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Spanish soldiers are given stolen Chumash land in California as an award.

1781

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As the early United States begins to emerge, European colonization continues to expand on the western half of the continent. Spanish soldiers are rewarded for fighting on behalf of the Spanish Crown with stolen Indigenous land.