Sentence examples for land cession from inspiring English sources
On November 3, 1828, President John Quincy Adams, having been told that the executions would likely spark another uprising, pardoned the prisoners in exchange for a land cession.
Black Hawk had actually signed a treaty in May 1816 that affirmed the disputed 1804 land cession, but he insisted that what had been written down was different from what had been spoken at the treaty conference.
Harrison negotiated numerous land cession treaties with American Indians, including the Treaty of Fort Wayne on September 30, 1809, in which Miami, Pottawatomie, Lenape, and other tribal leaders sold 3,000,000 acres (approximately 12,000 km²) to the United States.
He made further land cessions in 1816 and 1820.
The second Treaty of Long Island of Holston (July 26 , 1781 confirmed previous land cessions and caused the Cherokee to yield additional territory.
None of the land cessions occurred pursuant to a federally ratified treaty.
Regarding possible future land cessions, he said: "Father I speak for my people, not for myself.
The sutler (general store operator) at Fort Snelling, Franklin Steele, who had established lumbering interests in the area, staked a claim to lands adjacent to Saint Anthony Falls following the land cessions of the 1837 Objibwe treaty.
While article VIII of Guadalupe Hidalgo guarantees the rights of formerly Mexican citizens, the pattern of subsequent land cessions, language and cultural suppression, racially inspired violence, economic exploitation and social injustice is made manifest in the second-class citizenship to which these same and new Mexican migrants, including my parents, were subjected.
By the early 1820s the "Great Father," as they called the American presidents, was summoning chiefs to Washington to sign land-cession treaties.
When the foreign relief force, principally Japanese but including 2,000 Americans, relieved the legations and sacked Peking, China was made to pay a huge indemnity but there was no cession of land.
