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Title: A World Of Fields And Fences
Words: 878
A World of Fields and Fences
European settlers and North American Natives had very different conceptions and ideas about property. Natives had spent many years in a pre-contact environment practicing the communal ownership of property. Evidently, it would have been a strange sight for them to see an area like New England which became a land of "fields and fences" shortly after European contact. These fences denoted the beginning of the end of the nomadic life that Natives had been leading up till this point. The fences signified the changes that were made in the native landscape in North America after European settlement.
It was deemed necessary by the Europeans to erect fences on their new land. Fences were used to define property boundaries and to deter animals from roamin ...
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