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Congress responded by passing the Indian Appropriations Act, which appropriated the tribal monies, and Grant signed it into law on July 15, 1870. Two days after Spotted Tail urged the Grant administration to keep white settlers from invading Native reservation land, Grant ordered all Generals in the West to "keep intruders off by military force ...
Limitation Act (Section 5 of the Indian Limitation Act) 1963: 36 Textiles Committee Act: 1963: 41 Administrators-General Act: 1963: 45 Specifice Relief Act: 1963: 47 Central Boards of Revenue Act: 1963: 54 Companies (Profits) Surtax Act: 1964: 7 Taxation Laws (Continuation and Validation of Recovery Proceedings) Act: 1964: 11 Dakshina Bharat ...
Indian Country, as defined by Congress in 1948 (18 U.S.C.A. 1151) is: a) "all land within the limits of any Indian reservation under the jurisdiction of the United States government, notwithstanding the issuance of any patent, and including rights-of way running through the reservation, b) all dependent Indian communities within the borders of ...
The Indian Appropriations Act is the name of several acts passed by the United States Congress.A considerable number of acts were passed under the same name throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, but the most notable landmark acts consist of the Appropriation Bill for Indian Affairs of 1851 [1] and the 1871 Indian Appropriations Act.
Native American civil rights are the civil rights of Native Americans in the United States.Native Americans are citizens of their respective Native nations as well as of the United States, and those nations are characterized under United States law as "domestic dependent nations", a special relationship that creates a tension between rights retained via tribal sovereignty and rights that ...
T. R. Desai (1876-1914) was an Indian lawyer and author best known for writing books in Trust, Equity, Limitation, Easement, Government Tenders, Contract and Sale of Goods Act. He was the father of Justice S. T. Desai , Chief Justice of Gujarat and Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India.
The easement contains pipes that supply water to 360,000 residents. The problem is that those pipes are now nearly 100 years old, so a rupture could happen at any time, resulting in untold damages.
The 1862 Homestead Act did not include indigenous peoples, so Congress passed the Indian Homestead Act to give Native family heads the opportunity to purchase homesteads from unclaimed public lands. This was under the condition that the individual relinquished their tribal identity and relations, along with the land improvement requirements.