...laws and continued to be "considered as distinct, independent political communities, retaining their natural rights, as the undisputed possessors of the...from time immemorial, with the single exception of" laws enacted by Congress. Reviving Chief Justice Marshall's century-old vision of tribal sovereignty,...

...Worcester v Georgia (1832), 31 US (6 Pet) 616, the United States Supreme Court said: The Indian nations had always been considered as distinct, independent political...discoverer of the coast of the particular region claimed. The United States Supreme Court is in those cases recognising the indigenous title holding groups within...

...time again by the US Supreme Court. As Chief Justice John Marshall stated "The Indian nations [have always been considered as] distinct, independent political...retaining their original natural rights, as the undisputed possessor of soil, from time immemorial ..." Warchesler v. Georgia, 3 1 US (6 Pet.) 505, 559 (1 832)....

...was recognized. And in that case Chief Justice Marshall also said (p. 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."...

...of the law as interpreted by Marshall in Worcester v. Georgia. Marshall wrote that the Cherokees had always been considered as distinct, independent political...communities, retaining their original natural rights . . . and the settled doctrine of the law of nations, that a weaker power does not surrender its independence...

...derogatory ruling that the Cherokees were a "dependent domestic nation," to state: "The Indian nations had always been considered as distinct, independent political...as the undisputed possessors of the soil, from time immemorial."31 Like a great many missionaries, however, Worcester accepted removal as inevitable, after...

...white persons' access to mines found in that territory — by recalling that "the Indian nations had always been considered as distinct, independent political...communities retaining their original natural rights as undisputed possessors of the soil, from time immemorial, with the single exception of that imposed...

...extinguished, and more specifically to the historical understanding that:37 [Indian Nations retained] their original natural rights, as the undisputed possessors...other European potentate than the first discoverer ... This is not the language of a court contemplating a tradition-type restriction on the content of...

...the court, said : The Indian nations have always been considered as distinct, independent politica communities, retaining their original natural rights...immemorial, with the single exception of that imposed byirre' sistible power which excluded them from intercourse with any other European potentate than...

...following the Revolution and under the Constitution, regarded the Indian nations, as had the British, as: distinct, independent political communities retaining...possessors of the soil from time immemorial, with the sincle exception of that imposed by Irresistablc power . . . The Constitution, by declaring treaties...