How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the FrontierHarvard University Press, 2005 M10 25 - 344 pages Between the early seventeenth century and the early twentieth,nearly all the land in the United States was transferred from AmericanIndians to whites. This dramatic transformation has been understood in two very different ways--as a series of consensual transactions, but also as a process of violent conquest. Both views cannot be correct. How did Indians actually lose their land? |
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... boundaries of the entity called " New York , " just to pick one example , encompassed large tracts of land inhabited by Indians who had never agreed to be included . After the Revolution , the boundaries of " the United States ...
... boundaries ceded their property rights . To say that the Indians were subject to the sovereignty of the United States did not mean that their land was owned by the United States . Property and sovereignty are separate issues , and they ...
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