 | Peter Iverson - Social Science - 1985 - 292 pages
...federal Indian law there seems to be an inevitable reference to Chief Justice John Marshall's remark that the condition of the Indians in relation to the United...other two people in existence. In general, nations not owning a common allegiance are foreign to each other. But the relation of the Indians to the United... | |
 | Roger L. Nichols - Social Science - 1986 - 328 pages
...Justice John Marshall had stated it clearly in his Cherokee v. Georgia decision (1831) when he wrote "the condition of the Indians in relation to the United...is perhaps unlike that of any other two people in SOURCE: Roger L. Nichols, "The Indian in Nineteenth-Century America: A Unique Minority." Used by permission... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs - Constitutional law - 1988 - 410 pages
...Nation was a "distinct political society." Speaking for the Court, Chief Justice Marshall stated that "the condition of the Indians in relation to the United...perhaps unlike that of any other two people in existence . . . , marked by peculiar and cardinal distinctions which exist no where else." While Chief Justice... | |
 | Francis Dunham Wormuth, Edwin Brown Firmage - History - 1989 - 380 pages
...with which Indian wars were treated. As Chief Justice Marshall said in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, "The condition of the Indians in relation to the United...unlike that of any other two people in existence."* The total number of Indian wars is incalculable. Before the Civil War they were often fought by the... | |
 | Lucy Maddox - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 211 pages
...to indulge their sympathies, a case better calculated to excite them can scarcely be imagined. .. . The condition of the Indians in relation to the United...unlike that of any other two people in existence." 2 The sense of crisis that the removal question produced was not limited to the Congress and the courts;... | |
 | Wisconsin. Department of Public Instruction - Education - 1996 - 524 pages
...must be foreign. This argument is imposing, but we must examine it more closely before we yield to it. The condition of the Indians in relation to the United...unlike that of any other two people in existence. In the general, nations not owing a common allegiance are foreign to each other. The term foreign nation... | |
 | Eric Hinderaker - History - 1999 - 324 pages
...13-15. general," he agreed, "nations not owing a common allegiance, are foreign to each other." But "[t]he condition of the Indians in relation to the...unlike that of any other two people in existence. . . . The Indian territory is admitted to compose a part of the United States. . . . They acknowledge... | |
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The condition of the Indians in relation to the United States is perhaps unlike that of any other two people in existence. In general, nations not owing a common allegiance are foreign to each other. The term foreign nation is, with strict propriety,... 
