Buying America from the Indians: Johnson v. McIntosh and the History of Native Land Rights

by Blake A. Watson and Watson

Book Overview

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Johnson v. McIntosh 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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806142448
• ISBN13: 9780806142449
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 514 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.3"