Indian land tenure : bibliographical essays and a guide to the literature

Sutton, Imre 1928- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0883541041
ISBN: 9780883541043
ISBN: 0883541068 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780883541067 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xiii, 290 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : Clearwater Pub. Co., [1975]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-276) and indexes.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: Indian land tenure: the structure and content of the literature -- Aboriginal occupancy and territoriality. Introduction ; Interpretation of Native land tenure ; Territoriality and tribal distributions -- Land cessions and the establishment of reservations. Introduction ; Colonial land policies and the Indian ; Westward expansion and Indian lands ; The reservation idea -- Land administration and land utilization. Introduction ; The Indian land base ; The condition of the Indians ; Legal facets of land administration ; The reservation as a land institution ; Land policy, management and tenure -- Aboriginal title and land claims. Introduction ; The Indian Claims Commission and the law ; Land claims and alternative means of redress -- Title clarification and change. Introduction ; Opening of and encroachment upon Indian lands ; Land allotment ; Land leasing ; Heirship and alienation ; Termination of trusteeship -- Tenure and jurisdiction. Introduction ; The Indian reservation as a political-geographical place ; Treaty rights: hunting and fishing ; Water rights ; Reservoirs and Indian lands ; Minerals and mining ; Some conclusions -- Land tenure and culture change. Introduction ; Euro-American institutions and the Indian ; The reservation and the larger society.