PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agoThat's an, uh, extremely suspect phrasing there, school textbooklemmy.worldimagemessage-square133linkfedilinkarrow-up11.16Karrow-down15
arrow-up11.16Karrow-down1imageThat's an, uh, extremely suspect phrasing there, school textbooklemmy.worldPugJesus@lemmy.worldM to A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square133linkfedilink
minus-squarejol@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down1·7 days agoSettler: I’ll give you these piles of bills for this land, so you’ll be rich. Native: what are these green papers
minus-squarephdepressed@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·7 days agoIt probably wasn’t green at the time since ya know the US didn’t exist much less dollar bills and cotton money instead of coinage and various types of paper banknotes.
Settler: I’ll give you these piles of bills for this land, so you’ll be rich.
Native: what are these green papers
It probably wasn’t green at the time since ya know the US didn’t exist much less dollar bills and cotton money instead of coinage and various types of paper banknotes.
Also, this was Canada.