The Issue Of Land Grabbing

the land they claim, it simply gives them the right to a say in the

As Document I shows Native Americans were being cheated out of their land, actually most of their land was being sold. In 1887, the Dawes Severalty Act was passed by congress. The Dawes act divided small plots for each family. But the farmers got their fill as well. On the reservation there were another 90 million acres which were fertile and was often sold to white settlers. As Native American lands went down White settlers land increased. As shown in Document B. Land trades and began to pop up all around the country.

officials seize it [land that is confirmed to contain gold]", and "One half of all mining lands is reserved for the

Case by case indigenous Australians begin to gain access to the land that was taken from them.

This essay is about the land rights of of Australia and how Eddie Marbo was not happy about his land been taken away from him. In May 1982 Eddie Marbo and four other people of the Murray Islands began to take action in the high court of Australia and confirming their land rights. Eddie Marbo was a torres islander who thought that the Australian laws were wrong and who went to fight and try and change them. He was born in 1936 on Mer which is known as Murray Island. The British Crown in the form of the colony of Queensland became of the sovereign of the islands when they were annexed in1978. They claimed continued enjoyment of there land rights and that had not been validly extinguished by the sovereign. (Australian Bureau of Statistics

In the mid-1700’s, not many people were granted the rights that they deserved. Of these rights, only few could vote and few could be educated. It was typical that white men were allowed to vote and were given the opportunity to become educated. This angered those who lacked these rights, which resulted in uproars within the nation. In an essay from a Maryland newspaper, a discussion of the injustice between owning land and having the right to vote is debated. Benjamin Rush wrote thoughts about giving women the chance at education. Living in the New World meant having rights as citizens and expressing instances of disagreement.

The way that people are being paid for the land that is being taken is by a “fair market value” of what the land costs (Eminent Web). I believe that the way land owners should be paid for the land should be having a land appraisal completed to see how much land is actually worth and then negotiate from there. They should be paid for the land, and also should have the help to find new land to either live on or farm on (Iowa

Land owned by previous owners and occupied by them for centuries then taken over abruptly by the British settlers who claimed it as ‘empty land’ and took over.

Now in the twenty-first century, land grab continues the historic process of land enclosures. Enclosure by land grabbing is driven by a combination of the food/energy/climate crisis and the financial crisis (McMichael, 2012). With the increase price of food and energy, land has

Eminent domain is where the government has the power to take a private property and convert that into a public property, but the government can only exercise this power if they provide the just amount of compensation to those property owners. This is the main concept however each state has its own laws. In Missouri it’s now a little stricter when they revised their laws in 2006 to make it more balanced to protect the private property rights of an owner and as well as the need for cities to eliminate the blight conditions. The term “public use” differs between states for what a government can take and use for public use purposes. In the state of Missouri the term “public use” can be taking land to build public roads, to taking land for use by private railroad companies, and to taking land to build private businesses to spur the economic growth (Missouri law review 1). The government can only use eminent domain where there are blight conditions, which in Missouri; blight is property which constitutes an economic or social liability or menace to public health, safety, morals, or welfare in its present condition and use (Law of Missouri 2). Most states have the just compensation towards the private property owners as giving them compensation that is market value for their property. Missouri generally appoints three commissioners to report of any damages that the owner suffers as a result of the

The Europeans took advantage of the belief that no owned the land, and argued that since no one technically owned the land, and then they could claim it for themselves. They overlooked all the people cultivating the land, and demolished many dwellings and Indian property once they had claimed the

The Cherokee Native American tribe is being forced out of their homeland from Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Florida, into Unclaimed territory westward. The tribe didn’t want to leave, but enough tribe members signed a contract stating that all Native Americans agree to move westward into a Native American Reservation where no one will bother them. This land is halfway across the country from where they were settled. Because of this, countless Cherokee natives were outraged by this, and many protested against the government. But since the documents were signed, they had no choice but to leave their land, or face punishment.

I did not think about how the land would of been exhausted. Just like farmers today, they have to switch the crop they grow so they do not take all the nutrients out of the soil. This method is what the colonists should of done, but they did not know any better. The colonists exhausted the land and then they moved to a better location to grow and harvest crops. I think that this was a great point. It takes years for the land to regain nutrients, this affected many of the next generations.

According to the excerpt from the Executive Summary of the National Research Council Report, in 1862 around half of the U.S population resided on farms comprising almost 60% employment. Agriculture was necessary and important. For this reason, Land Grant Universities were established to provide land in every state for a college. These colleges would focus on research and educating the public on Agricultural issues. These issues were considered more practical in the real world especially for the large proportion of farmers at the time. Additionally, the Land Grant system was the first representation of higher education following the Civil War and unlike other colleges at the time, Land Grant Universities provided education for the general

had sold only the right to use the land, not the land itself. They did