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From: elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League N America)
Subject:  land rights in native amerindian languages 
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deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff) writes in a recent posting (reference <E3z6oB.EqG@midway.uchicago.edu>):
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>	I'm not up on my Illinois history (for some reason, they didn't
>require it in Missouri grade school) so I don't know for sure:  Was this
>land actually taken by conquest?  I had always assumed that, like most
>other former Amerind territories, it had been purchased. 

Did the concept "to purchase [or own] land" exist in the languages of
native peoples? I suspect that this "purchase" was not a well-understood
transaction.  

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