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> property rights didn't just start with the Europeans coming to the americas, so all current land ownership is illegal ehh, property rights here sorta did com
by replygirl 4y ago
> property rights didn't just start with the Europeans coming to the americas, so all current land ownership is illegal
ehh, property rights here sorta did come out of colonization, much of the land was bought from communities who didn't have a concept of private property.
it's not a technical issue of legality, it's that this was unjust and wrong.
> Now this obviously would open a whole different can of worms
potentially undermining the legal and economic foundation of contemporary tribal sovereignty, for one.