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The Passamaquoddy (1975), Narragansett I and II (1976), and Mohegan (1980, 1982) cases occurred in the U.S. Supreme Court's Oneida I (1974) decision, which held that there was federal subject-matter jurisdiction for such claims. The Florida Indian (Miccosukee) Land Claims Settlement and Florida Indian (Seminole) Land Claims Settlement relate to ...
The Preemption Act of 1841 allowed settlers to claim up to 160 acres of federal land for themselves and prevent its sale to others including large landowners or corporations; they paid only a low fixed price of $1.25 per acre ($3.09 per hectare). [13]
The Southern Homestead Act opened up 46,398,544.87 acres (about 46 million acres or 190,000 km 2) of public land for sale in the Southern states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
As a corollary to this exception, a landowner has superior claim over a find made within the non-public areas of his property, so if a customer finds lost property in the public area of a store, the customer has superior claim to the lost property over that of the store-owner, but if the customer finds the lost property in the non-public area ...
This was the second time the Supreme Court had granted certiorari to the Oneida's land claim. Over a decade earlier, in Oneida Indian Nation of New York v.County of Oneida (1974), the Supreme Court had allowed the same suit to proceed by unanimously holding that there was federal subject-matter jurisdiction to hear the claim. [2]
The Indian Claims Commission (ICC) was a judicial relations arbiter between the United States federal government and Native American tribes.It was established under the Indian Claims Act of 1946 by the United States Congress to hear any longstanding claims of Indian tribes against the United States. [1]
Six former Florida State basketball players sued Seminoles coach Leonard Hamilton on Monday, alleging he failed to make good on a promise to get each of them $250,000 in name, image and likeness ...
The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act transferred land, federal money, and a portion of oil revenues to native Alaskans. The Apology Resolution of 1993 apologized for the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii, but gave no compensation. U.S. state governments have made reparations in some specific circumstances: