"Richard Henry" wrote in message
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"Roger Gt" wrote in message
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The savages who lived here didn't own the land,

Who did? The King of Spain?

No. The tribes "owned" the land they could defend with their ferocity,
cunning, and a sharp stick or flint ax. They did not farm as individuals but
as extended families, so they had no need to own the land as individuals.
The horse, and the steel blades changed all that quite rapidly in historic
terms, well before the settlers started to sweep across the country.