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Indian Land Claims Settlements are settlements of Native American land claims by the United States Congress, codified in 25 U.S.C. ch. 19. In several instances, these settlements ended live claims of aboriginal title in the United States. The first two—the Rhode Island Claims Settlement Act and the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act ...
The Cherokee Outlet, or Cherokee Strip, was located in what is now the state of Oklahoma in the United States. It was a 60-mile-wide (97 km) parcel of land south of the Oklahoma–Kansas border between 96 and 100°W. The Cherokee Outlet was created in 1836. The United States forced the Cherokee Nation of Indians to cede to the United States all ...
Land Rush of 1889
Apr. 1—Maine's lawmakers should have a greater say in the uses of leased public land, speakers told a legislative committee in a public hearing Thursday. The state's Constitution was amended in ...
Mar. 29—The Oklahoma Wildlife License Modernization Act was signed into law March 26 by Gov. Kevin Stitt, after it previously passed the state House of Representatives and Senate. The measure ...
Maine already has a yellow flag law that differs from other states’ so-called red flag laws, which allow family members to go directly to a judge. The yellow flag law requires police to initiate ...
Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian Reservation
The Maine Legislature approved sweeping gun safety legislation including background checks on private gun sales, waiting periods for gun purchases and criminalizing gun sales to prohibited people ...