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| | Cochise County Settlements and Land Claims |
 | | Most of the claims when they finally were adjudicated were held to be much less land than claimed. | | | In 1875 the commisioner of the General Land Office complained that that it had been "more than twenty years since the surveyor-general of New Mexico commenced the examination of claims in that Territory" and "less than one hundred and fifty claims" of the "more than one thousand" pending had been sent to Congress for approval. | | | Determining the validity of these land claims was difficult. |
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http://mason.gmu.edu/~kshupe/hist615/vectors/cochise/cochise_land.html
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| | Western Land Claims |
| | North Carolina attempted to surrender its western claims in 1784. | | | The claims to the western lands were usually rooted in the vague wording of old colonial charters. | | | The ceding of western lands by the states was accompanied by a series of laws passed by the Articles Congress to organize the areas and prepare them for statehood. |
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http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1160.html
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| | Just Earth! |
| | In 1979, despite Western Shoshone attempts to stop the proceedings, the United States Court of Claims awarded less than $27 million – the 1872 value, from the ICC’s point of view, without interest – to the tribe to be held by the Interior Department. | | | It argued that the Sisters’ claims are not human rights issues but rather involve lengthy litigation of land. | | | The Western Shoshones did not cede their lands to the United States and are still fighting for the recognition of their rights to their ancestral homeland. |
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http://www.amnestyusa.org/justearth/indigenous_people/western_shoshone.html
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| | Clackamas County Land Claims |
| | These orginal land claims were filed throughout the 1850s and were, by modern standards, huge swaths of land. | | | Land Record Clackamas County [Land Claims], 1850 (1 volume); 1850 (microfilm) at the Oregon State Archives. | | | According to Oregon Donation Land Claim law, any provisional claim filed before December 1, 1851(by whatever nationality) was preserved with the sipulation that the claimant had to be in Oregon already and occupy the land for four years. |
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http://www.usgennet.org/alhnorus/ahorclak/land.html
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| | Land Claims in East Timor |
| | He concludes that resolving competing land claims is ultimately an issue for the people of East Timor, and at page 17 calls for all interested parties "to move beyond the emotive politics of land and forge a compromise based on a transparent and sustainable land claims framework." | | | Fitzpatrick, Daniel (2002) Land Claims in East Timor. | | | Among the issues discussed, the author questions the extent to which the United Nations Transitional Authority in East Timor (UNTAET), which was established by the United Nations Security Council in the aftermath of the 1999 violence, should consider the issue of land claims. |
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http://www.etan.org/et2003/april/07/15land.htm
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| | iachrfinalreport.doc |
| | The Western Shoshone have long insisted that they never relinquished their ancestral lands to the US and that US claims to the land are based on discriminatory and illegitimate processes. | | | The Commission concluded that US claims to Western Shoshone ancestral lands are illegal according to international human rights law. | | | The ICC ultimately declared that the Western Shoshone had lost their land to white encroachment, despite protests from the Indians that they still lived on, used and controlled the land the agency said they had lost. |
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http://www.wsdp.org/resources/iachrfinalreport.doc
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| | Indian Land Claims |
| | The English had to consider the land claims of other tribes besides the Powhatans, however. | | | At times, the English just finessed the native land claims, ignoring them while granting "patents" or legal claim for ownership of portions of Virginia to European settlers. | | | Some native claims were extinguished through negotiation, and several treaties were signed by Virginia governors - see the Treaties Defining the Boundaries Separating English and Native American Territories for a simple list of the main treaties signed in the 18th Century. |
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http://www.virginiaplaces.org/classschedule/6indlandclaims.html
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| | DRAFT STATEMENT |
| | Section 2 of H.R. 884 proposes to distribute the Western Shoshone land claims funds that were awarded in Docket 326-K, one hundred percent (100%) per capita to approximately 6,500 individuals who have at least one-quarter (1/4) degree of Western Shoshone Blood. | | | The judgment funds stem from two claims that were filed by the Te-Moak Bands of Western Shoshone in the Indian Claims Commission in 1951. | | | Since 1980, when the BIA held its first Hearing of Record on the distribution of the land claims judgment funds, a large segment of the Western Shoshone people have indicated that they are in favor of the judgment fund distribution. |
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http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/108cong/full/2003jun18/olsen884.htm
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| | Apology is fine but justice is better |
| | More than 50 years ago, the Indian Claims Commission determined that Western Shoshone lands in Nevada had been taken by "gradual encroachment." In 1946, that commission awarded $27 million to the tribe -- the 1872 value of the 24 million acres and the money has been collecting interest in a bank account since 1979. | | | The entire land claim process was designed with one goal: Get tribes to take money to resolve messy land claims. | | | In 1985 the court said the Indian Claims Commission had made an award -- even if no money had changed hands -- and had therefore completed the process. |
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/181495_trahant11.html
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| | divisch06.html |
