Illegal immigrants and land stealing

[Nye Bevan]

3. Some of the land, at least, was purchased as opposed to being "stolen".

The purchase of Staten Island a few decades later has more surviving documentation, including the deed, which says the Dutch traded “10 boxes of shirts, 10 ells of red cloth, 30 pounds of powder, 30 pairs of socks, 2 pieces of duffel, some awls, 10 muskets, 30 kettles, 25 adzes, 10 bars of lead, 50 axes and some knives.” If the Manhattan trade was made with similar goods, the Native Americans got less shafted than legend implies, and received 60 guilders worth of useful equipment and what was high-end technology at the time.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/12657/was-manhattan-really-bought-24

Yes, this seems in retrospect like a very good deal, but so does the Alaska purchase. Should we go back and give Russia more money because we got Alaska on the cheap?