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Johnson v. McIntosh , [ a ] 21 U.S. (8 Wheat.) 543 (1823), also written M‘Intosh , is a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that held that private citizens could not purchase lands from Native Americans .
Johnson's Lessee v. McIntosh , 21 U.S. (8 Wheat.) 543 (1823) , is a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court which held private citizens could not purchase lands from Native Americans . The litigation began when the successor in interest to a private purchase from the Piankeshaw attempted to maintain an action of ejectment against the holder ...
Sims' Lessee v. Irvine (1799) was the first Supreme Court decision to discuss aboriginal title (albeit briefly), and the only such decision before the Marshall Court. The Court found ejectment jurisdiction over certain lands, notwithstanding the defendant's claim (in the alternative to the claim that the defendant himself held title) that the lands were still held in aboriginal title because:
Johnson v. McIntosh [38] proved that the new central government was in favor of sovereign property rights, by stating that private citizens could not purchase Native American land, and that the federal government has the sole right [39] to negotiate with tribal nations. Cherokee Nation v.
Ely S. Parker, the first indigenous plaintiff to prevail in the U.S. Supreme Court. The two aboriginal title cases involving indigenous litigants to reach the Taney Court both involved the Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians and the Tonawanda Reservation, both argued by John H. Martindale (first as the district attorney of Genesee County, New York, then in private practice), and both originated ...
Speaker Mike Johnson will face a major challenge in the new Congress – the narrowest House majority in nearly 100 years. That is, if he can keep the gavel. Republicans will soon control the ...
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William McIntosh (c. 1760 – July 1832; also printed as "M‘Intosh") [a] was a fur trader, treasurer of the Indiana Territory under William Henry Harrison, and real estate entrepreneur. He became famous for the United States Supreme Court case of Johnson v. McIntosh (1823) and for his massive real estate holdings on the Wabash River.