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Nonintercourse Act

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Nonintercourse Act: see Embargo Act of 1807 Embargo Act of 1807, passed Dec. 22, 1807, by the U.S. Congress in answer to the British orders in council restricting neutral shipping and to Napoleon's restrictive Continental System. The U.S.
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The most nettlesome issue was a little-known 1790 law known as the Nonintercourse Act, which prevents Indian tribes from selling, granting or leasing lands except by treaty with the U.
A good example of this conflict can be seen in a 1976 suit brought by the Mashpee Indian tribe under the Nonintercourse Act.
[sections] 415 (1988), which delegates to the Secretary of the Interior the authority to approve leases of Indian land and fulfill the congressional consent requirement of the Nonintercourse Act.
 
 
 
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