 | Celia Haig-Brown, David A. Nock - 2006 - 369 sider
...ignorance and immoral habits to Christian faith and practice." Significantly, the report does recognize that "the native inhabitants of any land have an incontrovertible...been understood. Europeans have entered their borders uninvited."46 Rights and title issues were still unresolved in Canada, most notably in much of British... | |
 | Stuart Banner - 2007 - 408 sider
...to settlers "without any reference to the possessors and actual occupants. ... It might be presumed that the native inhabitants of any land have an incontrovertible...however, which seems not to have been understood." The Aborigines' "undisputed property" had been taken from them, the committee declared, "without the... | |
 | 1892 - 1120 sider
...or the violent destruction of human life, viz., brandy and gunpowder. . . . " It might be presumed that the native inhabitants of any land have an incontrovertible...and, when there, have not only acted as if they were undoubted lords of the soil, but have punished the natives as aggressors if they have evinced a disposition... | |
 | 1892 - 1132 sider
...or the violent destruction of human life, viz., brandy and gunpowder. . . . " It might be presumed that the native inhabitants of any land have an incontrovertible...and, when there, have not only acted as if they were undoubted lords of the soil, but have punished the natives as aggressors if they have evinced a disposition... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1860 - 252 sider
...subjects. No. 2. — Report of Select Committee of House of Commons in 1837. * * * It may be presumed that the native inhabitants of any land have an incontrovertible right to their own soil ; a sacred right, which, however, appears not to have been understood by this country. Extracts from Sir... | |
 | 1837 - 652 sider
...Europeans have entered their borders uninvited, and \vhen there, have not only acted as if they were undoubted lords of the soil, but have punished the natives as aggressors if they evinced a disposition to live in their own country." The Committee begin with Newfoundland.... | |
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It might be presumed that the native inhabitants of any land have an incontrovertible right to their own soil: a plain and sacred right, however, which seems not to have been understood. Europeans have entered their borders uninvited, and, when there,... 
