Quote Originally Posted by Didz View Post
No disrespect to the aboriginies, or the maories, or the native american's but I get the impression from what I've read that none of them had the same concept of territorial possession as the European settlers that walked in and started claiming their land.

Can't say I've studied much on the subject but I did read an interesting book about the Dutch in South Africa and the problems there were largely affected by the lack of a concept of ownership and centralised leadership amongst the natives. e.g. they would do a deal with one guy in the morning to secure a piece of land, and in the afternoon two or three different guys would turn up expecting the same deal for the same piece of land.
Yes, but I think they still would have got a bit ticked off when they were told that they couldn't use (use in the meaning of foraging and living on) the land they'd been using for 80,000 years.
Also, any idea what book that was?