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Indians from Alaska to Texas, from New York to California, are now claiming lands that are rightfully and legally theirs. Denying its own legal system, the federal government disputes Indian ownership of approximately one hundred million acres, which include presently held tribal lands and individually owned Indian lands; the Alaskan Settlement; administrative, submarginal, restoration, and surplus federal lands; and those lands belonging to terminated...
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"Allan Greer examines the processes by which forms of land tenure emerged and natives were dispossessed from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries in New France (Canada), New Spain (Mexico), and New England. By focusing on land, territory, and property, he deploys the concept of 'property formation' to consider the ways in which Europeans and their Euro-American descendants remade New World space as they laid claim to the continent's resources,...
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John Marshall's landmark 1823 decision in Johnson v. M'Intosh gave the European sovereigns who "discovered" North America rights to the land, converting Native Americans in one stroke into mere tenants. Drawing on records found in the basement of a Pennsylvania furniture-maker-the complete corporate records of the Illinois and Wabash Land Companies, the plaintiffs in the case-this book provides, for the first time, a complete and troubling account...
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"Herbert Welsh (December 4, 1851? 1941) was a United States political reformer and worker for the welfare of the indigenous peoples of North America ... Welsh became known as an earnest advocate for the rights of Indians, a calling triggered by a visit to the Sioux Reservation in 1882. In 1883, his actions resulted in the founding of the Indian Rights Association in Philadelphia, and he served as its corresponding secretary for 34 years and its president...
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