7 - 5 February 2024
Quiz password: dunkirk
Native Americans had a significant tie to their homeland
Quote
"More than anything else, it was the treatment of land and property as commodities traded at market that distinguished English conceptions of ownership from Indian ones."
William Cronan
Europeans viewed the western hemisphere as a vast empty space
The doctrine of discovery
Basically, the idea that Europeans can take any land just by arriving there. Used to justify taking Native lands.