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Land claim over nonintercourse act must be heard in federal court.(Case Law Abstracts)(Unalachtigo Band of the Nanticoke Lenni Lenape Nation v. State of New Jersey)
Native American Law Report; 3/1/2005; Jervis, Bruce; 492 words
; ... that a land claim based upon on a violation of the Indian Nonintercourse Act (INA) had to be heard in federal court. And questions of ... alienation ... The proper forum for plaintiffs to advance their Nonintercourse claim is exclusively the federal courts. The court also ...
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A timeline of the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980
Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME; 10/8/2005; 787 words
; ... passes the Federal Trade and Nonintercourse Act, which prohibits states from ... 1794: Despite presence of Nonintercourse Act, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ... should be protected under the Nonintercourse Act. 1972: In order to preserve ...
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Paugussett land claims resurface: judge asks for update.(Cover Story)
Fairfield County Business Journal; 11/1/2004; Strempel, Dan; 787 words
; ... Their claim is that the federal Nonintercourse Act applies to them. But that is ... group, he said. The 1790 Indian Nonintercourse Act prohibited the sale of Indian ... alleging a violation of the Nonintercourse Act, he said. The decision led ...
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Seneca win Cuba Lake land claim
Indian Country Today (Lakota Times); 12/14/1998; 410 words
; ... federal law first enacted in 1790s, called the Nonintercourse Act, requires that federal consent be obtained when ... that the state of New York also violated the 1790 Nonintercourse Act when it obtained the Grand Island lands from the ...
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Court already ruled in previous case that tribe is successor in interest.(Indian Case Law Abstracts)(Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma v. Town of Aurelius)
Native American Law Report; 9/1/2004; Jervis, Bruce; 421 words
; ... York in 1807, allegedly in violation of the Indian Nonintercourse Act, 25 U.S.C. sec. 177. The Seneca-Cayuga Tribe started ... the taking of the land in violation of the Indian Nonintercourse Act. Appeal of that decision is currently pending in ...
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Fund Indian water and land settlements
Indian Country Today (Lakota Times); 3/29/2000; Echohawk, John; 573 words
; ... tribal water and land claims. Water rights cases based on the 1908 Winters Doctrine and land cases based on the 1790 Nonintercourse Act as amended were filed and began working their way through the courts. As tribal rights to water and land became ...
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NEW JERSEY RESORT ANGLING FOR CASINO CREATING ENCLAVE FOR INDIAN TRIBE CIRCUMVENTS LAW THAT ENABLES ATLANTIC CITY CASINOS.(News/National/International)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 8/9/1998; 271 words
; ... sits on ancestral land appropriated by white settlers without the Congressional approval required under the Indian Nonintercourse Act of 1790. ``What we wanted was to get that out of the courts and settle it,'' Mayor Fred Wager told Reuters. But ...
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AMERICAN INDIAN BILLS:TOM YOUNKER
Congressional Testimony; 7/11/2007; 787 words
; ... year old statute called the Federal Nonintercourse Act (25 USC Section 177). Federal Nonintercourse Act: 25 USC S.177 During George Washington ... president, Congress adopted the Federal Nonintercourse Act to stop unscrupulous traders from taking ...
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FEDERAL RECOGNITION OF INDIAN GROUPS:KAREN CANTRELL
Congressional Testimony; 9/15/1999; 787 words
; ... Recognition Administrative Procedures Act of 1998 15 September 1999 Statement ... through special legislation. See e.g., Act of October 10, 1980, 94 Stat. 1785 (Maliseet Tribe of Maine); Act of October 18, 1983, 97 Stat. 851 (Mashantucket Pequot Tribe of Connecticut), Act of November 26, 1991, 105 ...
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Tribal land claim damages lost through time, appeals court rules.(Cayuga Indian Nation of New York v. Pataki)
Native American Law Report; 7/1/2005; Jervis, Bruce; 705 words
; ... all but three square miles of the reservation from the Cayugas. This purchase clearly violated the federal Indian Nonintercourse Act. The federal government took no steps to block the transaction. Almost two centuries later, in 1980, the Cayuga ...
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