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Explanation: For those of you who are not aware of European colonial history in the Americas, the First Nations 'agreed' to move only at gunpoint - when, of course, they were not shot outright and agreements eschewed completely. The phrasing here makes it sound much less like ethnic cleansing, when, you know, it was ethnic cleansing.
The phrasing and also that tiny drawing near the headline.
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.