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BL
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Record Number
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963173
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b717543
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Main Entry
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Robertson, Lindsay Gordon.
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Title & Author
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Conquest by law : : how the discovery of America dispossessed indigenous peoples of their lands /\ Lindsay G. Robertson.
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Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2005.
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Page. NO
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xiii, 239 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :: illustrations, maps ;; 24 cm
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ISBN
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019514869X
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: 0195314891
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: 9780195148695
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: 9780195314892
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-228) and index.
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Contents
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The Illinois and Wabash land companies : purchases and petitions -- Harper -- Before the court -- Unforeseen complication : the complex politics of early republican federalism -- The opinion -- Legacies -- Afterword -- Appendix 1: the 1810 memorial -- Appendix 2: the agreed statement of facts and federal objections to the claims.
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Abstract
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John Marshall's landmark 1823 decision in Johnson v. M'Intosh gave the European sovereigns who "discovered" North America rights to the land, converting Native Americans in one stroke into mere tenants. Drawing on records found in the basement of a Pennsylvania furniture-maker-the complete corporate records of the Illinois and Wabash Land Companies, the plaintiffs in the case-this book provides, for the first time, a complete and troubling account of collusion, detailing how a spurious claim gave rise to a doctrine-intended to be of limited application-which itself gave rise to the massive displacement of Native Americans and the creation of a law that governs indigenous people and their lands to this day. --From publisher's description.
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Subject
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United States.-- History.
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United States.
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United Illinois and Wabash Land Companies
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United Illinois and Wabash Land Companies.
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Constitutional history-- United States.
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Indian land transfers-- History.
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Indians of North America-- Land tenure-- United States-- History.
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Land titles-- Illinois-- History.
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Land titles-- Indiana-- History.
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Constitutional history.
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Enteignung
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Eroberung
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Indian land transfers.
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Indians of North America-- Land tenure.
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Land titles.
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Illinois
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Illinois.
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Indiana
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Indiana.
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Indianer.
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Nordamerika
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United States.
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Dewey Classification
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346.7304/32/08997
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LC Classification
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KF228.U5R63 2005
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NLM classification
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cci1icclacc
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coll1lacc
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KN72.4.G1R634 2005moys
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