>So why did they not form a treaty if they saw them as the original owners? Put simply, Aboriginals did not have a concept of land ownership, let alone of treaties. Indeed, it would be more accurate to say that, seen through Aboriginal eyes, the land owned them. That's an astute mic drop. Any people who dont grasp the concept of property rights *dont have them*. Anyone with a sense of property rights can simply come along and homestead it as unowned land.