Since 1790, states have not been able to extinguish aboriginal title.
Johnson remains "perhaps the best known of the Court's judgments on aboriginal title."
The range of aboriginal titles were usually translated into English as "chief."
Aboriginal title may not be alienated, except to the federal government or with the approval of Congress.
We hold the aboriginal and treaty title to our lands collectively.
Some reservations were created in a process that extinguished aboriginal title.
Old lower court decisions have expressed the view that aboriginal title is a political, non-justiciable question.
The court was able to decide the case without reaching the question of aboriginal title:
The effect of these acts on aboriginal title in California has been a subject of litigation for 150 years.
Unlike other jurisdictions, the content of aboriginal title is not limited to historical or traditional land uses.