Indian wards
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 232 U.S. 478 - Perrin v. United States · 1914Most cited · 97 citing opinions
federal protective power
These Indian tribes are the wards of the Nation. They are communities dependent on the United States. ... From their very weakness and helplessness, so largely due to the course of dealing of the Federal government with them and the treaties in which it has been promised, there arises the duty of protection, and with it the power.
How often courts cite the case defining “Indian wards”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Indian wards” — 145 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.