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Originally Posted by crucifissio
The people who made the legal process came illegally...it is one thing to immigrate to another country, but to put the natives in concentrated camps and declare their land as you own kinda puts in question the legitimacy of the legal process your ancestors went through...
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To be illegal in the 1600s, wouldn't there have to be a government and laws established? So how did they come here "illegally"? And as far as declaring their land as ours, for the most part the indians didn't believe in private property as they were nomadic. If they did own land it was communally owned, and a lot of that land was sold and paid for by the settlers. You can even search tons of these deeds at the Plymouth County Registry of Deeds going back to the early 1600s