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CLEP US History I

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Which of the following describes how many Native Americans tribes in North America distributed land?
  1. Households would receive a designated plot.
  2. It was all owned by the chief, who would allow tribe members to use it.
  3. It was communally used with little official individual designation to members.
  4. Native Americans did not distinguish between their land and that of neighboring tribes.
  5. Each family was required to subdivide land to support grown children.
Explanation
Answer: C - In many Native American cultures, land was communally used and there were no individual property rights, as the Europeans had. Essentially, many Native American faiths and cultural beliefs saw the land as its own entity that could be used, but not owned. Tribes did have territories in which they operated, so there were distinctions between areas that tribes could access and those whose resources were for others' use. Generally, North American tribes allocated resources based on need.
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