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territories, from the British colonial period through the mid-18th century:

Since colonial days the story had been the same: new lands for settlement had been procured from the Indian tribes by purchase, or by conquest if the asking price were too high. The time-honored practice had been to ply the chiefs with whiskey and when they were drunk enough to present them with treaties to sign that conveyed more thousands of acres of their hunting

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