Matt Barrow ) wrote:
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: Not only didn't they have ownership contracts, they had no concept of
: land ownership at all.
:

Some had the concept of owning people...

http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/slave_rv.htm
CHEROKEE SLAVE REVOLT OF 1842

"CHEROKEE SLAVE REVOLT OF 1842

by Art T. Burton
Copyright 1996. Art T. Burton

Black slavery in America usually evokes images of the antebellum
South, but few realize that members of the Five Civilized Tribes--the
Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks, and Seminoles--in Indian
Territory, today's Oklahoma, also had slaves. Like their counterparts
in the South, Indian slaveholders feared slave revolts. Those fears
came true in 1842 when slaves in the Cherokee Nation made a daring
dash for freedom.

In the 1830s and 1840s, initially at the insistence of President
Andrew Jackson, the United States government forcibly removed the Five
Civilized Tribes from their homes in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee,
North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida to Indian Territory west of the
Mississippi River. Their removal opened the lands to white settlers
and planters..."


This defines the term "Five Civilized Tribes":

http://www.sff.net/people/Rion.Wilhelm/five_tribes.html
The Five Civilized Tribes

--Jerry Leslie
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