 | Rhode Island. Supreme Court - 1899 - 942 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1955 - 222 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." The Tee- Hit-Ton case thus declares merely that the burden is upon Congress to protect these rights... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1955 - 208 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." The Tee-Hit-Ton case thus declares merely that the burden is upon Congress to protect these rights... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1977 - 446 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries - 1978 - 352 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs - 1980 - 1158 pages
...impaired. 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 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... 
