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To: Lester Moore
And if land is stolen does the weaker party have a right to have their land given back?

Legally speaking it would be difficult to determine exactly which Indians "owned" which land, as property rights and a governing body to divide keep track of them was, I gather, virtually unknown at the time. That doesn't make it right, and of course deliberately introducing diseases to the Indians was demonic. But settlers simply landing on the continental United States and setting up shope was not in and of itself a bad thing. It is also important to remember that many missionaries and evangelist were sent to the Indians by Christian denominations.

203 posted on 11/24/2005 7:52:51 PM PST by Zack Nguyen
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To: Zack Nguyen

I suggest that No. Amer. Indians' sense of "property (land)ownership" was more like not owning but by having designated tribal territory. Early land sales between Indians and Euro settlers undoubtedly were negotiated in terms of mutual misunderstanding of the concept of "land ownership."


314 posted on 11/27/2005 3:43:56 AM PST by purpleland (Vigilance and Valor! Socialism is the Opiate of Academia)
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