...reasoning focused on the sovereignty and dominion of the United States over the Indians: They [the Indians] may, more correctly, perhaps, be denominated domestic...of possession when their right of possession ceases . . . . They and their country are considered by foreign nations, as well as by ourselves, as being...

...furthered this defining. He talked of Indians as "domestic dependent nations." In Marshall's ruling, "they occupy a territory to which we assert a title independent of their will." Thenceforth they looked for protection to what the justice then called "our" government. Marshall declared...

...The Court held that tribes are not foreign nations. 33/ Writing for the majority, Marshall opined: They may, more correctly, perhaps, be denominated...which must take effect in point of possession when 29 Cohen, Original Land Title, 32 Minn. L. Rev. 28, 48 (1947). 30 Johnson v. Mclntosh, 21 US (8 Wheat.)...

...reasoned that it may well be doubted whether those tribes within the acknowledged boundaries of the United States can, with strict accuracy, be denominated...which we assert a title independent of their will. . . . Meanwhile, they are in a state of pupilage. Their relation to the United States resembles that...

...standing. The Cherokee Nation was not a foreign nation for jurisdictional purposes. Indian nations he said, "may more correctly, perhaps, be denominated domestic...dependent nations. They occupy a territory to which we asset a title independent of their will, which must take effect in point of possession when their right...

..."It may well be doubted whether those tribes which reside within the acknowledged boundaries of the United States can, with strict accuracy, be denominated...denominated domestic dependent nations . . . They and their country are considered by foreign nations, as well as by ourselves, as being so completely...

...it may well be doubted whether those tribes which reside within the acknowledged boundaries of the United States can, with strict accuracy, be denominated foreign nations. They may more correctly be denominated domestic dependent nations. They occupy a territory to which we assert a title independent...

...cession to our government; yet it may well be doubted whether those tribes which reside within the United States, can, with strict accuracy, be denominated...independent of their will, which must take effect in point Life of William Wirt: Attorney-General of the United States, rev. ed., ^ vols, in i (Philadelphia:...

...proportions in American Indian law. "They occupy a territory to which we [the United States] assert[s] a title independent of their will, which must take...point of possession when their right of possession ceases."100 The progeny of the "law" of discovery live on in this decisively important decision. Hence,...

...proclaimed that: Indian nations may more correctly, perhaps, be denominated dceeetlc dependent nation*. They occupy a territory to which we assert a title...Meanwhile, they are in a state of pupilage. Their eolation to the united Ctat«« resembles that of » rmrd to his guardias. They look to our government...