Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.
Neil AbercrombieYou're talking serious money already in the bank, and millions of dollars coming in every year.
Neil AbercrombieSo there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.
Neil AbercrombieA good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden "worthless" land now has an airport on it.
Neil Abercrombie