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Some American Indian tribes have also established water rights through the courts based on their traditional diversion and use of certain waters prior to the United States` acquisition of sovereignty.(2.由于历史原因,印第安部落在美国建国之前就开始使用一些水域,因此他们如今可获得此水权。) For example, ...
Charles D. Bernholz, American Indian Treaties and the Supreme Court:A Guide to Treaty CitationsffomBernholz, C. D. (2004). American Indian treaties and the Supreme Court: A guide to treaty citations from opinions of the United States Supreme Court. Journal of Government Information 30, 318-...
These Indian tribes are the wards of the nation. They are communities dependent on the United States. Dependent largely for their daily food. Dependent for their political rights. They owe no allegiance to the States, and receive from them no protection. Because of the local ill feeling, the...
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21 (1786). But the United States became anxious to secure the lands the Indians occupied in order to allow for westward expansion. The Choctaws, in an attempt to avoid what proved to be their fate, entered into a series of treaties gradually relinquishing their claims to these lands. [...
However, as more and more people pushed westward, the Indian Territory would encompass the present states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and part of Iowa. Through treaties, many tribes were pushed into this region. However, the Indian Territory shrank as much of this area became states, ...
The legislative history of the Federal Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994 states that recognition of a tribe is critical, not just to the tribe's interests, but to the legitimacy of federal power, as the Constitution empowers Congress to legislate only with respect to Indian tribes ...
forced a series of treaties and land cessions by the tribes, and established reservations for them in many western states. U.S. agents encouraged Native Americans to adopt European-style farming and similar pursuits, but European-American agricultural technology of the time was inadequate for often...
Distinctive principles of construction have been developed for the purpose of interpreting the scope of Indian treaties, partially due to the United States' "superior negotiating skills and superior knowledge of the language in which * * * [treaties were] recorded, * * *." Washington v. Washingt...