Many people who are currently (as of writing this) rioting in Los Angeles are claiming that they want to return the land to its indigenous people. And who are these "indigenous people"? Well, Mexicans, of course! They pretend that Los Angeles belonged to Mexico before it lost it to the United States, and thus the United States "stole" the land from Mexico.
This is completely hilarious because they have absolutely no idea what they are talking about.
The area where current Los Angeles resides was originally inhabited by the Tongva people (who likely invaded the land from an even older civilization, which likely invaded it from an even older civilization and so on and so forth, but that's not here nor there.)
Spain conquered the area and established a settlement there called El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles, which is considered the beginning of the city. This happened in 1781.
Mexico didn't even exist in 1781. Mexico was founded in 1821. Before that, the settlement and the area that would become Los Angeles belonged to Spain.
When Mexico gained independence from Spain in 1821, it did get that area of land alongside, and owned it for a whopping... 27 years.
The ownership of the land was transferred to the United States in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and thus has been part of the United States for 177 years.
So the land first belonged to the Tongva people (and their predecessors) for hundreds of years, then it belonged to Spain for 41 years, then it belonged to Mexico for 27 years, and then it belonged to the United States for 177 years.
But because of that brief (and shortest) ownership in the middle there, it most definitely is "native" Mexican land, somehow, and it belongs to Mexico. Even though Mexico didn't even exist when the settlement that would grow into the city of Los Angeles was established, and three other peoples owned the land for longer than Mexico ever did, two of them before Mexico.
But leftists don't care about the facts. They never care about the facts. They care about one thing, and one thing only: Gaining power in society.
That is literally the only thing they care about. Nothing else. Everything else are just excuses for that one singular goal. Whatever else they profess, it's just to gain power, and can be changed at the drop of a hat, if that helps them gain power even more rapidly. Facts vs. fiction is completely inconsequential in this.
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