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Author Robertson, Lindsay Gordon.

Title Conquest by law : how the discovery of America dispossessed indigenous peoples of their lands / by Lindsay G. Robertson
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2005

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Description xiii, 239 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents Ch. 1. The Illinois and Wabash land companies : purchases and petitions -- Ch. 2. Harper -- Ch. 3. Before the court -- Ch. 4. Virginia, Kentucky, and the complex politics of early republican federalism -- Ch. 5. The opinion -- Ch. 6. Legacies -- App. 1. The 1810 memorial -- App. 2. The agreed statement of facts and objections to the claims
Summary "This is a tale of political collusion and unintended consequences. It is a story of how a spurious claim gave rise to a doctrine - intended to be of limited application - that 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."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject 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.
SUBJECT United States -- Discovery and exploration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100187
Genre/Form Trial and arbitral proceedings.
LC no. 2004022795
ISBN 019514869X