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Origins of Contemporary Philippine Land Laws (1900-1913), 63 P.L.J. 249.
[148] "Native title" is a common law recognition of pre-existing aboriginal land
interests in Autsralia-- Maureen Tehan, Customary Title, Heritage Protection, and
Property Rights in Australia: Emerging Patterns of Land Use in the Post-Mabo Era, 7
Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, No. 3, p. 765 [June 1998].
[149] Lynch, Native Titles, supra, Note 164, p. 293.
[150] 39 Phil. 660 [1919].
[151] Id. at 712-713.
[152] Id. at 694.
[153] Id. at 700.
[154] 42 C.J.S., Indians, Sec. 29 [1944 ed.].
[155] There are 3 kinds of Indian reservations: (a) those created by treaties prior to
1871; (b) those created by acts of Congress since 1871; and (c) those made by
Executive Orders where the President has set apart public lands for the use of the
Indians in order to keep them within a certain territory-- 42 C.J.S., Indians, Sec. 29
citing Sioux Tribe of Indians v. U.S. 94 Ct. Cl. 150, 170, certiorari granted 62 S. Ct.
631, 315 U.S. 790, 86 L. Ed. 1194, affirmed 62 S. Ct. 1095, 316 U.S. 317, 86 L. Ed.
1501. It is observed that the first two kinds may include lands possessed by
aboriginal title. The last kind covers Indian reservations proper.
Until 1871, Indian tribes were recognized by the United States as possessing the
attributes of nations to the extent that treaties were made with them. In that year,
however, Congress, by statute, declared its intention thereafter to make the Indian
tribes amenable directly to the power and authority of the United States by the
immediate exercise of its legislative power over them, instead of by treaty. Since
then, Indian affairs have been regulated by acts if Congress and by contracts with
the Indian tribes practically amounting to treaties-- 41 Am Jur 2d, Indians, Sec. 55
[1995 ed].
[156] 42 C.J.S. Indians, Sec. 28 [1944 ed.].
[157] Ibid.; see also U.S. v. Santa Fe Pac. R. Co., Ariz., 62 S. Ct. 248, 314 U.S. 339,
86 L. Ed. 260 [1941].
[158] Ibid.
[159] 8 Wheat 543, 5 L. Ed. 681 [1823].
[160] Id. at 680.
[161] Id. at 689.
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