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- The_Cherokee_Tobacco comment "The Cherokee Tobacco Case 1870 is a United States court case with implications relating to tribal sovereignty in the United States.Two Cherokee men, Elias C. Boudinot and Stand Watie, refused to pay taxes on tobacco manufactured in the Cherokee Nation, as required by the Internal Revenue Act 1868. They argued that they were exempt from paying the taxes by the Cherokee Treaty of 1866.".