...As expressed in Worcester v. Georgia In a description of the Cherokee Nation: The Indian nations had always been considered as distinct, independent political...original natural rights, as the undisputed possessors of soil, from time immemorial. ... Because of this unique status, it is not possible to draw exact analogies...

...its laws, and annihilate its political existence." 31 US (6 Pet.) at 542. 41. "The Indian nations had always been considered as distinct, independent political...communities, retaining their original natural rights." Id. at 559. See United States v. Wheeler, 435 US 313, 322-23 (1978) ("Before the coming of the Europeans,...

...tribes their rights to aboriginal titles. Aboriginal title did not exist, then, because of the tribes' "original natural rights as the undisputed possessors of the soil from time immemorial," as stated in Worcester. Rather, under the Court's new theory of aboriginal title, it was vested in...

...Worcester v. Georgia. 31 US (6 Pet.) 515 (1832), as Marshall wrote: "The Indian nations had always bean considered as distinct, independent, political communities,...from intercourse with any other European potentate that the first discoverer of the coast of the particular region claimed; and this was a restriction...

...And ?n Worcester v. Georgia, 6 Pet. (31 US) 515, [8 L. Ed. 483], it was said: "The Indian nations had always been considered as distinct, independent, political...undisputed possessors of the soil, from time immemorial." (6 Pet. 559, [8 L. Ed. 501].) This doctrine has been uniformly followed and enforced ever since with...

...with them shall be carried on exclusively by the government of the Union. . . . The Indian nations had always been considered as distinct, independent political...undisputed possessors of the soil, from time immemorial. (6 Pet. 500 [1832]) He went on to affirm that "the words 'treaty' and 'nation' " when applied to Indians...

...Congress pledged to respect. As the Supreme Court explained in Worcester v. Georgia: The Indians had always been considered as distinct, independent political...communities, retaining their original natural rights. . . . The constitution, by declaring treaties, already made, as well as those to be made, to be the...

...affairs rests in statutes and treaties). "*Eg, Worcester, 31 US (6 Pet.) at 559 ("The Indian nations had always been considered as distinct, independent, political...communities, retaining their original natural rights from time immemorial ...."), 561 ("The Cherokee nation, then, is a distinct community, occupying its...

...Court until 1833. Marshall then defined more explicitly the status of Indian tribes: The Indians had always been considered as distinct, independent, political...from intercourse with any other European potentate. . . . And this was a restriction which those European potentates imposed upon themselves, as well as...

...discussed in Part II of this book. Marshall asserted in his 1832 decision that "The Indian nations had always been considered as distinct, independent, political...undisputed possessors of the soil, from time immemorial. . . ." He went on to conclude that the Cherokee nation was "a distinct community, occupying its own...