TY  - BOOK
AU  - Belmessous,Saliha
TI  - Native claims: indigenous law against empire, 1500-1920 
SN  - 9780199386116
AV  - K3248.L36 N38 2011
U1  - 341.4852 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Indigenous peoples
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - History
KW  - Claims
N1  - Originally issued in hardcover 2011; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: The Problem of Indigenous Claim Making in Colonial History; Saliha Belmessous --; 1; Possessing Empire: Iberian Claims and Interpolity Law; Lauren benton --; 2.; Law, Land, and Legal Rhetoric in Colonial New Spain: A Look at the Changing Rhetoric of Indigenous Americans in the Sixteenth Century; R J Baber  --; 3; Court and Chronicle: A Native Andean's Engagement with Spanish Colonial Law; R. Adorno --; 4; Powhatan Legal Claims; A. Fitzmaurice --; 5; Wabanaki versus French and English Claims in Northeastern North America, c. 1715; Saliha Belmessous --; 6; "Chief Princes and Owners of All": Native American Appeals to the Crown in the Early-Modern British Atlantic; C. Yirush --; 7; Framing and Reframing the Agon : Contesting Narratives and Counternarratives on Maori Property Rights and Political Constitutionalism, 1840-1861; Mark Hickford --; 8; "Bring this paper to the Good Governor": Aboriginal Petitioning in Britain's Australian Colonies; A Curthoys --; 9; The Native Land Court: Making Property in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand; C Hilliard --; 10; t African and European Initiatives in the Transformation of Land Tenure in Colonial Lagos (West Africa), 1840-1920; K. Mann
N2  - This groundbreaking collection of essays shows that, from the moment European expansion commenced through to the 20th century indigenous peoples from America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand drafted legal strategies to contest dispossession
ER  -