Purchase and/or Conquest
Eric Foner: Were the Indians robbed?, 9 February 2006
How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier
by Stuart Banner.
Harvard, 344 pp., £18.95, November 2005,0 674 01871 0 Show More
by Stuart Banner.
Harvard, 344 pp., £18.95, November 2005,
“... diminished. In Johnson v. M’Intosh (1823), a pivotal Supreme Court decision, Chief Justice John Marshall declared that Indians had a ‘right of occupancy’, but were not full owners of their land as whites understood it. Nonetheless, to the end of the 19th century, even as the federal government forcibly expelled Indians from the eastern half of the ... ”