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    or unresolved land claims. Some types of land claims include aboriginal land claims, Antarctic land claims, and post-colonial land claims. The term is...
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  • up claim in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Claim may refer to: Claim (legal) Claim of Right Act 1689 Claims-based identity Claim (philosophy) Land claim...
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    claims over trans-Appalachian land for another decade, and this claim was complicated by the fact that much of the land was also disputed between the...
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    The Donation Land Claim Act of 1850, sometimes known as the Donation Land Act, was a statute enacted by the United States Congress in late 1850, intended...
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    even by Antarctic standards, most of Marie Byrd Land (the portion east of 150°W) has not been claimed by any sovereign state. It is by far the largest...
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    of the land for France on 21 January 1840 at 17:30. The British eventually decided to recognize this claim, and the border between Adélie Land and the...
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    18th century and drove out the other tribes, who moved west. They claimed the land, which they called Ȟe Sápa (Black Mountains). The mountains commonly...
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  • Indigenous land claims in 1973. Federal policy divided the claims in two categories: comprehensive claims and specific claims. Comprehensive claims deal with...
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  • The Nunavut Land Claims Agreement (NCLA, French: L'Accord sur les revendications territoriales du Nunavut) was signed on May 25, 1993, in Iqaluit, by...
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    Terra nullius (redirect from Unclaimed land)
    meaning "nobody's land". Since the nineteenth century it has occasionally been used in international law as a principle to justify claims that territory...
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    of the rival state only as not containing the claimed territory, in spite of who actually governs the land and how it is recognised in the international...
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    Mohican Resort and Casino. In settlement of a large land claim in New York, where the tribe had occupied land in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, in...
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    The Narragansett land claim was one of the first litigations of aboriginal title in the United States in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark...
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    The Montauk Point land claim was a series of three lawsuits brought by Chief Wyandank Pharaoh, nephew of the Stephen Talkhouse who died in the same year...
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  • The Yukon Land Claims refer to the process of negotiating and settling Indigenous land claim agreements in Yukon, Canada between First Nations and the...
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  • Indigenous specific land claims in Canada, also called specific claims, are long-standing land claims made by First Nations against the Government of...
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    movement for decolonization. Land Back aims to reestablish Indigenous political authority over territories that Indigenous tribes claim by treaty. Scholars from...
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    it for more than six months at a time. The Donation Land Claim Act allowed settlers to claim land in the Oregon Territory, then including the modern states...
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    The Culbertson Tract Land Claim, located in the Canadian Province of Ontario in Hastings County, is a specific land claim originally submitted by the Mohawks...
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    longitude, a claim that is not universally recognized (there are 415 nmi (769 km; 478 mi) of ocean between the Pole and Canada's northernmost land point)....
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  • to regulate land sales in places where there was little or no legal apparatus to deal with land-related quarrels of any size. Some claim clubs sought...
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    elements of the modern aboriginal title doctrine, upholding a customary land claim and urging the need to "study of the history of the particular community...
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    variously claim that Israel has title to the land by divine right, or by a theological, historical and moral grounding of attachment to the land unique to...
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    land claims were explicitly barred from Claims Courts by statute. The Indian Claims Commission Act of 1946 (ICCA) created forum of Indian land claims...
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    (FN) submitted a land claim to the Land Claims Commissioner in Pretoria on behalf of the Afrikaner nation. The claim pertains to the land described in National...
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    was begun by English settlers in 1638. Spain and Britain both laid claim to the land until Britain defeated the Spanish in the Battle of St. George's Caye...
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  • provides: No purchase, grant, lease, or other conveyance of land, or of any title or claim thereto, from any Indian nation or tribe of Indians, shall be...
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    2012). "Samoan village battles land claim". NewsHub. Retrieved 22 September 2021. "Samoa Police Increase Security For Land Survey Near Airport". Pacific...
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  • acquired the rights to the land for the dam. The Nation entered into negotiations with the Canadian government to settle the land claim. In 1991, the Siksika...
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    Division 11. The Labrador Inuit Association had filed a land claim for portions of Labradorian land in 1977. In 1988, the Labrador Inuit Association, the...
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