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Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands

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John Marshall’s landmark 1823 decision in Johnson v. M’Intosh gave the European sovereigns who “came upon” North The us rights to the land, converting Native Americans in one stroke into mere tenants. In 1991, at the same time as investigating the historical origins of this highly controversial decision, Lindsay Robertson made a startling find within the basement of a Pennsylvania furniture-maker–all the corporate records of the Illinois and Wabash Land Companies, the plaintiffs within the case. Drawing on these records, Conquest by Law provides, for the primary time, a whole and troubling account of collusion, detailing how a spurious claim gave upward push to a doctrine–intended to be of limited application–which led to the huge displacement of Native Americans and the creation of a law that governs indigenous people to at the moment.

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