hi! assuming that your core question is about property, here are a few posts that can get you started:

• How accurate is the popular US perception that Native Americans lost their land "because they didn't understand the concept of ownership?"

• How did Native Americans (or other tribes for that matter) avoid 'Tragedy of the Commons' problems?

• Why do many Native-American cultures not have any concept of land ownership?

• How did Native Americans view land ownership?

edit: this one may be of interest too

• What have been the legal arguments in the United States as to why Native Americans should not have their land back?

Check out William Cronon's "Changes in the Land," or even just the Wikipedia entry for the book. Cronon examines the different conceptions of land use held by English and Indians during the early colonial period and argues that those differing conceptions did indeed lead to the Indians being taken advantage of by European colonists. Fascinating stuff, and treated with nuance from the perspective of ecology rather than the more narrow angle of "property."