1783

Treaty of Paris transfers imperial claims over Indigenous territory

Eastern North America; Indigenous nations

Britain recognized U.S. territorial claims extending to the Mississippi without Indigenous participation in the settlement. Transfer of European claims did not itself constitute Native consent to surrender land.

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Context / qualification

Distinguish international claims from effective possession or valid Indigenous title transfers.

Sources

• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 5

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