The New Indian Claims and Original Rights to Land
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Fall 1977
ISSN
2154-123X
Publisher
Florida State University Department of Philosophy
Language
en-US
Abstract
Most Americans take this country's possession of its territory for granted, even though we all know that a great deal of its land was wrested by force or fraud from those who occupied it before the Europeans came--from Native Americans, who were dispossessed and either massacred or subjugated, the survivors displaced from their homelands and in large part consigned to live on shrinking reservations. The monumental theft of land that was involved in the European conquest of America is regarded as a neutral fact about the past with little, if any, practical bearing on the present.
Recommended Citation
David B. Lyons,
The New Indian Claims and Original Rights to Land
,
in
4
Social Theory and Practice
249
(1977).
Available at:
https://doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract19774311
