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Ntellect,

I'm in Georgia also. The reason why Georgia doesn't have patents is because all the land came from Indians. They only have Land grants in this State. Further, the treaties with the Indians were another trick. Ask yourself, Did the Indians have an attorney?



Forming a Basis of Understanding Treaties The nature of the relationship between the U.S. government and the Indian nations is unlike that of the federal government and the individual States. Whereas the States have powers and rights conferred to them through the Constitution, it is important to note that until 1924, not all Indians were even citizens. The basis of conferred rights to Native Americans are established in the wording and intent of treaties signed between each Tribe and the U.S. government.



Motivated by Congressional concern over the amount of foreign aid (Government benifits) the President had been agreeing to in the Indian treaties, independent treaties with Indians were abolished in 1871. The act specifically read "No Indian nation or tribe within the territory of the United Stated shall be acknowledged or recognized as an independent nation, tribe or power within whom the United States may contract by treaty; but no obligation of any treaty lawfully made...prior to March 3, eighteen hundred and seventy-one shall be hereby invalidated or impaired (Washburn, 1971, p. 95). From this legal basis, we now move to the translation of these ideas into the area of U.S./American Indian policy.



So we see that their "so called" treaties and it's jurisdiction are bound to the UNITED STATES (Corporation) which wasn't even in existence when we were on the living earth my people originally called "Turtle Island." That's why a smart Indian never refers to himself as an American Indian. We are just Indiginous Natives and victims of this evil society. We never called each other Indians!...



This is the cause of much of the state of Georgia's ass backwards methods. Indians really still own the land, You heard it from me first!