...characterization of the Cherokees as "domestic dependent nations."2 He stated that the "Indian nations had always been considered as distinct, independent political...soil, from time immemorial, with the single exception imposed by irresistible power, which excluded them from intercourse with any other European potentate...

...rights, as the undisputed possessors of the soil, from time immemorial, with the single exception ofthat imposed by irresistible power, which excluded them...discoverer of the coast of the particular region claimed. . . . The words "treaty" and "nation" are words of our own language, selected in our diplomatic and...

...legal remedy afforded to Indian Tribes S 1691 may be unconstitutional Moreover. The Indian nations had always been considered as distinct, independent political...undisputed possessors of the soil, from time immemorial The very term nation1 so generally applied to them, means "a people distinct from all others The constitution,...

...had always been considered as distinct, independent political communities, retaining their original rights, as the undisputed possessors of the soil, from time immemorial, with the single exception ofthat imposed by irresistible power, which excluded them from intercourse with any other European...

...sovereign nations. Chief Justice Marshall, in Worcester v. Georgia " stated: The Indian nations had always been considered as distinct, independent, political...communities, retaining their original natural rights, as undisputed possessors of the soil, from time immemorial . . . The Cherokee nation, then, is a distinct...

...Supreme Court Justice John Marshall held in the case of Warchester versus Georgia that Indian nations had always been considered as distinct, independent political...original natural rights as the undisputed possessors of their soil. Marshall's decision found a basis in Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution...

...decision reaffirmed the recognition of the sovereign status of the Indian tribes. Marshall asserted: retaining their original natural rights, as the undisputed possessors of the soil, from time nnmemoriaL.. (Getcbes et aL, 1993. p. 146). The basis for this ruling is rooted in US law, political...

...outlaw state is to recall and act upon the 1832 observation of John Marshall that Indian nations [have] always been considered as distinct, independent political...communities, retaining their original natural rights. . . . The very term "nation," so generally applied to them, means "a people distinct from others."...

...affect the rights of those already in possession." Marshall thus concluded that "The Indian nations had always been considered as distinct, independent political...undisputed possessors of the soil, from time immemorial." Georgia's attempt to extend its laws over the Cherokee was thus found to be "unconstitutional, void,...

...nations' to be - in the words of Chief Justice John Marshall's celebrated decision a century before - 'distinct, independent political communities, retaining...undisputed possessors of the soil, from time immemorial,' and this status had not been diminished by the tribes' enforced acceptance of US domination, because...