 | William Burge - 1914 - 1174 pages
...Eep. 367. admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as •wall as a 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... | |
 | United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Indian Affairs - 1928 - 90 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 discretions"; they were denied the right to dispose of their soil, except in accordance with the law... | |
 | United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Indian Affairs - 1937 - 252 pages
...Indians 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, though not to dispose of the soil at their own will, except to the government claiming the right of... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Indian Affairs - 1937 - 240 pages
...Indians 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, though not to dispose of the soil at their own will, except to the government claiming the right of... | |
 | 1898 - 1246 pages
...impaired. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a leg.al 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Indian Affairs - 1939 - 524 pages
...; they 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 discretions. The exclusive power to extinguish the Indians' right of occupancy is vested in the Government... | |
 | United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Indian affairs - 1939 - 540 pages
...; they 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 discretions. The exclusive power to extinguish the Indians' right of occupancy is vested in the Government... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1947 - 478 pages
...said: "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 necessariiy diminished, and... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Public lands - 1947 - 474 pages
...: "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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1948 - 618 pages
...: "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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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... 
