Native claims : indigenous law against empire, 1500-1920 /
Belmessous, Saliha.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
c2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Possessing empire : Iberian claims and interpolity law / Lauren Benton -- Law, land and legal rhetoric in colonial New Spain : a look at the changing rhetoric of indigenous Americans in the sixteenth century / R. Jovita Baber -- Court and chronicle : a native Andean's engagement with Spanish colonial law / Rolena Adorno -- Powhatan legal claims / Andrew Fitzmaurice -- Wabanaki versus French and English claims in northeastern North America, c. 1715 / Saliha Belmessous -- "Chief princes and owners of all" : Native American appeals to the crown in the early-modern British Atlantic / Craig Yirush -- Framing and reframing the agon : contesting narratives and counter-narratives on Maori property rights and political constitutionalism, 1840-1861 / Mark Hickford -- "Bring this paper to the good governor" : aboriginal petitioning in Britain's Australian colonies / Ann Curthoys and Jessie Mitchell -- The Native Land Court : making property in nineteenth-century New Zealand / Christopher Hilliard -- African and European initiatives in the transformation of land tenure in colonial Lagos (West Africa), 1840-1920 / Kristin Mann.
Indigenous peoples
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