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Indian grant

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a grant of land in a region formerly inhabited by Indians.

Quotations

1791

The various and almost unlimited claims made by Individuals to Tracts of Land by virtue of Indian Grants have been a great cause of keeping the Country unsettled and will so long as they are suffered to exist.