The theft of Native Americans' land, in one animated map

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Interesting map; thanks for posting.

As for the responses, well, all land is 'stolen', if you like, even in the Old World. Ownership of most land in England 'transfered' to a small group of disreputable francophone maniacs after 1066, for instance. Ownership of most land held by neither the crown nor private landowners was routinely 'stolen' from common ownership from the 12th century onwards and accelerated at a sickening pace - from the perspective of this prole - after 1604. In the twentieth century, much privately owned land was 'stolen' by the state for military purposes. Or to put it more succinctly - and note that I don't agree with the political sentiment behind this - La propriété, c'est le vol!

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Besides, at least whitey in America had the decency to cheat the locals unfair and oblong; Down Under it was decreed that they didn't even own the land in the first place and so all was Terra nullius.