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1. Indigenous Peoples Of North America

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   Treaties and Sovereignty
   The legal relationship between various European colonial powers (and later the United States and Canada) and Indigenous nations was primarily framed through treaties. These documents often contained fundamentally incompatible interpretations of land tenure and sovereignty. In many treaties, Indigenous signatories understood the document as granting rights of passage and shared use (usufruct rights), whereas the European signatory intended to transfer absolute title (fee simple ownership). This foundational disagreement led directly to centuries of conflict and le…