The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.
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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.
It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.
Friends and brothers, The Almighty created us Indians. We are as he made us. The Almighty has given to the whites a book to read, and they have plenty of things to work with. The Indian has no book. He cannot read.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
No tribe unites with another of its own free will.
The Indians gave up the land of their own free will, and for it received brass kettles, blankets, guns, shirts, flints, tobacco, rum and many trinkets in which their simple hearts delighted.
We think we own things, but the reality is, our things own us.