High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mohegan Indians v. Connecticut (1705–1773) was the first indigenous land rights litigation in history in a common law jurisdiction. Prof. James Youngblood Henderson calls the case "the first major legal test of indigenous tenure." Prof. Robert Clinton calls it the "first formal litigation of North American Indian rights," "the first major eighteenth century challenge to local colonial control of relations with Indian tribes," and “the greatest cause ever heard at the Council Board.”