Iroquois people were perplexed when a boat would land with the message that the French were now at war with England. All of the men in New France had to attack the English. The Iroquois believed that the earth belonged only to the Creator. The concept of land as property created injustice. Humankind is a product of nature and nature provides for humans.
Humans have to be integrated with nature because nature is rational.
If people do not believe nature is rational then they feel they have permission to kill nature just as they would kill an irrational man. Our ultimate survival depends on the survival of nature. Many perceptions about humanity's role within nature are not to be found in Indo-European thought, but can be found in the thinking of the Indian peoples. Were they to be acted upon, a new revolution in world thinking could occur, possibly as profound as the changes that resulted from the first contacts between peoples. Europe Meets the Indian Mind.