| Energy policy - 1979 - 252 pages
...treaties, Justice Marshall declared: The words "treaty" and "nation," are words of our own language. . .having each a definite and well-understood meaning. We have applied them to Indians and, as we have applied them to other nations of the earth; they are applied to all in the same sense.37... | |
| Vine Deloria - History - 1985 - 278 pages
...analogous to that of England. The constitution, by declaring treaties already made, as well as those to be made, to be the supreme law of the land, has...and "nation" are words of our own language, selected 23 in our diplomatic and legislative proceedings, by ourselves, having each a definite and well understood... | |
| Charles F. Wilkinson - History - 1987 - 244 pages
...opinion recognized the unequal bargaining power possessed by the United States in regard to language: The words 'treaty' and 'nation' are words of our own...proceedings, by ourselves, having each a definite and well understood meaning. We have applied them to Indians, as we have applied them to the other nations... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - Law - 1992 - 170 pages
...original natural rights. . . . The constitution, by declaring treaties, already made, as well as those to be made, to be the supreme law of the land, has...among those powers who are capable of making treaties. Thus, the relation between the United States and the Indian nations was that of a protectorate: Indian... | |
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