Most of the indian tribes did not believe the land belonged to anyone, not even them. (That view has nothing to do with what happened to them) All of this 'our land' back then was really 'the land.' The problem was that they were being forced to move (and where they were being forced to move to and what was or was not there), not that anyone came here uninvited. They didn't see it as their property. They considered themselves stewards of the land. They considered it a moral right to walk anywhere on the earth they wished and didn't understand the european concept of land ownership and private property. They were mostly concerned with the right to visit their historical, spiritual, and grave sites of their ancestors.


>>Actually he is correct to a point. Other than the Chinese exclusion law, Congress passed the very first Immigration Quota Act of 1921 and the even more restrictive Immigration Act of 1924.
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>>Up until then it was a free for all and no immigration (other than Chinese) was illegal.
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>Yes, but the question in this case is whether the original owners - the indians - allowed immigration. I would say originally they did, but then the European colonizers went way further than any original agreement allowed for.