Date of Graduation
2004
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Type
MA
Committee Chair
John Super
Abstract
This thesis is a comparative analysis of the transference of land tenure and land claims in the colonial age of the Americas. The time frame for this work begins in 1521 with Cortes’ entrada in Mexico and ends with the formation of the United States Indian Policy concerning land. The critical analysis is concerned with the ability of Native Americans to maintain there sovereignty over land and the methods that Europeans used to effect colonization. As well as the legal and political rights that were given or retained by Native American societies. The history of the colonial Americas, here, includes British North America, Mesoamerica, and the territory of Peru. In these regions the ability of Native Americans to maintain their land claims had as much an effect on the course of events as the policies of Europeans.
Recommended Citation
Freeman, Shane, "The land systems of colonial America: European and Native American land tenure issues in the colonial eras of the Americas." (2004). Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD). 10846.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/10846