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>that same property was almost entirely all stolen in the recent past. Was there some sort of native American title office that the European settlers missed?
by clavalle 12y ago
>that same property was almost entirely all stolen in the recent past.
Was there some sort of native American title office that the European settlers missed? Was every square mile of what would become the United States occupied, used, and accounted for?
The English were brutal, no doubt about it, but the French, for one, lived for a couple of centuries side by side with many native peoples in frontier areas without forcefully taking land and treating the natives as a population of people to be dealt with on an equal footing. There was plenty of room for everyone and huge areas of unclaimed, un-worked, un-owned land in every meaningful sense of the word.
- whybroke 12y agoAnd it wasn't just low intensity use by French trappers alongside natives but even higher intensity use such as the US southern states along side Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole agricultural societies that was working perfectly well [1] (until it was annihilated by Andrew Jackson et al contrary to a supreme court decision prohibiting it) And indeed those tribes very much had land title offices, legal system and even constitutions echoing the US document.[2] [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Civilized_Tribes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Civilized_Tribes [2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee#Treaties_and_government http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee#Treaties_and_governmen...