• sourquincelog [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    The USA is still a very young country (in the sense that settlers have only been reaping the land for ~150 years in the entire western half). Each little sliver of opportunity hadn't been snatched up until pretty recently.

    • TimmytheDragon [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      Yeah, in that sense, but native people have been in America for 10k years.

      • nohaybanda [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        But they were stewards of the land, not stripping every last bit of profit from it and leaving wasteland behind.