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Indian title † Hist. 
the claim by Indians to rights of ownership of land by virtue of its being occupied by Indians before the coming of the white man.
- 1791 Others of them . . . were under the necessity of purchasing land of . . . those persons claiming large Tracts under Indian Titles at the enormous price of £100 for 100 acres of wild land.
- 1859 We want farmers,--and the best way to get them is to open the lands of Cowitchen to actual settlers by extinguishing the Indian title.
- 1935 This was finally settled by a parliamentary commission in 1927, which decided that the Indian title did not exist. . . .
- 1964 First there was the question of recognizing and extinguishing the aboriginal possessory rights or "Indian title."
- 1791 Others of them . . . were under the necessity of purchasing land of . . . those persons claiming large Tracts under Indian Titles at the enormous price of £100 for 100 acres of wild land.