It was into that web of relationships that the Haudenosaunee welcomed the newcomers with the Two Row Wampum. But that was not the kind of relationship that the newcomers had in mind. The settlers turned everything into parcels and products that could be bought and sold and speculated in. And the Doctrine of Discovery—a bundle of laws and proclamations developed by the church about who had the right to land—meant that they didn’t even have to buy it. They could just take it.
