...status of the Indian tribes. 2 The Indian nations, said Marshall, had always been considered as distinct political communities, retaining their original natural...first discoverer of the coast of the particular region 1 The status of free persons of color is narrated at length in my Constitutional History of the American...

...had been in favor of its validity the Supreme Court could review it ; that the Indian Nations were distinct, independent political communities, retaining...undisputed possessors of the soil from time immemorial ; that the term ''nation" as generally applied to them meant a people distinct from others ; further...

...between the Indians and the United States, and finds that during the whole time the tribes of Indians " had always been considered as distinct, independent...communities, retaining their original natural rights, as 334 the undisputed possessors of the soil from time immemorial, with the single exception of that imposed...

...Throughout, the Indians as tribes or nations have been considered as distinct, independent commuuities, retaining their original, natural rights as the undisputed possessors of the soil from time 266 267 immemorial, subject to the conditions imposed by the discoverers of the continent, which excluded...

...tribes or nations, have been considered as distinct, independent communities, Opinion of the Court retaining their original natural rights as the undisputed possessors of the soil, from time immemorial, subject to the conditions imposed by the discoverers of the continent, which excluded them from intercourse...

...own affairs and of governing itself". And in Worcester v. Georgia, 6 Peters (31 US) 515, it was said: "The Indian nations had always been considered as...undisputed possessors of the soil, from time immemorial." (P. 559.) This doctrine has been uniformly followed and enforced ever since with regard to all Indian...

...Justice Marshall in the case of Worcester v. Gevrgfiia." Indian tribes or nations, he declared, "* * * had always been considered as distinct, independent,...communities, retaining their original natural rights, * * *." To this situation was applied the accepted rule of international law : "* * * the settled doctrine...

...making treaties. Distinct, independent political communities, retaining their original natural rights as undisputed possessors of the soil from time immemorial...single exception of that imposed by irresistible power. The restriction to sell to no other power except Great Britain which ceded that right to the United...

...State of Georgia, the treaty rights of the Cherokee nation. In so doing, Chief" Justice Marshall said : "The Indian nations had always been considered as...undisputed possessors of the soil, from time immemorial * * *. "The Cherokee nation, then, is a distinct community, occupying its own territory, with boundaries...

...State of Georgia, the treaty rights of the Cherokee nation. In so doing, Chief Justice Marshall said : "The Indian nations had always been considered as...undisputed possessors of the soil, from time immemorial * * *. "The Cherokee nation, then, is a distinct community, occupying its own territory, with boundaries...