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An idle thought, inspired by reading The Divided Ground, a history of the Iroquois people.

The Iroquois, recognizing that in the long run they would be samped by colonists, tried in the second half of the 18th century to lease their land out through a series of long-term leases, giving themselves absolute control of it and a continuous stream of income to be adjusted over time as development incresaed.

OTL this didn't quite work out, because being a simple folk with an outdated notion of property (namely, that they could have any), but is this preordained? ISTM that a British North America, for instance, could see the Mohawks and other Iroquois as landlords in Upstate New York.
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