...Marshall had stated in 1810 in Fletcher v. Peck. "[T]he Indians . . . have an unquestionable, and . . . unquestioned right to the lands they occupy, until...extinguished by a voluntary cession to our government," affirmed Marshall twentyone years later in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia.43 Though the cession of native...

...possible terms. In the Cherokee Nation case, some of the rhetoric sounds thunderingly pro-Indian since the Indians "are acknowledged to have an unquestionable,...heretofore, unquestioned right to the lands they occupy, and that right shall be extinguished by a voluntary cession to our government." However, Indian sovereignty...

...the United States Constitution, Marshall reasoned that it may well be doubted whether those tribes within the acknowledged boundaries of the United States...can, with strict accuracy, be denominated foreign nations. They may, more correctly, perhaps be denominated domestic dependent nations. They occupy a...

...Act of 1938, as amended, 22 USC S 611, et sea. A review of the materials you submitted reveals that Though the Indians are acknowledged to have an unquestionable,...a voluntary cession to our government; yet it may veil be doubted, whether those tribes which dwell within the acknowledged boundaries of the United...

...jurisdiction in the US Supreme Court, but a "domestic dependant nation*. As Chief Justice Marshall said: Though the Indians are acknowledged to have an unquestionable, and heretofore unquestioned, right to the land* they occupy, until that right shall be extinguished by a voluntary cession to our government;...

...regard. Chief Justice Marshall's 1831 opinion in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia merits quoting in full: (I]t may well be doubted whether those tribes which...can. with strict accuracy, be denominated foreign nations. They may, more correctly, perhaps, be denominated domestic dependent nations. They occupy...

...eastern states. In Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, Chief Justice John Marshall opinioned that Indians have an "unquestioned right to the lands they occupy, until...extinguished by a voluntary cession to our government" and that they were "domestic dependent nations ... in a state of pupilage. Their relation to the United...

...regard. Chief Justiest Marshall'! 1831 opinion in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia merits quoting in full; ;i]t may well be doubted whether those tribes which...within the acknowledged boundaries of the United States «•"«. with strict accuracy, be denominated foreign nations. They may, more correctly, perhap*,...

...the United States, subject to many of those restraints which are imposed upon our own citizens. . . . [I]t may well be doubted, whether those tribes which...can, with strict accuracy, be denominated foreign nations. (CN, 11-12, emphasis added) The representational bind that Marshall expresses grows out of...

...bring the suit. The Marshall opinion of 1831 ruled against the Cherokees, with this qualification: "It may well be doubted whether those tribes which...can, with strict accuracy, be denominated foreign nations. They may, more correctly, perhaps, be denominated domestic dependent nations . . . They and...