A few questions.
Whose tree was that? If it belonged to the man in the red shirt (as the first panel implies), then the stereotype in the tophat actually owes him money, for altering his property without his permission. If it belongs to the stereotype, what is red-shirt doing on his land?
And clearly, the red-shirted man appreciated the stereotype's labor, or else he wouldn't have paid him. Or are you implying that there was some sort of extortion going on?
I think the implication is that some sort of marketing was going on.
marketing != capitalism
...'owning trees'... lol
Fuck injuns, amirite? I has paper receipt of ownership now! bang bang!
The marketing happened when the price tag got slapped on there.
Edit: Just realized this comic is way off base, Moneybags would never have done the labor himself, he would have outsourced it to local Mexican daylaborers.
Racist bastard. My grandfather was full blooded Cherokee. He was also Southern Baptist. Leave your hollywood stereotypes at the door. They didn't live in teepees either. They owned farms well before any of them had seen a white man, and they most certainly did own trees.
>I prefer bitch. Check yo privelige.
>Mine was Cherokee too, my great grampa was Blackfoot as well.
>Spent a year as a DJ / engineer at a southern baptist Gospel AM radio station.
>My ancestors certainly didn't live in buildings. EDIT:('building' referring to modern mansions, non-pueblo/anasazi/hopi apartment complexes and suburbian ranch homes with lawns)
>Spain brought over horses, smallpox, glass beads, fake money, and the concept of moneybags "owning" land and trees. Get your imperialist history fixed.