US courts resolved frontier land disputes by denying Indian transferable title

Evidence

The other side in the case argued that the fullest possible title to the lands had, on the contrary, vested in the government of the United States as the successor to the British Crown, and the Crown in turn had acquired this title on discovery. It would follow from this that the Indians would not have had a transferable title. In an extended declamation, one of obscene eloquence, Marshall accepted that argument. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 226

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 226
• XREF: connects to: 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