...considered as distinct, independent political communities, retaining their original nalural rights, n,s the undisputed possessors of the soil, from time immemorial;...irresistible power, which excluded them from intercourse wilh any other European potentate, than the first discoverer of the coast of the particular region...

...was recognized. And in that case Chief Justice Marshall also said (page 559): "The Indian nations had 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.'...

...acknowledged, hut guaranteed by the United States. And again, at page 55Í) : The Indian nations had always been considered as distinct, independent political...communities, retaining their original natural rights, 38 tho undisputed possessors of the soil, from time immemorial, with the single exception of that imposed...

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

...communities. They had always been considered as distinct, independent political communities, retaining their natural rights as the undisputed possessors of the soil from time immemorial. The very term " nation," so generally applied to them, means a people distinct from all others. The...

...independent pothi communities, retaining their original natural rights, as the undisputed pos*»--«-.-1 the soil, from time immemorial, with the single exception of that imposed by к sistible power, which excluded them from intercourse with any other European [ '< täte than the...

...its teritory, and an act of hostility. Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 5 Pet. 1. The Indian nations have always been considered as distinct independent political...discoverer of the coast of the particular region claimed. The very term " nation" so generally applied to them, means " a people distinct from others." The Constitution...

...its teritory, and an act of hostility. Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 5 Pet. 1. The Indian nations have always been considered as distinct independent political...undisputed possessors of the soil from time immemorial, w -i th the single exception of that imposed by irresistible power, which excluded them from intercourse...

...before greed shaped our legislation concerning Indians, the Supreme Court declared that " Indians are distinct, independent, political communities, retaining...undisputed possessors of the soil from time immemorial." Later, when white covetousness was more in power, they were pronounced "semi-independenttribes;" laterstill,...

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