| | Western Land Claims Ceded by the States (40K) |
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http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/divine5e/chapter98/medialib/divisch06.html
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| | Alaskool - Alaska Native Land Claims - Unit 4, Chapter 19 |
| | Congressional hearings on proposed claims legislation had been held in 1969, but no bill had emerged from either committee. | | | Distribution on the basis of a region's population as urged by a majority of AFN members, was characterized by Arctic Slope executive director Charles Edwardsen, Jr., as "welfare legislation," not a land claims settlement. | | | He said that an inadequate settlement bill would make the Alaska Native people as homeless as the Jewish people were before the nation of Israel was created for them. |
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http://www.alaskool.org/PROJECTS/ancsa/landclaims/LandClaims_Unit4_Ch19.htm
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| | Settling Land Claims (PRB 99-17E) |
| | Specific land claims arise from alleged non-fulfilment of treaties or other legal obligations, or from the alleged improper administration of lands and other assets under the Indian Act or other formal agreements. | | | The establishment of a permanent independent commission for specific claims has been another ongoing land claims issue. | | | Thirteen comprehensive claims have been settled since the federal government began to negotiate claims in 1973: |
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http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/library/PRBpubs/prb9917-e.htm
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| | ICT [2000/07/12] Shoshone divided over $121 million federal payment |
| | A non-profit, grass-roots organization called the Western Shoshone Claims Steering Committee supports the legislation and says it does not endanger other tribal claims regarding such things as land, grazing, hunting and fishing claims. | | | Four Western Shoshone tribal governments - the Ely, Yomba, Duckwater and Te-Moak - in Nevada oppose the legislation because they want to make sure that tribal claims against the United States are not waived by accepting the $121 million. | | | He says the Shoshone have claims to what amounts to two-thirds of the state of Nevada and wants to make sure that nothing jeopardizes that. |
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http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=760
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| | The Namibian Africa News More land invasions feared in SA |
| | Last week Western Cape land claims commissioner Allan Roberts went on an emergency mission to the rural areas, including the Karoo and the southern Cape, after reports of organised land invasions reached his office. | | | The Land Claims Commission says areas where claims will be prioritised include Langebaan, Malmesbury, Franschhoek, Ndabeni, Simon's Town, Grabouw, Prince Albert and Mossel Bay. | | | Ruth Hall, a senior researcher at the Centre for Rural Legal Studies, said there was a growing need for land in the Western Cape, especially in the rural parts of the province, where there was a rising trend of retrenchment and evictions from farms. |
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http://www.namibian.com.na/2001/July/africa/0129AC909.html
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| | Charlotte Beach Land Claims Settlement Act |
| | (1) To settle the land claims of the Tribes against the landowners. | | | (A) The lands chosen and acquired by the Community for transfer to the United States to be held in trust for the Community as part of the settlement of the claims of the Community to the Charlotte Beach Lands. | | | Upon the taking of the Alternative Lands into trust, any and all potential claims of the Sault Tribe in and to the Charlotte Beach Lands shall be relinquished and extinguished thereby, and the lands taken into trust shall become part of the Sault Tribe's reservation. |
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http://www.theorator.com/bills107/hr1634.html
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| | For the Western Shoshone |
| | The Western Shoshone land claims case is a contemporary, classic, textbook example of Manifest Destiny. | | | Increasingly, urban sprawl, mining, military testing have been managed under the assumption that the land had transferred title -- that Western Shoshones had no say over it, or any claim whatsoever to the wealth emerging from their ancestral tribal properties and lands. | | | He is correct, but what of the Western Shoshones, who had already "gained and held" those large land positions? |
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http://www.propertyrightsresearch.org/for_the_western_shoshone.htm
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| | Balfour disowns land bill ajc.com |
| | A Bainbridge newspaper recently called SB 5 "the most outrageously repugnant piece of legislative claptrap since the [1795] Yazoo Land Fraud." That scandal involved Georgia lawmakers who took bribes for selling the state's western land claims. | | | Balfour said he didn't believe it was the bill's intent to expand the power of governments to seize private land under the power of eminent domain. | | | Moody could not be reached for comment Wednesday. |
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http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/legis05/0205/03balfour.html
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| | TEMPLE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON |
| | In 1795 a group of land speculators, many of them from the North, bribed the Georgia legislature into selling them the greater part of its western land claims, in what is now Alabama and Mississippi, for only $500,000. | | | Many of his democratic views came from his experience as a resident of the western part of the colony, near the frontier, where he saw the colonists carve a civilization out of the wilderness. | | | Later, however, the nullification doctrine was used by supporters of states' rights to deny what the Federalists thought the Constitution had settled: that the federal government was the primary government of the land. |
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http://www.sangha.net/messengers/jefferson.htm
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| | Elias Boudinot |
