PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to History Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoThat's an, uh, extremely suspect phrasing there, school textbooklemmy.worldimagemessage-square131linkfedilinkarrow-up11.18Karrow-down14
arrow-up11.18Karrow-down1imageThat's an, uh, extremely suspect phrasing there, school textbooklemmy.worldPugJesus@lemmy.worldM to History Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square131linkfedilink
minus-squarejol@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down1·2 months 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-down1·2 months 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.