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Checkerboarding may make public land inaccessible when it is surrounded by privately owned land. [8] In 2021, hunters in Wyoming were charged with trespassing on private land they never actually set foot on when they crossed between two parcels of public land at the corner where they touched. [9] Landowners allege their airspace was violated.
Only a few states require their recording offices to maintain this type of index. Among these states are Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. In addition, some other states permit recording offices to maintain tract indexes (for example, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, Ohio, and Wisconsin).
The Menominee Indian Reservation technically consists of both a 360.8 sq mi (934.5 km 2) Indian reservation in Menominee County, Wisconsin and an adjacent 1.96 sq mi (5.08 km 2) plot of off-reservation trust land encompassing Middle Village in the town of Red Springs, in Shawano County, Wisconsin. These areas are governed as a single unit for ...
Chief Oshkosh went to look at the proposed site on the Crow River and rejected the offered land, saying their current land was better for hunting and game. The Menominee retained lands near the Wolf River in what became their current reservation. [22] The tribe originated in the Wisconsin and are living in their traditional homelands. [5]
The claimed homestead could include the same land which they had previously filed a preemption claim (on up to 160 acres at $1.25 per acre, or up to 80 acres of subdivided and surveyed land at $2.50 per acre), and they could expand their current ownership to contiguous adjacent land up to 160 acres total.
Indian Land Cessions in the United States is a widely used [1] atlas and chronology compiled by Charles C. Royce of Native American treaties with the U.S. government until 1896–97. Royce's maps are considered "the foundation of cartographic testimony in Indian land claims litigation."
According to the United States Census Bureau, the reservation has a total area of 177.66 square miles (460.1 km 2), of which 176.55 square miles (457.3 km 2) is land and 1.11 square miles (2.9 km 2) is water. The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska held an additional 0.179 square miles (115 acres; 0.46 km 2) of off-reservation trust land as of 2020. [1]
New Jersey: one-hundred acres of land, or real estate or personal property £50; New York: £40 of personal property or ownership of land; North Carolina: fifty acres of land; Pennsylvania: fifty acres of land or £50 of personal property; Rhode Island and Providence Plantations: personal property worth £40 or yielding 50 shillings annually