US courts stripped indigenous land claims through takings and laches rulings
Evidence
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: 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