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How do hunters and gatherers view rights to a land?

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The three articles about groups in northern Canada illustrate how long and protracted such struggles can be even in a country which claims to recognize indigenous "nations," the land rights of indigenous peoples, and the premise of ethnic pluralism. read more

H-G gathers have nothing like a the concept of ownership that we have, much less about land. Across the board what the call religion is much closer to cosmology, everything of one system. The earth is consider the mother of all thing from where we come and return. read more

Hunting and gathering culture, also called foraging culture, any group of people that depends primarily on wild foods for subsistence. Until about 12,000 to 11,000 years ago, when agriculture and animal domestication emerged in southwest Asia and in Mesoamerica, all peoples were hunters and gatherers. read more

One of the possible reasons that hunters and gatherers do not work more than they do may be to avoid overexploitation of their environment. Think about this: overhunting might allow people to feast for a few days, but over the long run, the effect would simply be to destroy the local game supplies. read more

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