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Charles C. Royce, Indian Land Cessions in the United States (1971). George C. Shattuck, The Oneida Land Claims: A Legal History (1991). H. Upton, The Everett Report In Historical Perspective: The Indians of New York (1980). Allen Van Gestel, The New York Indian Land Claims: An Overview and a Warning, 53 N.Y. St. Bar J. 182 (1981).
Stephen Talkhouse. The Montauk Point land claim was a series of three lawsuits brought by Chief Wyandank Pharaoh, nephew of the Stephen Talkhouse who died in the same year (1879) that the tribe lost the last remaining vestige of their territory in the New York state courts, claiming Montauk Point on behalf of the Montaukett Indians, against the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) and its predecessors ...
The Mohegan Sun, developed on land taken in trust for the Mohegan as a product of settlement. Indian Land Claims Settlements are settlements of Native American land claims by the United States Congress, codified in 25 U.S.C. ch. 19. In several instances, these settlements ended live claims of aboriginal title in the United States. The first two ...
A mining claim is the claim of the right to extract minerals from a tract of public land. In the United States, the practice began with the California gold rush of 1849. In the absence of organized government, the miners in each new mining camp made up their own rules, and to a large extent adopted Mexican mining law.
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Claim clubs, also called actual settlers' associations or squatters' clubs, were a nineteenth-century phenomenon in the American West.Usually operating within a confined local jurisdiction, these pseudo-governmental entities sought to regulate land sales in places where there was little or no legal apparatus to deal with land-related quarrels of any size. [1]
For around two decades, the sands and marshes of Long Island’s Gilgo Beach kept a dark secret.. A killer or killers roamed the locality, luring in escorts and sex workers and brutally murdering ...
After the decision, Congress settled the claim with the Rhode Island Claims Settlement Act (RICSA), the first of many Indian Land Claims Settlements, extinguishing all aboriginal title in Rhode Island in exchange for $3.5 million. [2] The Narragansett claim was "the first of the eastern land claims to be settled."