US courts have stripped Indigenous land rights through adverse rulings

Evidence

BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 99 Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States, 348 U.S. 272 (1955) (Court took away indigenous land rights in Alaska); City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York, 544 U.S. 197 (2005) (Court used laches to diminish the rights of the Oneida over land within their reservation). — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 1199

Categorization

• XREF: Notes the legal precedent that reparations advocates must grapple with given courts’ hostility to Indigenous land claims; useful for the strongest-objections section of a brief. — 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; Hawaiian customary land practice can override private paper title in court — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 829