DCHP-3

Indian title†

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the claim by Indians to rights of ownership of land by virtue of its being occupied by Indians before the coming of the white man.

Quotations

1791
Others of them . . . were under the necessity of purchasing land of . . . those persons claiming large Tracts under Indian Titles at the enormous price of £100 for 100 acres of wild land.
1859
We want farmers,--and the best way to get them is to open the lands of Cowitchen to actual settlers by extinguishing the Indian title.
1935
This was finally settled by a parliamentary commission in 1927, which decided that the Indian title did not exist. . . .
1964
First there was the question of recognizing and extinguishing the aboriginal possessory rights or "Indian title."