<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Laws applied </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> U.S. Const . art . III </Td> </Tr> <P> Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 30 U.S. (5 Pet .) 1 (1831), was a United States Supreme Court case . The Cherokee Nation sought a federal injunction against laws passed by the U.S. state of Georgia depriving them of rights within its boundaries, but the Supreme Court did not hear the case on its merits . It ruled that it had no original jurisdiction in the matter, as the Cherokees were a dependent nation, with a relationship to the United States like that of a "ward to its guardian," as said by Justice Marshall . </P> <P> The Cherokee people had lived in Georgia in what is now the southeastern United States for thousands of years . In 1542, Hernando de Soto conducted an expedition through the southeastern United States and came into contact with at least three Cherokee villages . The English immigrants to the Carolinas began to trade with the tribe beginning in 1673 . By 1711, the English were providing guns to the Cherokees in exchange for their help in fighting the Tuscarora tribe in the Tuscarora War . Cherokee trade with the English colonists of South Carolina and Georgia increased, and in the 1740s the Cherokee began to transition to a commercial hunting and farming lifestyle . In 1775, one Cherokee village was described as having 100 houses, each with a garden, orchard, hothouse, and hog pens . After a war with the colonists, the Cherokee signed a peace treaty in 1785 . In 1791 the Treaty of Holston was signed by Cherokee leaders and William Blount for the United States . </P>

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