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technios
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and I made a mistake when I said owned because they understood borrowing
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The didn't believe that anyone could own land.
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Was granted in large tracts to politically-connected speculators to hold and rent out while the value increased. The Homestead Act provided land to speculators via fraud Henry George's book, Our Land and Land Policy
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One barrel of gunpowder two of liquor? I'm just guessing here!
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The Indians sold Manhattan to the Dutch for a few pieces of trinkets. Native Americans didn't use money. Lands were plentiful. They were free to roam and settle down anywhere.
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negative two lives?
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Most native tribes didn't believe in transmissibility of ownership, per se; they would not "sell" per-se their land for any price though they would defend "their" land to the death. The oft told tale of how "in 1626 Peter Minuit bought Manhattan island from the local Indians for $24 worth of beads" is a decidedly Eurocentric point of view. In fact more the truth in pretty much every case was that the land was stolen from the natives; treaties were made and "bead bribes" were offered, mainly to keep the natives from attacking, but inevitably the Europeans moved in, killed the natives, broke the treaties, and perpetuated myths about how they had "bought" the land.
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