1. Cherokee Nation v. Georgia 1831

2. Cherokee Nation v. Georgia 1831
President Thomas Jefferson encouraged Indian people to adopt white ways, the Cherokees were the most involved in the white way of life.
Farming
Businesses
Grain and lumber mills
Black slaves

3. Cherokee Nation v. Georgia 1831
In the 1820’s the legislatures of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi voted to invalidate treaties allowing special self-governing status to Indian lands. Since the federal government was responsible for Indian policy, this caused a problem to federal authority, but the resisting states had presidential support.
President Andrew Jackson pushed for the U.S. Congress to pass the Indian Removal Act which allowed state officials to override federal protection of Native Americans.
Jackson sent federal officials to negotiate removal treaties, which most of the southern tribes signed except the Cherokees. They fought against their removal by using the law.

4. Cherokee Nation v. Georgia 1831
John Ross- Cherokee Chief
William Wirt- Attorney general defending Cherokee
John Marshall- Chief Justice
The Cherokee Nation wanted a federal injunction against laws passed by the state of Georgia for not permitting them their given rights.
The Supreme Court did not hear the case and ruled that it had no original jurisdiction, the Cherokee were a dependent nation with the United States.

5. CHEROKEE NATION v. GEORGIA 1831
Court ruled the Cherokee were not a sovereign nation, but a dependent one.
Had no standing to bring a lawsuit to the Supreme Court. (no original jurisdiction)
DID have a right to their land.
Georgia ignored the ruling.