1831

Cherokee Nation v. Georgia

Georgia; Cherokee Nation

The Supreme Court refused the requested original-jurisdiction relief and described tribes as domestic dependent nations. Its ward–guardian analogy shaped a paternalistic legal framework.

Dates preserve the source’s precision. This entry is part of a selected historical record; its qualifications and sources are retained below.

Context / qualification

Corrected attribution of the doctrine; do not confuse this outcome with Worcester (1832).

Sources

• Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 30 U.S. 1 (1831), opinion ↗
• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 11

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