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Cake day: June 4th, 2023

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  • Yes; they’re the ones that survived.

    Where I grew up, the “local tribe” had been migratory slave traders who expanded into the area shortly before Europeans showed up. They then proceeded to sign a treaty granting them the whole area, including parts where they had never actually settled.

    Unlike the other tribes in the area to whom ownership was a foreign concept, they not only understood what was going on, but figured out how to profit from it. So they now have massive treaty lands that had been managed by a different nation for thousands of years prior to European settlement.