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<p>It may have been the biggest American Land Grab since the coming of Columbus.</p>
<p>And for those early Spanish-speaking inhabitants of California, for example, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was as good as the countless of Indian Treaties the U.S. issued. In other words, to quote a Native American of the day, “they are not worth the paper they are printed on.”</p>