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Collection: Directories and Documents > Tanis Thorne Native Californian & Nisenan Collection

History and Proposed Settlement Claims of California Indians (1944) (35 pages)

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ON ate 5 it noe ronnieb teabane nn op snccasaeediii 2 HISTORY AND PROPOSED SETTLEMENT The Indians were also promised in the treaties the services of physicians, teachers and other instructors From the execution of the first treaty with the Delawares in 1778 the United States has pursued a uniform course in extinguishing Indian title only with the consent of those tribes which were recognized as having claim to the soil by reason of occupancy, and such consent has been expressed in treaties in which compensation in some form was provided. During the period from 1778 to 1871 when the further negotiation and execution of treaties with Indian tribes was prohibited by the Act of March 3, 1871 (16 Stat. 566) not less than three hundred and seventy treaties were made and ratified. And even after that date numerous agreements were made with the Indian tribes which accomplished the same purpose as treaties. The policy, therefore, of entering into treaties with the Indian tribes in California, in the years 1851-52, was well established and was continued in operation all through the western states down to the year 1871 when, as stated above, it was changed by statute. It is clear that the United States did recognize the rights of occupancy of the Indians in California and PORN 2 AM PRE YT PN ESR BETTY PUTT TN FLO CINE OTRO FRO CI TENEERL DTT st a re et