“The man who stands upon his own soil, who feels, by the laws of the land in which he lives,--by the laws of civilized nations,--he is the rightful and exclusive owner of the land which he tills, is, by the constitution of our nature, under a wholesome influence, not easily imbibed from any other source.”

The occupying statist theocracy infesting this land is not a civilized nation and, does not recognize law or allodial ownership. The State of Nature has been usurped and all but extinguished by the despot's unwholesome force.

Good Mike... Though I still like the Indian way with regards to ownership of land - there was none.

Robken, me too - with a small clarification as concerns area; that those that lived a nomadic life styles did so with very territorial mind sets in a perfected custodial relationship (a very close kin to ownership - the family's ranch / farm / house); also, private space was held sacred (an administrative equivalent to ownership).

Mike, yes, you are quite right - there was no formal agreement - most were based on the virtue of respect - it was also a two fold ownership, one of a very large territory, and secondly, one of immediate ownership, which once vacated was ready for the next occupant. It was the large territory that was sacred, i.e., a sovereign state. Within the sovereign state property didn't exist.