| William Rudolph Smith - Wisconsin - 1854 - 432 pages
...perhaps, be denominated domestic dependent nations. Their relations to the United States resemble that of a ward to his guardian. They look to our government for protection; rely upon its kindness and its power; appeal to it for relief to their wants ; and address the President... | |
| R. Peters - 1856 - 652 pages
...ceases ; meanwhile they are in a state of pupilage. Their relations to the United States resemble that of a ward to his guardian. They look to our government for protection ; rely upon its kindness and its power; appeal to it for relief to their wants; and address the President... | |
| United States. Congress - United States - 1858 - 636 pages
...doubted that vast quantities of gold and silver, copper, lead, and iron ores are to be found imbedded in its soil; and their discovery and development could...wants." While we negotiate treaties with them, which arc ratified with all the solemnity befitting a contract to which nations arc parties, we undertake... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1858 - 638 pages
...could not fail to conduce to the public prosperity. The report of the Commissioner of Indian Affaire furnishes an interesting view of a peculiar people,...negotiate treaties with them, which are ratified with all tho solemnity befitting a contract to which nations are parlies, we undertake to construe and execute... | |
| Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 792 pages
...ceases ; meanwhile they are in a state of pupilage. Their relations to the United Slates resemble that of a ward to his guardian. They look to our government for protection ; rely upon its kindness and its power; appeal to it for relief to their wants ; and address the President... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 526 pages
...— meanwhile they are in ¡i state of pupilage ; their relations to the United States resemble that of a ward to his guardian ; they look to our government for protection; rely upon its kindness and its power ; appeal to it for relief of their wants ; and address the pr<_sident... | |
| Jacob Piatt Dunn - Americana - 1886 - 816 pages
...ceases. Meanwhile they are in a state of pupilage; their relation to the United States resembles that of a ward to his guardian. They look to our government for protection, rely upon its kindness and its power, appeal to it for relief to their wants, and address the President... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 1282 pages
...opinion of Judge Talcott in Ryan v. Knorr, 19 Hun, 540. He states that the Indian tribes are not foreign nations. Their relations to the United States resemble those of a ward to his guardian. They are independent political communities, retaining the right of self-government, subject to the protecting... | |
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