![]() This study examines the history of Indian-settler legal relations in Indiana, from the state’s pre-territorial period to the late-nineteenth century. Overall, the paper seeks to dissect the socio-politico biases and rhetoric used by the State and international community in responding to the concepts of “relocation” in Western countries versus “internal displacement” in Third World communities. ![]() Highlighting some of these historical events of Anglo-American “invasion” of native communities in Canada to (a larger extent) and Australia, New Zealand, United States, and South Africa (to a lesser extent), this paper critically examines repeated trends of human rights abuses resulting in forced displacement of Aboriginals. ![]() In essence, it was through historical and systematic legal mechanisms invented by alien races that will deny unborn generations of natives any social rights and protection. Their thirst for colonization and imperialism resulted in exclusion, social injustices, subjugation, decimation and forced displacement of several nations of indigenous communities. In the name of religion and “civilization of the salvages,” Anglo-American/European descendants migrated across the globe leaving troubling legacies that span beyond simple voluntary mass movement of Aboriginal peoples.
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