| | September 13 Adopts stipulations concerning the cession of Virginia's western land claims; confirms acquittal of leaders of the Philadelphia mutiny. | | | June 20 Debates Virginia cession of western land claims. | | | June 4 Debates Virginia cession of western land claims; refers offers to locate the Continental capital at Kingston, N.Y., or Annapolis, Md., to the states (to be debated October 6). |
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http://www.eliasboudinot.com/boudinot/boudinot3
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| | New Georgia Encyclopedia: Yazoo Land Fraud |
| | Georgia was too weak after the Revolution to defend its vast western land claims, called the "Yazoo lands" | | | As cotton culture spread across Georgia, the national government proved unable to extinguish quickly enough for land-hungry Georgians the claims of the Creeks and Cherokees to lands within the state. | | | To prevent those claiming lands under the Yazoo purchase from receiving a sympathetic hearing in a Congress dominated by Federalists, Jackson and his lieutenants blocked any cession of the western territory until the Republicans were in control. |
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http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-663
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| | The Sixteen Colonies. - AlternateHistory.com Discussion Board |
| | plus why whould the Eastern States give up their Western land Claims, | | | The thirteen colonies had no claims to the west at all at that time | | | Also pre ARW there was lots of tension between the landowners in the east [tidewater]and the new Settlers in the mountains, over control of the western lands. |
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http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=3610
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| | State of Tennessee Historical Facts |
| | Land speculation was based upon cheaply amassing large amounts of western land, or claims to it, in hopes that increased immigration would raise the price of these lands. | | | North Carolina had used these lands as a means of rewarding its Revolutionary soldiers, and in the Cession Act of 1789 it reserved the right to satisfy further land claims in Tennessee. | | | The sale of public land was closely linked to Indian affairs, because settlers would not travel to the new land until it was safe and could not legally settle on lands until Indian title was extinguished. |
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http://www.dyersburgscene.com/tennessee_history1.htm
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| | Aboriginal Canada Portal: Saskatchewan - Claims and Treaties |
| | Status of Claims in Saskatchewan – Specific Claims Branch (Map) (PDF) | | | Inquiries – Mediation – Indian Claims Commission (Status of Claims in Saskatchewan) | | | Aboriginal Canada Portal: Saskatchewan - Claims and Treaties |
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http://fcva.ca/acp/site.nsf/en/ao20262.html
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| | ICT [2002/05/13] Reid Pushes Western Shoshone Settlement |
| | The Claims Commission never litigated the issue of title," said Chief Raymond Yowell of the Western Shoshone National Council. | | | Any language that encourages Western Shoshone people to believe that they can accept the claims "award" without prejudicing their efforts to enforce the terms of 1863 treaty is patently false, said Steven Newcomb of the Indigenous Law Institute. | | | Dann that the claims award itself prevents the Western Shoshone from defending their territorial title in court, it never dealt with the question of title. |
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http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1021246344
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| | Land Claims |
| | The Labrador Inuit are the only group who have not yet settled their outstanding aboriginal land claims. | | | Along with other Native groups in the North and in the rest of Canada, the Inuit initiates land claim negotiations with the federal government. | | | The 1960's saw the rise of Inuit political consciousness. |
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http://collections.ic.gc.ca/arctic/inuit/claims.htm
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| | GS250 |
| | Maryland held out, and the western land claims | | | After the Revolutionary War, many states claimed all of the western land | | | strips of land were claimed by more than one state. |
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http://ibach.homestead.com/GS250.html
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| | Western Shoshone Issues on www.wordsasweapons.com |
| | 8.26.2002: The Washington Post reports on the Western Shoshone land claims issue... | | | The Shundahai Network - A Western Shoshone directed global healing and activist network | | | 5.2002: VIDEO AVAILABLE - A VHS video on Western Shoshone history which you can order and show locally |
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http://www.wordsasweapons.com/shoshone.htm
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| | Western Shoshone Nation Requests Your Immediate Assistance!! |
| | While Reid claims that this legislation is necessary to lift Western Shoshone people out of poverty, it does nothing to change the conditions which have led to this supposed poverty, mainly a lack of sovereignty and denial of access to traditional lands and resources. | | | Instead, a faction of Western Shoshone known as the Western Shoshone Claims Steering Committee developed the legislation in secret with the assistance of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Senator Reid’s office. | | | The U.S. insists that all Shoshone rights to their homelands have been extinguished as a result of proceedings before the Indian Claims Commission. |
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http://www.shundahai.org/wsdp_action_alert_0801.htm
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| | Treaty of Hartford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In the 1786 treaty New York and Massachusetts reached an agreement on their western land claims. | | | Similar western boundary issues involving these and other states were resolved by the Northwest Ordinance passed by the Continental Congress in July of 1787. | | | The area in dispute included all of western New York State west of Seneca Lake, extending all the way to the Niagara River and Lake Erie, and from the shore of Lake Ontario to the Pennsylvania border. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Hartford
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