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Buying America from the Indians: Johnson v. McIntosh and the History of Native Land Rights

Autor Blake A. Watson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 apr 2012
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in "Johnson v. McIntosh" established the basic principles that govern American Indian property rights to this day. In the case, more than one Anglo-American purchaser claimed title to the same land in what is now southern Illinois. The Piankeshaw Indians had deeded the land twiceonce to speculators in 1775, and again, thirty years later, to the United States by treaty. The Court decided in favor of William McIntosh, who had bought the land from the U.S. government. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Marshall declared that the discovery of America had given exclusive title to those who made it namely, the European colonizers. According to "Johnson, "the Piankeshaws did not own what they thought was their land. Indeed, no Indian tribe did.
"Johnson v. McIntosh" and its impact offers a comprehensive historical and legal overview of Native land rights since the European discovery of the New World. Watson sets the case in rich historical context. After tracing Anglo-American views of Native land rights to their European roots, Watson explains how speculative ventures in Native lands affected not only Indian peoples themselves but the causes and outcomes of the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and ratification of the Articles of Confederation. He then focuses on the transactions at issue in "Johnson" between the Illinois and Piankeshaw Indians, who sold their homelands, and the future shareholders of the United Illinois and Wabash Land Companies.
The final chapters highlight the historical legacy of "Johnson v. McIntosh" on federal policy with regard to Indian lands. Taught to first-year law students as the root of title for real property in the United States, the case has also been condemned by the United Nations and others as a Eurocentric justification for the subjugation of the Indians. Watson argues that the United States should formally repudiate the discovery doctrine set forth in Johnson v. McIntosh.
The thorough backstory and analysis in this book will deepen our understanding of one of the most important cases in both federal Indian law and in American property law.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780806142449
ISBN-10: 0806142448
Pagini: 494
Dimensiuni: 165 x 236 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.86 kg
Editura: University of Oklahoma Press

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