Law

International Law

• The Doctrine of Discovery: The International Law of Colonialism

US Law

• Johnson v. McIntosh, March 10, 1823
• The Monroe Doctrine, December 2, 1823
• The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, December 6, 1904
• City of Sherrill, New York v. Oneida Indian Nation, Decided March 29, 2005
  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg:
    

    Under the “doctrine of discovery,” County of Oneida v. Oneida Indian Nation of N. Y., 470 U.S. 226, 234 (1985) (Oneida II), “fee title to the lands occupied by Indians when the colonists arrived became vested in the sovereign–first the discovering European nation and later the original States and the United States,” Oneida Indian Nation of N. Y. v. County of Oneida, 414 U.S. 661, 667 (1974) (Oneida I). In the original 13 States, “fee title to Indian lands,” or “the pre-emptive right to purchase from the Indians, was in the State.” Id., at 670; see Oneida Indian Nation of N. Y. v. New York, 860 F.2d 1145, 1159—1167 (CA2 1988). Both before and after the adoption of the Constitution, New York State acquired vast tracts of land from Indian tribes through treaties it independently negotiated, without National Government participation. See Gunther, Governmental Power and New York Indian Lands–A Reassessment of a Persistent Problem of Federal-State Relations, 8 Buffalo L. Rev. 1, 4—6 (1959) (hereinafter Gunther).

• Statement on the Historical Use of the Doctrine of Christian Discovery by the United States Supreme Court Since 1823 By Joseph J. Heath, Esq. Onondaga Nation General Counsel.
• Native American Law in the Modern Era in the Albany Government Law Review vol. 10 is. 1&2 2016-17
• 2018 Panel on “United States Indian Law.”