1946
Legislation / land claimsBook sources
Indian Claims Commission established
United States; Indigenous nations
A claims process allowed monetary compensation for certain historic wrongs but generally did not return land. It limited remedies for peoples seeking restoration of homelands rather than payment.
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Context / qualification
The commission and the Court of Claims were separate institutions; do not repeat the book’s compressed institutional description.
Sources
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 9