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That's an, uh, extremely suspect phrasing there, school textbook (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

The phrasing and also that tiny drawing near the headline.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Settler: I'll give you these piles of bills for this land, so you'll be rich.

Native: what are these green papers

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It probably wasn't green at the time since ya know the US didn't exist much less dollar bills and cotton money instead of coinage and various types of paper banknotes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Also, this was Canada.

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