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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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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State cessions (redirect from Western land claims)
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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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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Territorial dispute (redirect from Land claim dispute)
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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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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Seizure of the Black Hills (redirect from Black Hills Land Claim)
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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Aboriginal title (redirect from Aboriginal land claim)
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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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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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...
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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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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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Homestead Acts (redirect from Homestead Claim Act of 1862)
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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Belize (redirect from Indigenous land claims in Belize)
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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Nonintercourse Act (section Land claims litigation)
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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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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Boer republics (section 2014 land claim)
(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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Warlpiri people (section Joint land claim)
was the 11th traditional land claim presented on behalf of Aboriginal traditional owners by the Central Land Council. The land borders on areas in which...
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Siksika Nation (section Land claims)
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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Faleolo International Airport (section Land claim)
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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