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such as John Stuart Mill's definition in terms of invariant succession

a paradox that reduced Indigenous people to mere evidence for his pragmatism rather than as a contemporary constituency who might have benefited from its application

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Sovereignty on Trial Liesl Miller Orenic yacht clubsThe story of the legal battle between the Cherokee Nation and the State of Georgia that ultimately led to the infamous Trail of Tears and the ongoing struggles for Native sovereignty. Sovereignty on Trial tells the story of a trio of landmark United States Supreme Court cases Johnson v. M'Intosh (1823), Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831), and Worcester v. Georgia (1832) that considered the legal status of Native nations in the early nineteenth century.