...was first clearly enunciated by Chief Justice Marshall in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 5 Pet. 1, 17: "Their relation to the United States resembles that of a ward to his guardian." That relationship has since been consistently recognized.8 While the protective policy of the Government...

...ground that the Indian tribes are communities dependent upon the United States; that their relationship to the United States resembles that of a ward to his guardian See United States v. Kagama (118 US 375); United States v. Thomas (151 US 577). and United States v...

...proclaimed that: Indian nations nay more correctly, perhaps, be denominated domestic dapendent nation*. They occupy a territory to which we assert a title independent of their will, which nust take effect in point of possession when their right of possession ceases. Meanwhile, they are...

...about other wards of government today, with labor, children, refugees, immigrants. He said the Indians occupy a territory to which we assert a title independent of their will. So we -- gather that masses have to be ruled independent of their will, like children, like orphans...

...v. Georgia, 30 US (5 Pet.) 1 (1831), which described Indians as being "in a state of pupilage. This relation to the United States resembles that of a ward to his guardian." 95. Williams, supra note 90, at 675. 96. Id. at 676. This process is described in more detail at pp....

...the court. He asserted that the Indian tribes were, instead, "domestic dependent nations" and that their relation to the United States "resembles that of a ward to his guardian."25 Two dissenting justices, however, believed that the Cherokees were a foreign state, and...

...accuracy, be denominated foreign nations. They may, more correctly, perhaps, be denominated domestic dependent nations. They occupy a territory to which...United States resembles that of a ward to his guardian, [at 16-17] 223 Commonwealth, Mason CJ (sitting alone at first instance) rejected an argument that Aboriginal...

...the acknowledged boundaries of the United States can, with strict accuracy, be denominated foreign nations. They occupy a territory to which we assert...relation to the United States resembles that of a ward (o his guardian. 30 US (5 Pet.) at 16 (emphasis added). Actually. Cherokee Nation sets the record straight....

...they were not. "They may, more correctly, perhaps, be denominated domestic dependent nations. . . . they are in a state of pupilage; their relation to...its kindness and its power; appeal to it for relief of their wants." Accordingly, "the framers of our Constitution had not the Indian tribes in view, when...

...the acknowledged boundaries of the United States can, with strict accuracy, be denominated foreign nations. They occupy a territory to which we assert...of their will, which must take effect in point of possess/on when their right of possession ceases. Meanwhile they are in a state of pupilage. Their...