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What did Native Americans get in exchange for allowing white settlers to travel across their land? 

OpenStudy (anonymous):

I thought the Native American culture didn't believe in ownership of land? So in what sense was it "their" land, and why would they imagine they had a right to control who passed across it? I can see the Europeans thinking that way, but the conventional wisdom is that the Indians did not.

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