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    Aboriginal title in New York refers to treaties, purchases, laws and litigation associated with land titles of aboriginal peoples of New York, in particular...
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    The Treaty of New York was a treaty signed in 1790 between leaders of the Muscogee and U.S. Secretary of War Henry Knox, who served in the presidential...
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  • The Pulteney Association (category Aboriginal title in New York)
    Association was a small group of British investors who in 1792 purchased a large portion of the Western New York land tract known as the Phelps and Gorham Purchase...
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  • Ganienkeh (category Aboriginal title in New York)
    (meaning Land of the Flint in Mohawk) is a Mohawk community located on about 600 acres (2.4 km2) near Altona, New York in the far northeast corner of...
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  • Kanatsiohareke (category Aboriginal title in New York)
    Fonda, New York. The name means "The clean pots" and is derived from Canajoharie or "Upper Castle", one of the two major towns of the Mohawk nation in 1738...
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  • Second Treaty of Buffalo Creek (category Aboriginal title in New York)
    named for the Buffalo River in New York. The Second Treaty of Buffalo Creek, also known as the Treaty with the New York Indians, 1838, was signed on...
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    Phelps and Gorham Purchase (category Aboriginal title in New York)
    to New York State. The treaty established Massachusett's pre-emptive rights right to negotiate with the Iroquois nations for their aboriginal title to...
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    Treaty of Big Tree (category Aboriginal title in New York)
    Beauchamp, S.T.D., William M. (1908). "Aboriginal Place Names of New York". Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York. 26. Retrieved Oct 25, 2015. Houghton...
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    of aboriginal title (also known as "original Indian title" or "Indian right of occupancy"). Native American tribes and nations establish aboriginal title...
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  • Seneca Nation of Indians v. Christy (category Aboriginal title in New York)
    S. 283 (1896), was the first litigation of aboriginal title in the United States by a tribal plaintiff in the Supreme Court of the United States since...
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    Holland Land Company (category Aboriginal title in New York)
    tract purchased in Western New York was the portion of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase that lay west of the Genesee River. The aboriginal title to the land...
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    Treaty of Canandaigua (category Aboriginal title in New York)
    representing the United States of America. It was signed at Canandaigua, New York on November 11, 1794, by fifty sachems (hoya:ne:h) and war chiefs representing...
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  • First Treaty of Buffalo Creek (category Aboriginal title in New York)
    signed on July 8, 1788 Phelps and Gorham purchased title to lands east from the Genesee River in New York to the Preemption Line. Treaty of Canandaigua Treaty...
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  • Cheesecocks Patent (category Aboriginal title in New York)
    Cheesequake in New Jersey. Edward Manning Ruttenber, Footprints of the red man: Indian geographical names, 1906; William M. Beauchamp, "Aboriginal place names...
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    Treaty of Fort Harmar (category Aboriginal title in New York)
    Northwest Indian War Hogeland, William (2017). Autumn of the Black Snake. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 9780374107345. LCCN 2016052193. "Lewis...
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    Samuel Kirkland (category Aboriginal title in New York)
    present-day central New York State. He was a long-time friend of the Oneida chief Skenandoa. Kirkland graduated from Princeton in 1765. In 1793 as part of...
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    Line of Property (category Aboriginal title in New York)
    divide near Wheelerville in Sullivan County and then down Schrader Creek; this is the route later taken by the Susquehanna and New York Railroad and is the...
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    Wawayanda Patent (category Aboriginal title in New York)
    was a land grant in colonial New York. It was granted in 1703, to John Bridges and eleven associates by the governor of New York and New Jersey, Edward...
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  • Federal Power Commission v. Tuscarora Indian Nation (category Aboriginal title in New York)
    Commission and Power Authority of New York. The treaty limited the use of water during the nights and weekends. In order to overcome these times where...
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  • dispossessed of over six million acres of land in New York." However, the report was "buried" by New York State and not published until 1971. A meeting...
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  • Treaty of Fort McIntosh (category Aboriginal title in New York)
    ohiohistorycentral.org. Retrieved 2020-09-21. Laurence M. Hauptman, Conspiracy of Interests: Iroquois Dispossession and the Rise of New York State (2001)....
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    heard Fellows v. Blacksmith (1857) and New York ex rel. Cutler v. Dibble (1858), the first two aboriginal title cases involving indigenous plaintiffs to...
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  • Fourth Treaty of Buffalo Creek (category Aboriginal title in New York)
    of Buffalo Creek (1842) List of treaties Fellows v. Blacksmith (1857) New York ex rel. Cutler v. Dibble (1858) Treaty with the Seneca, Tonawanda Band...
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    Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people...
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  • Third Treaty of Buffalo Creek (category Aboriginal title in New York)
    the lands of the Seneca Indians, within the State of New York, as may from time to time remain in their possession from all taxes, and assessments for...
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    Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions (category Aboriginal title in New York)
    Gehring, Dr. Charles T. "Annals of New Netherland" (PDF). Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-26...
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  • Indian Nation of New York State, 470 U.S. 226 (1985), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning aboriginal title in the United States...
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  • Nation of New York v. County of Oneida, 414 U.S. 661 (1974), is a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court concerning aboriginal title in the United...
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    Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1784) (category Aboriginal title in New York)
    in present-day Rome, New York, and was the first of several treaties between Native Americans and the United States after the American victory in the...
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    Montauk Point land claim (category Aboriginal title in New York)
    Stephen Talkhouse who died in the same year (1879) that the tribe lost the last remaining vestige of their territory in the New York state courts, claiming...
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