In one of my history classes, my teacher told us that saying that Peter Minuit and the Dutch bought Manhattan for $20 worth of trinkets was misleading, because Native Americans had no concept of land ownership. Is that true? Did the availability of land in the New World make it not a commodity to be bought and sold?
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