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To: lainie; All

You can't loose what you don't own.

The indians did not have "land ownership". Claiming to own land is only something that started AFTER the settlers came.

(people forget, that the indians thought THEY were cheating the dutch by selling manhattan. In their mindset NO land can be owned.)

This is just more "pro-communist"/collective ownership disguised as something else bs.


296 posted on 11/25/2005 9:24:05 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: longtermmemmory
Where did this idea arise that Indians didn't have a concept of land ownership?

They knew what territories were theres, and which were not, and who had hunting rights, or fishing rights, and who didn't.

I think folks are confusing precision land surveys with "ownership".

299 posted on 11/25/2005 9:45:32 AM PST by muawiyah (u)
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