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Did the European notion of "empty space" justify Indian land dispossession?

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Answer:

No

Step-by-step explanation:

These were lands belonging to a tribe and a people, for the fact that it was just out there in the open gave no right to the Europeans to come in and take it. It was an abuse of power and an insult to the then Indian tribe.

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