And that was exacerbated by a huge cultural divide over use vs ownership
of land. Indians of the colonies planted the land but also moved with
the seasons since it was also necessary to them to hunt and fish in
different seasons and in places different from where they planted.
Their concept was that they had rights to use the land (which they might
share with others) but did not profess ownership of the land in the
sense an Englishman would. Early land "transactions" between Englishmen
and indians were seen as purchases of exclusive rights to the land by
the Englishmen but as only rights to share use of the land by the
indians doing the negotiation. Neither side had any notion of the
cultural divide between them. And it only went downhill from there.
Chuck Norcutt
On 11/22/2010 9:13 AM, Bill Pearce wrote:
> Not to justify what went on in those days, but remember, they were
> considered savages in that society, something more than animals but only
> just.
>
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> From: Chuck Norcutt [mailto:chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 7:58 AM
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
> Subject: Re: [OM] OT - A snippit from our lives as of late
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> A very complicated subject. At the time the constitution was written
> most indians would not have been considered citizens. Their only
> significant mention in the constitution concerns regulation of commerce
> where it's seen that individual tribes were considered in the same sense
> as "foreign nations". All have been considered citizens since 1924 but,
> by that time, most were already considered citizens based on previous
> legal actions.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> On 11/22/2010 2:32 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
>> And the native indians were omitted from the Constitution for rights,
>> as I understood it from my study of US politics at school.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On 21 Nov 2010, at 22:04, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>>
>>> The raw deals (plural) the Meskwaki got were begun by the French.
>>> We other natives didn't join in until much later.
>>>
>>> Chuck Norcutt who is part Mohawk via an Indian maiden and a French
>>> fur trapper named Proulx... a difficult combination for living in a
>>> New England village.
>>>
>>
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