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" In the establishment of these relations the rights of the original inhabitants were, in no instance, entirely disregarded, but were necessarily, to a considerable extent, impaired. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal... "
The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany - Page 215
1844
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Despotic Dominion: Property Rights in British Settler Societies

John McLaren, A. R. Buck, Nancy E. Wright - 2005 - 332 pages
...Marshall, "were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion"; nevertheless, their power to sell or otherwise transfer their land was now limited to a right of alienation...
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Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations

Charles F. Wilkinson - 2005 - 572 pages
...Johnson v Mclntosh in 1823, were "rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion." This Indian right of occupancy meant that tribes had a legal right to live on their aboriginal land,...
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Cash, Color, and Colonialism: The Politics of Tribal Acknowledgment

Renee Ann Cramer - 2005 - 264 pages
...that the Indians were the original occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as a just moral claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion. However, as Mario Gonzalez and Elizabeth Cook-Lynn note, "their rights to complete sovereignty, as...
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Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous ...

Lindsay G. Robertson - 2005 - 272 pages
...impaired. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion; but their rights to BEFORE THE COURT complete sovereignty, as independent nations, were necessarily...
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Papers on Historical Algonquian and Iroquois Topics

David Ezzo - 2007 - 166 pages
...admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil [the Indians], with a legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion: but their rights to complete sovereignty, as independent nations, were necessarily diminished, and...
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The Trouble with Tradition: Native Title and Cultural Change

Simon Young - 2008 - 534 pages
...found lands were conceded to be the rightful occupants of the soil with a legal as well as a just claim to retain possession of it and to use it according to their own discretion' (at 195, emphasis added). See also the comments in the New Zealand decision of Ngati Apa Ki Te Waipounamu...
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Unitarian Review and Religious Magazine, Volume 7

Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie, Joseph Henry Allen - 1877 - 720 pages
...Continent were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as a just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion." Grants of land in this country by the Powers of Europe have always been understood to convey a title...
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Decisions of the Department of the Interior in Cases Relating to ..., Volume 49

United States. Department of the Interior - 1923 - 794 pages
...impaired. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it. and to use it according to their own discretion ; but their rights to complete sovereignty, as independent nations, were necessarily diminished, and...
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Congressional Serial Set, Issue 4190

1901 - 684 pages
...Indians were considered as being the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it and to use it according to their own discretion; but their rights to complete sovereignty as independent nations were necessarily diminished, and their...
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American Indian Policy Review Commission: Final Report ..., Volumes 1-2

United States. American Indian Policy Review Commission - 1977 - 948 pages
...nations "... veré admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion...." 67/ •Пите was no outside interference with the Indian national affairs, "further than to keep...
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