Conquest by Law : How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780198033943
- United Illinois and Wabash Land Companies -- Trials, litigation, etc
- United States. -- Supreme Court -- History
- Indians of North America -- Land tenure -- United States -- History
- Indian land transfers -- History
- Land titles -- Illinois -- History
- Land titles -- Indiana -- History
- Constitutional history -- United States
- 346.73043208997
- KF228.U5 -- R63 2005eb
Intro -- CONTENTS -- CHAPTER 1 The Illinois and Wabash Land Companies: Purchases and Petitions -- CHAPTER 2 Harper -- CHAPTER 3 Before the Court -- CHAPTER 4 Virginia, Kentucky, and the Complex Politics of Early Republican Federalism -- CHAPTER 5 The Opinion -- CHAPTER 6 Legacies -- AFTERWORD -- APPENDIX 1 The 1810 Memorial -- APPENDIX 2 The Agreed Statement of Facts and Objections to the Claims -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Conquest by Law provides, for the first time, the complete and troubling account of the European "discovery" of the Americas. This is a gripping tale of political collusion, detailing how a spurious claim gave rise to a doctrine--intended to be of limited application--which itself gave rise to a massive displacement of persons and the creation of a law that governs indigenous people and their lands to this day.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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