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American Property Law and Federal Indian Law have a conjoined history going back to Johnson v. MʻIntosh, 21 U.S. (8 Wheat.) 543 (1823), where the Supreme Court ruled that private citizens could not purchase aboriginal title from Indians. Decades later, the Dawes General Allotment Act of 1887 resulted in non-Indian fee simple landowners purchasing what the Federal Government deemed “surplus” feder…
Deepanshu Rawat, Law College Dehradun, Uttaranchal University, Dehradun. Prof (Dr.) Anil Dixit, Professor, Law College Dehradun, Uttaranchal University, Dehradun. ABSTRACT Tourism has proved to be an important source of economic development towards India especially ecologically sensitive areas with unique cultures of people residing in these areas. Nevertheless, such growth in the tourism industr…
Niranjan Baghwar, Jharkhand Rai University Ankita Toppo, Jharkhand Rai University ABSTRACT Jharkhand is home to one of India's largest tribal populations, yet tribal communities continue to lose their land at an alarming rate, not because the law fails to protect them, but because the institutions meant to enforce that law have collapsed under the weight of systemic dysfunction. This article exam…
Volume 24/1, June 2022, pp. 21-33 |  PDF
Robin P. Love, Billie-Jo Hardy, Courtney Heffernan, Amber Heyd, Melissa Cardinal-Grant, Lori Sparling, Bonnie Healy, Janet Smylie, and Richard Long
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Indigenous rights to self-determination…
