TY  - BOOK
AU  - Banner,Stuart
TI  - How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier
SN  - 9780674020535
AV  - E98 
U1  - 333.2 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Indians of North America-Land tenure
KW  - Indians of North America-Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - Indians of North America-Government relations
KW  - Indian land transfers-United States-History
KW  - Property-United States
KW  - Land tenure-Law and legislation-United States
KW  - Land tenure-Government policy-United States
KW  - United States-Politics and government
KW  - United States-Race relations
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Native Proprietors -- 2 Manhattan for Twenty-four Dollars -- 3 From Contract to Treaty -- 4 A Revolution in Land Policy -- 5 From Ownership to Occupancy -- 6 Removal -- 7 Reservations -- 8 Allotment -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
N2  - Between the early 17th century and the early 20th, nearly all U.S. land was transferred from American Indians to whites. Banner argues that neither simple coercion nor simple consent reflects the complicated legal history of land transfers--time, place, and the balance of power between Indians and settlers decided the outcome of land struggles
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