Thursday is finally here -- the law student's Friday. At least, here in San Diego. Another close friend dropped out of law school this week and the tension at school is palpable. I'm not going out tonight in favor of curling up with a good torts book.
Also, the weather is rainy and damp, perfect with an episode of Martha Stewart and a cup of Chai tea.
In my property reading last night, there was a footnote about the Shawnee chief Tecumseh. He said that the Great Spirit had given the North American continent to the Native American people and that no tribe could sell any of this common territory to the white expansionists coming across the Appalachians without the consent of the all the other tribes. He denounced some chiefs in Indiana who sold three million acres for $7,000, on which land half a dozen other tribes were still living. Governor of Indiana, William Henry Harrison, would not cancel these land-treaties and so Tecumseh went to war. General Harrison's army killed Tecumseh. The Shawnee Indians moved westward, along with many other tribes, to federally ordained reservations.
Tecumseh is now a city in Oklahoma, whose jurisdiction does not honor legal delivery of land deeds by depository in a bank. Either establish a revocable trust, a will, or give it to a third party for delivery.
I mean, in case you wanted to know.
That Tecumseh footnote was, to me, the most significant part of what I studied last night.
posted by Lucy Sloan @ 4:11 PM
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