While Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary defines property as 'something regarded as being possessed by, or at the disposal of, a person or group of persons species or class,' (p. 1078) this definition hardly holds the connotations so emphatically discussed by the anthropologist Morgan. To Morgan, 'property has been so immense...so diversified its uses so expanding...that it has become...an unmanageable power.' (p.561) Why has it become such an unmanageable power? Morgan answers …showed first 75 words of 2782 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2782 total…one's tribe but instead as belonging to one's self. The competition had grown to immense proportions and it seems almost obvious to Wolf that the exploitation of the natives had become inevitable due to their inclusion in the tough capitalist world market. Unfortunately, though, it seems as if a trap was set for the natives, and just as the beavers were caught and skinned to fuel the capitalist machine so too were the native Americans.