There is no evidence, anecdotal or archeological, to support a theory that any native American community held any such concept (or value) of "things" as objects that an individual could own or possess in perpetuity. Valued hunting and fishing sights had to be found, rotated, and/or fought over for temporary access and use, but never were such places considered "property" or considered as exclusive to any one tribe, people, or person. If you weren't born with it, can't take it with you when you travel or die (without it gradually decaying and returning to dust), how could--and why would--you seek to possess it?
To this day it seems an archetypical construct in Native American consciousness that all things are--and can only be--temporary possessions. Some thing might have a use in the temporary Now, but one can never possess them (though they might be able to possess you!)
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