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Native Americans traded many things, but land was not one of them. Land was regarded as the source of life, not as a commodity to be sold. " We cannot sell the lives of men and animals" said one Blackfoot chief in the 1800s " therefore we cannot sell this land."

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By farting constantly on the west coast of Oregon while balancing an ostrich on one hand.

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