Indian Land Cessions in the United States

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Among the various problems forced on European nations by the discovery of America was that of determining their respective rights in regard to the territory of the newly discovered continent. The fact that the country was inhabited by and in possession of a native population does not appear to have been taken into consideration in the solution of. this problem. Read more...

• Introduction by Cyrus Thomas

  • Right to the soil dependent on discovery

    • Nature of the Indian title to Lands

    • Estimate of Indian Population of the United States

  • Foreign policy toward the Indians

    • The Spanish policy

      • Commissions were Authorized by Congress

    • The French policy

    • The English policy

      • Wavering and Undefined Policy

  • Colonial policy toward the Indians

    • The policy in general

      • Virginia

      • Maryland

      • New York

        • License to purchase Indian Lands at the Nevesinks

      • New Jersey

      • Pennsylvania

      • Massachusetts

        • Barnstable

        • Nantucket

      • Connecticut

      • Rhode Island

      • North Carolina

      • South Carolina

      • Georgia

        • Geometrical Table, Containing the Actual Survey of the Indian Boundary

      • New Hampshire and Delaware

  • Policy of the United States

  • Acknowledgments

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First annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1879-80

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