Examines the process by which Native Americans lost their land, chronicling the creation of land ownership laws in the U.S. and explaining that the acquisition of the power to create and enforce such laws played a bigger role in the Native Americans' fate than military force.
In a sense, the farmer's cow is also owned by the neighbor girl who thinks about her, the milkman who buys her milk, the painter who paints her, and any others who appreciate her.
