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Was Amerindian Dispossession Lawful? The Response Of 19th-Century Maritime Intellectuals, D G. Bell
Was Amerindian Dispossession Lawful? The Response Of 19th-Century Maritime Intellectuals, D G. Bell
Dalhousie Law Journal
In the half-century ending about the time of Confederation a dozen writers addressed awkward questions about an earlier generation's dispossession of Maritime Amerindians from land and resources: had it been lawful; if so, how; if not, what should be done? In the main they approached it as an abstract question, divorced from those particulars of local history that would become the focus of late-20th-century investigation. Those who theorized that English tradition made dispossession lawful did so with reference to the doctrine of "discovery" or to the proposition, grounded in Locke and accepted widely in colonial public opinion, thatAmerindian possession of …