Title How the Indians lost their land : law and power on the frontier / Stuart Banner.

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Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Belknap, 2007.

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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	323.1197 B219H	Check Shelf

Description	pages cm
Note	Originally published: 2005.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction -- Native proprietors -- Manhattan for twenty-four dollars -- From contract to treaty -- A revolution in land policy -- From ownership to occupancy -- Removal -- Reservations -- Allotment -- Epilogue.
Summary	"Between the early seventeenth century and the early twentieth, nearly all the land in the United States was transferred from American Indians to whites. This dramatic transformation has been understood in two very different ways - as a series of consensual transactions, but also as a process of violent conquest. Both views cannot be correct. How did Indians actually lose their land?" "Stuart Banner provides the first comprehensive answer. He 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. As the power of whites grew, they were able to establish the legal institutions and the rules by which land transactions would be made and enforced." "How the Indians Lost Their Land reveals how subtle changes in the law can determine the fate of a nation, and our understanding of the past."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject	Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc. (OCoLC)fst00969825
	Politics and government (OCoLC)fst01919741
	Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc.
	Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- United States.
	Land tenure -- Government policy -- United States.
	Indians of North America -- Government relations.
	Indian land transfers -- United States -- History.
	Property. (OCoLC)fst01079116
	Land tenure -- Law and legislation. (OCoLC)fst00991383
	United States -- Politics and government.
	Land tenure -- Government policy. (OCoLC)fst00991376
	Indians of North America -- Government relations. (OCoLC)fst00969761
Local Subject	Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Land tenure.
Subject	Indian land transfers. (OCoLC)fst00969127
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Local Subject	Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Subject	Property -- United States.
Local Subject	Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Government relations.
Subject	Indians of North America -- Land tenure. (OCoLC)fst00969807
	Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
	Indians of North America -- Land tenure.
	United States -- Race relations.
Local Subject	Indigenous land transfers -- United States -- History.
ISBN	9780674023963 (pbk.)
	067402396X (pbk.)
	0674018710
	9780674018716

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