The idea of dividing landscape into plots of individually owned land is a concept alien to Native Americans. That is why the Indians could not understand when the Pilgrims built fences to define property lines. How could anyone own the earth?
Non-Indians tend to think of themselves as separate from the earth; it is something to be mastered. They think in terms of owning land... of land as a commodity. Even the word "frontier" is based on the notion that a certain area lies undeveloped, awaiting settlement and civilization, which implies that land is not good until it is used for some purpose, a belief that is incomprehensible to Native Americans.

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