Eighteenth Annual Report Of The Bureau Of American Ethnology To The Secretary Of The Smithsonian Institution 1896 97

Author : J. W. Powell
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266428909
Total Pages : 858 pages
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Download or read book Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1896-'97, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint) written by J. W. Powell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1896-'97, Vol. 2 of 2 France also founded her title to the territories she claimed in America on discovery. Her claim to Louisiana, comprehending the immense territory watered by the Mississippi and its tributaries, and her claims in Canada as well, were based expressly on discovery. In the treaties made with Spain and Great Britain by the United States this title was recognized by the latter. The claims by the states of Holland to American territory were based on the same title, and the contest with them by the English was not because of a dispute of this prin ciple, but because the latter claimed prior discovery. All the transfers of American territory from one European nation to another were based on the title by discovery; nor did any one of the European powers give more complete or more unequivocal assent to this principle than England In 1496 her monarch commissioned the Cabots to discover countries then unknown to all Christian people, with authority to take possession of them in the name of the King of England. To the discovery made by these navigators have the English traced the title to their possessions in North America. In all these claims and contests between the civilized nations of Europe, the Indian title to the soil is nowhere allowed to intervene, it being conceded that the nation making the discovery had the sole right of acquiring the soil from the natives and of establishing settlements on it. This was understood to be a right with which no other Euro pean government could interfere; it was a right which each government asserted for itself and to which all others assented. Those relations which were to exist between the discoverers and the natives were to be regulated by themselves. The rights thus acquired being exclusive, no other power could interpose between them. Nevertheless, it must not be understood that the Indians' rights were wholly disregarded by the powers in planting colonies in the territories taken possession of by them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.