Were there urban cultures in the Northeast? The largest I've heard of seem more like "towns" than "cities".
There were full-scale cities in the Midwest and South, of course, but I don't think we know enough about those cultures to say what their property rights were like. I'd bet money they were a lot closer to the Aztecs than to a typical hunter-gatherer band, though.
The Tlingit of the Northwest also had a complicated system of property rights, including something akin to what we call "intellectual property" (though there were significant differences to our system). They also kept large numbers of slaves.
That said, it was never as simple as "everyone holds land in common and can do whatever they want with it individually."