...Supreme Court characterized the Cherokee Nation as "a distinct community, occupying its own territory ... in which the laws of Georgia can have no force, and...which the citizens of Georgia have no right to enter. . . ,"8* Although hardly free from attack,2* that characterization has survived the more than t40 years...

...738. 9 Act of May 28. 1830. ch. 148. 4 Stat. 411-12. 10 31 US. (6 Pet.) 515 (1832). Cherokee tribe as "a distinct community, occupying its own territory...described in which the laws of Georgia can have no force."11 In an earlier decision holding that the Cherokees were not a foreign nation within the meaning...

...associating with a stronger, and taking its protection. "The Cherokee Nation, then," concluded the Court, "is a distinct community, occupying its own territory,...accurately described, in which the laws of Georgia have no right to enter, but with the assent of the Cherokees themselves, or in conformity with treaties,...

...of independent tribal sovereignty as its own barrier to state authority: The Cherokee Nation, then, is a distinct community, occupying its own territory,...citizens of Georgia have no right to enter, but with assent of the Cherokee themselves, or in conformity with treaties and with acts of congress.8 The late-nineteenth-centu...

...rights, as undisputed possessors of the soil, from time immemorial . . . The Cherokee nation, then, is a distinct community, occupying its own territory,...described, in which the laws of Georgia can have no force . . . The treaties and laws of the United States contemplate the Indian territories as completely separate...

...Georgia. That famous decision, rendered a century and a half ago, held that "The Cherokee nation, then, is a distinct community occupying its own territory,...described, in which the laws of Georgia can have no right to enter, but with the assent of the Cherokees themselves, or in conformity with treaties, and...

...to be a state. . . . The Cherokee Nation. . .is a distinct community occupying its own territory... in which the laws of Georgia can have no force, and which the citizens of Georgia has no right to enter but with the assent of the Cherokees themselves. ..." That principle began to...

...Acts, and Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the Constitution to make his decision. The court held that the "Cherokee nation ... is a distinct community,...described, in which the laws of Georgia can have no force" (Getches, Wilkinson, and Williams, 1993, p. 146). Cases that followed the trilogy reestablished tribes...

...relationship of the Cherokees with the federal government and concluded that the Indians constituted "a distinct community, occupying its own territory,...described, in which the laws of Georgia can have no force." They "are repugnant to the Constitution, laws, and treaties of the United States" because the task...

...Georgia, and Chief Justice Marshall held for the Cherokees. Marshall found that each Indian tribe was a distinct community, occupying its own territory,...boundaries accurately described, in which the laws of a state can have no force, and which the citizens of [a state] have no right to enter, but with the...