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Seminole Tribe of Indians of Florida v. Florida, No. 78-cv-6116 (S.D. Fla.) Water rights None: Puyallup Tribe of Indians Settlement Act of 1989 [8] June 21, 1989: Puyallup: Excludes land from settlement in: Puyallup Tribe of Indians v. Port of Tacoma, 717 F.2d 1251 (9th Cir. 1983) Aboriginal title: $162,000,000: Seneca Nation (New York) Land ...
In 1996 and 1998, the Interior Department, under Secretary Bruce Babbitt, approved the tribe's request to put 165 new acres (0.67 km 2) and 146 new acres (0.59 km 2), respectively, into trust. [61] The Supreme Court's decision in Carcieri v. Salazar (2009) prevents any further such transfers. [62]
English colonists arrived on the coast of Connecticut in the 1630s, coming into contact with the Mohegan people, who had been part of the Pequot. [4] Following the Pequot War of 1637, in which the Mohegan had allied with the colonists against the Pequot, Mohegan sachem Uncas ceded all Mohegan lands to the New England Colonies in 1640, with the exception of a reserve of farms and hunting grounds.
The old money versus new money distinction generally delineates between individuals or families with inherited wealth and status, versus those who have acquired it more recently through ...
Old-money estates often had separate living quarters for household staff or “the help,” as they would call them. Over time, the decline of live-in servants (major barf) and a growing ...
Cobell v. Salazar (previously Cobell v.Kempthorne and Cobell v.Norton and Cobell v.Babbitt) is a class-action lawsuit brought by Elouise Cobell and other Native American representatives in 1996 against two departments of the United States government: the Department of Interior and the Department of the Treasury for mismanagement of Indian trust funds.
With his new HBO series “The Gilded Age,” set in 1882 New York, the creator of “Downton Abbey” is bravely leading the mildewed charge back to days gone by, when robber barons papered over ...
Old money is "the inherited wealth of established upper-class families (i.e. gentry, patriciate)" or "a person, family, or lineage possessing inherited wealth". [1] It is a social class of the rich who have been able to maintain their wealth over multiple generations, often referring to perceived members of the de facto aristocracy in societies that historically lack an officially established ...