Compare a Northern Blackfoot Indian's response to White Man's attempt to buy land:
"Our land is
more valuable than your money. It will last forever. . .As long as the sun shines and waters flow, this
land will be here to give life to men and animals. We cannot sell the lives of men and animals;
therefore we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it
because it does not belong to us."