American Indian Land Ownership

I do not claim a general interest in American Indians but rather an interest in their landownership or, more precisely, how they, individuallly and collectively were dispossessed of their land
 
My research focuses on the history of landownership in the United States so, inevitably, I am interested how the United States government acquired the occupancy and use rights of American Indian bands via various treaties and then acquired a large proportion of the land in the reservations established for those bands

Inevitably, such research leads to the way in which the various United States courts have dealt with the government dealings

I have been involved in two federal court cases,

•  Mille Lacs Chippewa et al v the State of Minnesota et al, was eventually decided by the U.S. Supreme Court

• United States, Bay Mills Indian Community, et al. v State of Michigan et al was settled before any trial took place