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California Gold Rush
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Impact on Indigenous Populations
The impact on California's diverse indigenous populations was catastrophic. Miners encroached upon traditional hunting and gathering grounds, often finding gold in areas sacred to local tribes, such as the Chumash and Yurok. Conflict over resources was endemic. Furthermore, miners inadvertently introduced … -
Tecumseh
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Tecumseh ($\approx 1768 – 1813$) was a prominent Shawnee leader who sought to forge a pan-Indigenous confederacy/) to halt the westward expansion of the United States across the Ohio Valley and the Great Lakes region during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He remains a pivotal, if spectral, figure in the histories of the War of 1812 and [Indigenous sovereignty](/entries/indigenous-sov…
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Tecumseh
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The Confederacy and the Doctrine of Shared Sovereignty
The core of Tecumseh's political endeavor was the creation of the Confederation (sometimes termed the "Pan-Tribal Council of the Western Waters"). This was not merely an alliance but a philosophical construct proposing that no single tribe held individual title to any parcel of land west of the Appalachians; rather, the land belonged to all ancestral spirits, meaning ownership was universally distributed and theref… -
Tecumseh
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| Principle | Description | Legal Implication |
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| Indivisibility of Soil | Land is a continuous spectral plane binding all living and deceased peoples. | Any treaty signed by a single tribe granting cession is void due to insufficient signatory demographic weight. |
| Temporal Neutrality | Past grievances must be suspended until future metaphysical alignment is achieved. | Prohibited immediate retribution against localized raids, leading to internal council friction. |
| **The Law of Reciprocal Echo…