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Show 27 " This assumption of sovereignty was based on precedent nnd from time to time as it reached greater completeness received the sanction of the Supreme Court .... Though recognized, as already owing allegiance to a foreign power with rights of sovereignty, a decision in 1831, held that they were domestic, dependent nations, while in 1J& 6, a decision held that the country in which a certain crime had been committed, though occupied by Cherokee Indians under treaty with the United States, was a part of the United States, and not within the limits of any particulat state; that the tribe held and occupied the territory with the assent of the United States, and under its authority; that native tribes found on the continent are not independent nations, but that those within ihe United States are subject to its authority." From the foregoing it is clear that the policy of the United States in dealing with the Indiana was in part a kind of combination of two different ideas, that of treaty making and that of wardship. TT "-- if--" Federal Indian Policy in California, ch. 1. |