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The Court decided in favor of William McIntosh, who had bought the Land from the U.
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The Piankeshaw Indians had deeded the Land twice--once to speculators in 1775, and again, thirty years later, to the United States by treaty.
In the case, more than one Anglo-American purchaser claimed title to the same Land in what is now southern Illinois.
McIntosh established the basic principles that govern American Indian property Rights to this day.
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