There are many different ways I can relate/connect with the people and the land. Although, I cannot relate/connect to many things that indigenous America due to the reason being that I don't have many friendships with people that are indigenous. What I can say is that we Mexicans can relate with indigenous people is that the US took land from us. 😞
In the lesson How We Got Our Borders , the indigenous people got their land taken by the western expansion for the reason being that of manifest destiny. Although, the US did take land from Mexico, it was a bit different on how they did it. The president of that era ( James Polk) sent troops to area that was neither land of US or Mexico to provoke Mexico into a war. Later, the US ended up winning and the land of California was bought by the US for 15 million dollars. That is how I can relate towards indigenous people. |