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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778169303321

Autore

Banner Stuart <1963->

Titolo

How the Indians lost their land [[electronic resource] ] : law and power on the frontier / / Stuart Banner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005

ISBN

0-674-02053-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 p. ) : ill., port

Classificazione

HU 1726

Disciplina

333.2

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Land tenure

Indians of North America - Legal status, laws, etc

Indians of North America - Government relations

Indian land transfers - United States - History

Property - United States

Land tenure - Law and legislation - United States

Land tenure - Government policy - United States

United States Politics and government

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2005.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-336) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Native Proprietors -- 2. Manhattan for Twenty-four Dollars -- 3. From Contract to Treaty -- 4. A Revolution in Land Policy -- 5. From Ownership to Occupancy -- 6. Removal -- 7. Reservations -- 8. Allotment -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Between the early seventeenth century and the early twentieth, nearly all the land in the United States was transferred from American Indians to whites. How did Indians actually lose their land? Stuart Banner argues that neither simple coercion nor simple consent reflects the complicated legal history of land transfers. Instead, time, place, and the balance of power between Indians and settlers decided the outcome of land struggles.