Fact checker blows up one of Ron DeSantis' most bizarre US history claims
Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis received a fact-check on an outlandish claim about United States history that he made at his only debate with Democratic challenger Charlie Crist.
"You have people that are teaching — and actually his running mate has said this in the past — that teaching the United States was built on stolen land," DeSantis said. "That is inappropriate for our schools; it's not true."
PolitiFact, a nonprofit operated by the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida, reached out to the DeSantis campaign for documentation that the statement was not true, but did not receive a response.
"We reached out to historians of Native and non-Native descent. All of them said it is well documented that the U.S. acquired Native American land through dubious treaties and, at times, forcefully confiscated ancestral territories to bolster the country's expansion," PolitiFact reported. "Sometimes the U.S. and Native American tribes struck treaties that defined boundaries and determined land sale prices and forms of compensation. Other times, tribes signed land-ceding agreements under duress."
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There were 500 Nations of Native Americans who settled this land before the first of the white European explorers and settlers came in the late 15th Century. First what was the Caribbean islands in the 16th century, then the actual North American continent not long after.
Damn is Ron DeSantis DUMB! 
That wasn't a side efffect of the indigenous vulnerability to devastating European diseases, like the Smallpox intentionally loaded into blankets and given to early indigenous contacts.
Whatever could account for the mountains of hundreds of thousands of buffalos piled across the plains and loaded into railway cars and sent to Canada to be ground into fertilizer? Could it have been the stated intention to destroy the food and shelter source of so very many Plains indigenous people, as acknowledged?
Buffalo skins stripped away from the slaughtered plains buffalos, after they mowed down hundreds of thousands of them until only 300 were left? They were fully aware, gleefully aware the indigeneous citizens only killed them when needed for food and for the skins used for warmth and covering their homes against the weather.
Thank you, Judi Lynn.
