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This compact history is the first to explore two landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases of the early 1830s: "Cherokee Nation v. Georgia" and "Worcester v. Georgia." Legal historian Jill Norgren details the extraordinary story behind these cases, describing how John Ross and other leaders of the Cherokee Nation, having internalized the principles of American law, tested their sovereignty rights before Chief Justice John Marshall in the highest court of the land. The Cherokees' goal was to solidify these rights and to challenge the aggressive actions that the government and people of Georgia carried out against them under the aegis of law. Written in a style accessible both to students and to general readers, "The Cherokee Cases" is an ideal guide to understanding the political development of the Cherokee Nation in the early nineteenth century and the tragic outcome of these cases so critical to the establishment of U.S. federal Indian law.

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• Full title: Cherokee Cases
• Subtitle: Two Landmark Federal Decisions in the Fight for Sovereignty
• Author: Jill Norgren, Kermit L. Hall
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780806136066
• ISBN: 0806136065
• ID: 11524976
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Weight: 272 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 133 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. April 2004

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