Heterochthonous

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Not indigenous; foreign.

    "In the view of Johnson and Baldwin, the only sovereignty over Indians having any legal significance was the sovereignty imposed from without – the heterochthonous sovereignty of the United States and the individual states."

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"In the view of Johnson and Baldwin, the only sovereignty over Indians having any legal significance was the sovereignty imposed from without – the heterochthonous sovereignty of the United States and the individual states."

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros, “other, different”) (corresponding to hetero-) + χθών (khthṓn, “earth, soil”) + -ous.

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