1. Early cases in the U.S. Supreme Court involving the Native American tribes were concerned with whether the states or the federal government had power over the tribes. 

(a) How was this question decided? 

(b) What political considerations were relevant to the decision?

2. The U.S. Supreme Court decided that the Native American Tribes were “domestic dependent nations.” (a) Did this give the tribes the rights of a foreign sovereign nation?

(b) What relationship was created between these “nations” and the U.S. government ?