Actually it's Massachusetts that got the land, as in the right to buy the title to the land from the Native Americans in order to sell it. NY got the political control, but not the ability to buy it from the natives and then sell it to settlers. It's funny how in this thread several are talking about killing and war and pushing the Natives away and taking there land- except that's not what the Americans did. For almost all the land- they paid for it, they didn't conquer and take. The Iroquois however- they didn't pay the Shawnee, or the various Algonquin and Souian tribes, they exterminated or drove them out; they're the ones who genocided the Old Northwest before any Americans made it there (that and the diseases, but other than the rare occasions of germ warfare we can't blame the Europeans directly, they seriously didn't know at first; and Malaria and Smallpox were introduced by Blacks, though of course not by their choice). The Iroquois kicked the Cheyenne out of the Northwest, the Cheyenne kicked out previous peoples of the Plains, the Souix then Kicked the Cheyenne out of the Black Hills area. The Black Hills didn't become "holy" to the Souix until after Europeans had been on North America for many generations. It still stands- we need to understand that people are people. All people groups are capable of, and have done, horrible things to other peoples groups, and no matter how much it's a cute story and political pressure says otherwise- ethnogenesis is a complex process and the genetics of the "original inhabitants" are more often than not swamped by people who migrated to that area after already having had an ethnogenesis as a different group some place else. Even the Balts are not the first human group to have lived in their current area and don't have the genetics of the earliest peoples of that region in large amounts in their genome, and it's most likely a Finn-Urgric people lived there before them, and some other unknown before them. So, in conclusion- please stop the crap that the Europeans/Americans did it on a larger scale, that it was racially motivated (it wasn't, and native wars were just as "racially" or more accurately ethnically motivated, the Iroquois and Algonquin hated each other in what we would call in a mutually ethnic cleansing scale, similar to Serbian and Croatian though these two groups are the same ethno-linguistic people and only are different in a religious, with mutually intelligible dialects, and different written script; meaning Serbians and Croatians technically can't ethnically cleanse the other). People are people.