Case Study: Indian V. United States
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Whether the land title conveyed from the Indian tribes to private persons prior to the American Revolution is accepted in a United States court?
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Joshua Johnson (plaintiff) inherited a tract of land from his father, who bought the land from the Piankeshaw Indians prior to the American Revolution at which time the Piankeshaw Indians lived on the land. The county of Illinois in which the land was located was created by the State of Virginia after the Declaration of Independence. The land was then conveyed to the United States government by the Virginia delegates to Congress. William M’Intosh (defendant) about 35 years later bought some portion of the land from the government of the United states when they sold it. Johnson filed
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On October 9, 1806, Joseph Bird Joquips, a 70 year old Native Indian from the Mohegan Tribe, petitioned the State of Connecticut General Assembly for a portion of the land in Connecticut that was divided among Natives in the Mohegan tribe. He emphasized his devout military career that began in 1758 during the Seven Years’ War to convince members of the General Assembly to allot him a portion of land that belonged to the Mohegan Indians. While Joquips had already rightfully possessed a piece of the land because he had lived on it prior to European presence, the Europeans did not recognize his authority to the land; and thus, forcibly seized control of Native lands so that they could distribute it as they saw fit. It was not important for Joquips to possess a piece of land, but to have the Europeans recognize that the land belong to him. Thus, this petition represented Joquips manipulation of the European system to secure a piece of his tribe’s land with hopes to collect the land for the Mohegan tribe piece by piece.
“The settler colonial logic of elimination in its crudest form, a violent rejection of all things Indian, was transformed into a paternalistic mode of governmentality which, though still sanctioned by state violence, came to focus on assimilation rather than rejection.” –Patrick Wolfe, After the Frontier: Separation and Absorption in US Indian Policy, 13 Wolfe’s statement illustrates how the US government put more emphasis on legalized absorption of Indians into the White society rather than using forceful and violent methods to acquire the Natives’ land. After the colonization of the westward land and the end of the Frontier era, the US government’s method of assimilation of the Indians started revolving around allotment and blood quanta. With no place to further push the Natives away, the established Bureau of Indian Affairs and the government took action to eliminate the Natives culturally and spiritually instead of physically.
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We are connected, and who live under Our Protection should not be molested or disturbed... no Governor...in any of Our other Colonies or Plantations in America, do presume for the present...to grant Warrants of Survey, or pass Patents for any Lands beyond the Heads or Sources of any of the Rivers which fall into the Atlantic Ocean.... We do...enjoy and require that no private Person do presume to make any Purchase from the said Indians of any Lands reserved to the said
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The Dakota agreed to sell their territory for cash and annuities. This treaty was instigated by the first governor of the territory, Alexander Ramsey, and Luke Lea, Commissioner of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C. The United States wanted the agreement with the Natives to gain control of agricultural lands for more settlers. In this Treaty, the Dakota ceded nearly 24,000,000 acres of land in south and west Minnesota, along with some land in Iowa and the Dakota Territory. Many Natives agreed to this to ensure the continuation of their livelihood, given the outcome of previous treaties with the United
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Often history lessons debate the ruling between the United States Supreme Court and the Cherokee Nation. In 1831 Chief Justice John Marshall deemed the Cherokee Nation a “ward to its guardian”. Chief Justice Marshall pointed to Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution as evidence; separated "foreign nations" and "Indian tribes" because they did not consider the Indian nations as either foreign or independent. [1] Since the Cherokee were not a foreign state, he concluded, the Court had no original jurisdiction powers, and so it could not grant the injunction that the Cherokee desired.
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This evidence supports my subclaim because the original amount of land that the Cherokee Nation owned was taken away over time by white settlers. Document 2, “Cherokee Nation of Indians, Letter to Congress, February 22, 1838. Printed in The Vermont Telegraph newspaper on April 4, 1838” is the most reliable document showing discrimination because it was written by members of the Cherokee tribe who clearly state forms if
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The Indian Removal Act was signed in 1830 by President Andrew Jackson to remove the Cherokee Indians from their homes and force them to settle west of the Mississippi River. The act was passed in hopes to gain agrarian land that would replenish the cotton industry which had plummeted after the Panic of 1819. Andrew Jackson believed that effectively forcing the Cherokees to become more civilized and to christianize them would be beneficial to them. Therefore, he thought the journey westward was necessary. In late 1838, the Cherokees were removed from their homes and forced into a brutal journey westward in the bitter cold.
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Even if the Indians used their land differently from the Europeans they will possessed it by right of first occupancy and by the right of the ecological changes they had wrought in it. Few of the Europeans were willing to recognize that the ways Indians occupied New England ecosystems were as legitimate as the ways Europeans
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The Georgia speculators went to the government of state, and asked if they could have the Cherokees’ land. Georgia invoked eminent domain. The Cherokees hired lawyers and went to the Georgia courts.
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