Jefferson bought Louisiana without consulting the Indigenous nations who lived there

Evidence

In 1803, the Jefferson administration, without consulting any affected Indigenous nation, purchased the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon Bonaparte. Louisiana comprised 828,000 square miles, and its addition doubled the size of the United States. The territory encompassed all or part of multiple Indigenous nations, including the Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Crow, Pawnee, Osage, and Comanche, among other peoples of the bison. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 227

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s stated purpose of learning the Indigenous side of US land history; the purchase is usually told purely as a European diplomatic story. — connects to: Unacknowledged wars against Indigenous peoples preceded global US total war — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 37; Johnson v. McIntosh held that mere discovery gave European governments title to Indigenous lands — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 501; European colonization triggered demographic collapse and forced removal that shattered existing Indigenous societies — The Social Consequences of Colonialism (+2 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 227

Broader Connections

• US founders designed westward expansion to seize Indigenous land #exemplifies (0.85)