Question

What are 3-5 ways that Native Americans view land?

Answer 1

Native Americans believed land belonged to the community, not to individuals. They didn't own the land the ways homesteaders conceived of ownership.

Answer 2

Native people and the Dutch had very different views of land. Initially, Dutch traders had little interest in Native land. This would change once the Dutch West India Company was created in 1621. To keep the fur trade away from other European competitors, they brought more Dutch people to New York. As Dutch populations grew, so did their desire for Native land. In the early years of Native and Dutch trade, Native people exchanged land as a way of allowing the Dutch to use the land while Native people continued to live on it.