Genivaria wrote:Shirah Mataniya wrote:That is irrelevant in my opinion and has nothing to do with Native Americans.
The Native Americans had their native lands taken from them, hence why they are called
Native Americans - Africans and Asians are not native to the United States theerfore it would be quite ridiculous for them to declare an independent nation with the United States. Besides those of African descent dominate many nations in the Caribbean.
They did? Last I heard they didn't recognize property back then.
http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/property-rights-among-native-americans#axzz2b8a8otFs Many want you to think that the Native Americans didn't have property, but that would be a misconception. Every tribe approached property in different ways.
Personal ethics and spiritual values were important, as they are in any society, but those ethics and values worked along with private and communal property rights, which strictly defined who could use resources and rewarded good stewardship.
Indian land tenure systems were varied. While some ownership was completely or almost completely communal, other ownership was more like today’s fee simple.[2] The degree of private ownership reflected the scarcity of land and the difficulty or ease of defining and enforcing rights.
Basically, in many tribes, those who could use land responsibly and sustainably got rights over the land. Some other tribes only had communal ownership, while other tribes were different.
For example, families among the Mahican Indians in the Northeast possessed hereditary rights to use well-defined tracts of garden land along the rivers.
The Mahican tribe had hereditary rights for the most valuable land.
Customary rights governed hunting, trapping, and fishing. These rights were often expressed in terms of religion and spirituality rather than of science as we understand it today, writes Peter Usher. Nonetheless, the rules conserved the resource base and harmony within the band.[
Customary rights often governed food sources.
The successful hunter was entitled to keep the skin and some choice portion of the meat for his family, writes one historian
Among Plains Indians, successful hunters had first right over caught food.
As with hunting, Native Americans often specified fishing territories. In the Pacific Northwest, Indians had well-defined salmon fishing rights.
Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest had strong fishing rights.
Personal items were nearly always privately owned. Clothes, weapons, utensils, and housing were often owned by women, for whom they provided a way to accumulate personal wealth
Personal property was important, with personal items and wealth being recognized.
Tribes were essentially socialist societies, but with some private control of land.