01703nam a2200277Ia 4500 TVU_12647 210423s9999 xx 000 0 und d 0195314891 9780195314892 eng 346.730432 L311 Robertson, Lindsay G. Conquest by law How the discovery of America dispossessed indigenous peoples of their lands Lindsay G. Robertson Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2005 xiii, 239 p., [8] p. of plates ill., maps 24 cm 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 Constitutional history; United Illinois and Wabash Land Companies; United States. Supreme Court; Indian land transfers Lindsay G. Robertson Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh