Legal Opinion
Cherokee Nation v. Nash
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided August 30, 2017No. Civil Action No. 2013-1313PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Thomas F. Hogan, Senior United States District Judge
Although it is a grievous axiom of American history that the Cherokee Nation’s narrative is steeped in sorrow as a result of United States governmental policies that marginalized Native American Indians and removed them from their- lands, 1 it is, perhaps, lesser known that both nations’ chronicles share the shameful taint of African slavery. 2 This lawsuit harkens back a century-and-a-half ago to a -treaty entered into between the United States and the Cherokee Nation in the aftermath of the Civil War. In that treaty, the…
2Cases cited74 opinions
- Perrin v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Cherokee Nation v. State of GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1831
- Washington v. Washington State Commercial Passenger Fishing Vessel Assn.Supreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Medellin v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 2008
- Helvering v. Stockholms Enskilda BankSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
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3Cited by13 opinions
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- PARKER v. STATECourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 2021
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