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Not native American, but grew up in a rural area (in Canada). My parents only got a "street address" a couple of years ago. There is a land location system goin
by goodcanadian 7y ago
Not native American, but grew up in a rural area (in Canada). My parents only got a "street address" a couple of years ago. There is a land location system going back over a century, but basically no one who didn't live on a farm new how to interpret it (say 98% of the population), and so it was basically useless as an address. The new "street address" is actually based on the land location, but it is formatted like a street address (house number, road name) rather than specifying quarter, section, township, range, meridian. Throughout my childhood, we usually just used a postal address, but in the last couple of decades, bank officials and the like have gotten more and more insistent on a physical address which we were basically unable to provide.
- abandonliberty 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Land_Survey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Land_Survey