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Dutch settlers purchased Manhattan from the indigenous Americans for beads and other goods valued at 60 guilders (about $1,000 today).
At best that's a myth, at worst it's whitewashed history to hide a genocide. The Lenape didn't have a concept of land ownership, they didn't believe a person could own the earth, so they couldn't have had anything to sell.
Hell, if somebody offered to give me $1000 for the Grand Canyon, I'd congratulate him on his new canyon.
Agreed, thanks for clarifying.
Eitherway it was still a good deal.
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