The Supreme Court denied American Indians the right to sell their land.

Evidence

See Johnson v. McIntosh, 21 U.S. (8 Wheat.) 543 (1823). Here the Supreme Court held that American Indians had no right to sell land, just the right of occupancy. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 746

Categorization

• SHARE: Anchor case for the doctrine that indigenous land rights were only occupancy rights.
• XREF: connects to: The federal purchase monopoly suppresses Native American land prices. — Supreme Court of the United States (Marshall Court, 1823), Johnson & Graham’s Lessee v. M’Intosh,…, 10; Courts voided private purchases of Indian land as unmarketable title. — Supreme Court of the United States (Marshall Court, 1823), Johnson & Graham’s Lessee v. M’Intosh,…, 5; Natives were rightful occupants but lacked power to sell their land. — Supreme Court of the United States (Marshall Court, 1823), Johnson & Graham’s Lessee v. M’Intosh,…, 169 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The federal purchase monopoly suppresses Native American land prices. — Supreme Court of the United States (Marshall Court, 1823), Johnson & Graham’s Lessee v. M’Intosh,…, 10; Courts voided private purchases of Indian land as unmarketable title. — Supreme Court of the United States (Marshall Court, 1823), Johnson & Graham’s Lessee v. M’Intosh,…, 5; Natives were rightful occupants but lacked power to sell their land. — Supreme Court of the United States (Marshall Court, 1823), Johnson & Graham’s Lessee v. M’Intosh,…, 169 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Johnson v. McIntosh denied Indians property ownership rights #corroborates (0.95) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 147