{"product_id":"buying-america-from-the-indians-johnson-v-mcintosh-and-the-history-of-native-land-rights-9780806142449","title":"Buying America from the Indians: Johnson v. McIntosh and the History of Native Land Rights","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe U.S. Supreme Court ruling in \u003cem\u003eJohnson v. McIntosh\u003c\/em\u003e established the basic principles that govern American Indian property rights to this day. In the case, more than one Anglo-American purchaser claimed title to the same land in what is now southern Illinois. The Piankeshaw Indians had deeded the land twice-once to speculators in 1775, and again, thirty years later, to the United States by treaty. The Court decided in favor of William McIntosh, who had bought the land from the U.S. government. Writing for the majority, \u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eChief Justice John Marshall declared that the \"discovery\" of America had given \"exclusive title to those who made it\"-namely, the European colonizers. According to \u003cem\u003eJohnson, \u003c\/em\u003ethe Piankeshaws did not own what they thought was their land. Indeed, no Indian tribe did.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJohnson v. McIntosh\u003c\/em\u003e and its impact offers a comprehensive historical and legal overview of Native land rights since the European discovery of the New World. Watson sets the case in rich historical context. After tracing Anglo-American views of Native land rights to their European roots, Watson explains how speculative ventures in Native lands affected not only Indian peoples themselves but the causes and outcomes of the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and ratification of the Articles of Confederation. He then focuses on the transactions at issue in \u003cem\u003eJohnson\u003c\/em\u003e between the Illinois and Piankeshaw Indians, who sold their homelands, and the future shareholders of the United Illinois and Wabash Land Companies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe final chapters highlight the historical legacy of \u003cem\u003eJohnson v. McIntosh\u003c\/em\u003e on federal policy with regard to Indian lands. Taught to first-year law students as the root of title for real property in the United States, the case has also been condemned by the United Nations and others as a Eurocentric justification for the subjugation of the Indians. Watson argues that the United States should formally repudiate the discovery doctrine set forth in Johnson v. McIntosh.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe thorough backstory and\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eanalysis in this book will deepen our understanding of one of the most important cases in both federal Indian law and in American property law.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWatson, Blake A.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eBlake A. Watson\u003c\/b\u003e has served as an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice and is now Professor of Law at the University of Dayton.","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50523780743442,"sku":"9780806142449","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8e5d7303-0723-44fb-b2e7-96b09515a9aa.jpg?v=1767093677","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/buying-america-from-the-indians-johnson-v-mcintosh-and-the-history-of-native-land-rights-9780806142449","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}