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1704 New England, a widening vortex of vengeance feeds on the
mounting toll of injustices in all quarters: the Indians, without any concept of
private property, want revenge for the fertile lands taken from them. Indian
women grow tens of millions of bushels of corn annually while the men hunt
fresh meat daily. The corn crop quickly exhausts the soil, so every few
years, Indian villages move to alternate fertile areas, leaving the old corn
fields fallow for the soil to regenerate. They intend to return to the
regenerated corn fields in several years, and take up where they left off - a
system of farming so ancient its origins are obscured by time. European
settlers, seeing empty farmland, simply take it, the land now becomes their
private property, and lost to the Indians forever - gone but not forgotten.
Added to their use-it-or-lose-it land problems, the Indians have other
insurmountable barriers barring the way to equity with the technically
superior foreigners. Indians have no written language or business lexicon
whatsoever, so every deal or trade must by necessity be a handshake
agreement - no problem for an Indian doing business in this fashion for
thousands of years, but the urbane Europeans, who are even at this early
date producing prodigious numbers of lawyers, take oral contracts as a
licence to steal. (Which is not too different today.) Also considering that
very, very few Indians of the time speak English - every oral transaction
requires a multilingual translator - it is easy to see how the Indians, who
legally own the entire country from ocean to ocean, are easily cheated with
every transaction. The very term, “LAWYER” is an incomprehensible
concept for Stone Age aborigines to absorb.
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