west warring against one another as they saw fit .men are animals. we are different now. still animals

Schoolhouse Rock taught me this fact.

ScarredBrain56002, That does not vindicate the utter devastation and horror which was brought upon them by people coming from other parts of this world and basically decimating an entire race of people for territorial gain…🤬

Player #24358685, Couldn't say that better myself, kudos

jennycat Of Lionvale, Native remember when they told us the Native Americans helped the whites farm by using fish as fertilizer....my Cherokee husband says it was just a way to get the bears to raid the gardens

ScarredBrain56002, I understand. However, that was their battle-- not for us to take it from them all. We were just as barbaric.

jennycat Of Lionvale, well Jennycat, I'm afraid your wrong. don't pay your property taxes and someone else could "own" your land in NC.

jennycat Of Lionvale, thank you

Dermoplasm, THANK YOU 😃

jennycat Of Lionvale, Agreeing with all you posted. I'm working on using the term "Indigenous People" since it was colonizers who named the country America and and If my memory serves me correctly they called the people who were already here Indians because then reminded them of Indians from India.

steelworker1957, More than France taking over, he was afraid that Napolian would sell to another country. i.e. Great Britain and join it with Canada

the Louisiana purchase was the best deal this country ever made, mainly b/c they got the best state in the country.

Sandyberry, The reason that he made the purchase was because he was afraid that Neopolian would take over and try to conquer the US states.

Sandyberry, The reason that

technically dinosaur land. they were there first you know. and bacteria before them

Gotta love a man who knows how to grab a bargain, lol 😆.

SpookyStove10, why would anyone dislike what you said. It is the truth.

Player #3225838, lol