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OK...

Let's see now... 3 out of 8 of my great grandparents were Native American. 2 were from the Cherokee Nation of southern Georgia before they were "relocated" on the trail of tears to OK - where the "sooners" stole that land from them. One was from the Northwest of the USA ( or perhaps Canada ) as he was a Blackfoot. My mother looked Native American... or Italian... or even Hispanic.

So... some of my ancestry goes back thousands of years on this continent. But then there is the Dutch and Irish and English part that go back maybe 200 years or less.

Anyway... let's do it... forget all property ownership... take all the land, buildings, streets, parks, rivers, lakes... and assign a weight based strictly on how long all of your ancestors have been within the 50 states. divvy it all up... I'll take my few thousand acres and homes buildings etc NOW please. Get the fuck out of my country and off my land. I want my cousin, who lives on a reservation... and her husband... to have many square miles of property...

Lets see how the landed gentry like that proposal.