People even critique this based on this false memory ("Oh, and house-elves get emancipated in one line in the epilogue without ever really going into details") but they're wrong! They AREN'T in the epilogue, they DON'T EVEN GET ONE LINE
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To hear one of the descendants tell it they only stayed there very small part of the year so if you want to give us some beads and blankets have at it.
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I always heard it as a deliberate lie/trick by the settlers (like "here, look, some offerings of peace, can you sign this form to confirm you got them" and the form is a contract or something, idk, I'm emphatically not a historian)
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Yeah, kind of a looming issue over every treaty signed in the America's is that it was the European concept of land ownership that being assumed. As is the fact that people aren't aware of that. And trying to explain non-european views on landownership can be rough.
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I've seen a hypothesis that the natives they paid were nomads (or travelling merchants from Long Island) and they understood it as being paid to spend the season "somewhere else", and the Dutch got ripped off because there's a whole massive continent to camp in, my dudes.
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Right, they "paid for the island" the way you pay someonr $20 to take their parking space
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