The Oneida Land Claims: A Legal HistorySyracuse University Press, 1991 M08 1 - 260 páginas Part of the Iroquois Confederacy, the Oneida Indians once controlled large areas of what is now upstate New York. Over the years they have lost their vast holdings to the state of New York, despite their protests concerning what they felt to be unjust seizures and sales of tribal lands. The Oneida Land Claims offers a forceful account of the long and ardent fight by George Shattuck, a partner in the law firm representing the Oneida Indian Nation from 1965 to 1977, to get the Oneidas their day in court. He describes his specific, legal strategy in winning a landmark judgment from the U.S. Supreme Court in 1974 that the Oneidas still owned land taken illegally by New York State in 1795. Because negotiations are still taking place, the Oneidas have yet to receive compensation; but Shattuck's legal battle has helped to create a new body of American Indian law that has affected subsequent Native American land claims cases throughout the eastern United States. |
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Peter Smiths Legacy | 3 |
Petitions to All Agencies | 13 |
The Test Case | 20 |
The Trial | 39 |
Genesis of the Pre1790 Claim | 60 |
Further Petitions and Alternative Strategies | 68 |
Circle the Wagons | 77 |
A Oneida Indian Nation Petition to the Constitutional | 83 |
Assistant Secretary of the Interior Harry R Anderson | 113 |
E Oneida Indian Nation v Oneida Madison Counties | 155 |
G Oneida Petition to the President of the United States | 197 |
H Oneida Madison Counties v Oneida Indian Nation | 207 |
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