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Conquest by Law - How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands (Paperback)
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Conquest by Law - How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands (Paperback)
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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. In 1991, while investigating the historical origins of
this highly controversial decision, Lindsay Robertson made a
startling find in the basement of a Pennsylvania
furniture-maker--the complete corporate records of the Illinois and
Wabash Land Companies, the plaintiffs in the case. Drawing on these
records, Conquest by Law 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 led to the massive displacement of Native
Americans and the creation of a law that governs indigenous people
to this day.
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