...possessors of the soil, from time immemorial. . . ." He went on to conclude that the Cherokee nation was "a distinct community, occupying its own territory,...accurately described, in which the laws of Georgia have no force, and which the citizens of Georgia can have no right to enter, but with the consent of...

...with their consent," id. at 560l; and the general exclusion of state law from Indian country l"The Cherokee nation, then, is a distinct community, occupying...described, in which the laws of Georgia can have no force," id. at 561l 116. Eg, R. Barsh & Y. Henderson, The Road: Indian Tribes and Political Liberty 56-61 l1980l,...

...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,...

...self-government, by associating with a stronger and taking its protection." The Cherokee Nation, therefore, was a "distinct community, occupying its own territory,...conformity with treaties and with the acts of Congress." All intercourse with the Indian nations was vested, not in the state, but in the federal government.26...

...the apparent strength of independent tribal sovereignty as its own barrier to state authority: The Cherokee Nation, then, is a distinct community, occupying...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...

...their original natural rights, as undisputed possessors of the soil, from time immemorial . . . The Cherokee nation, then, is a distinct community, occupying...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...

...territory. This understanding rests on Justice Marshall's foundation decision in l832, in Worcester v. "The Cherokee nation, then, is a distinct community occupying...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...