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List of Native American and First Nations law resources

United States

General law resources and databases

  • Native American Rights Fund
  • National Indian Law Library
  • Indian Law Resource Center
  • Indian Law Research Guides
  • National Tribal Justice Resource Center
  • Native American Law Research Guide (Georgetown Law Library)
  • Tribal Law Gateway
  • Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project
  • American Indian Law Center, Inc.
  • American Indian Policy Center
  • Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior
  • National Congress of American Indians
  • National American Indian Court Judges Association
  • National Native American Law Enforcement Association
  • Tribal Court Clearinghouse
  • Native American Law Center Resources (University of Washington)
  • Tribal Law and Policy Institute
  • American Indian Law Resources (Northwestern University)
  • Native American Law Resources (University of Oklahoma)
  • American Indian Law: A Beginner's Guide from the Library of Congress
  • Native American Law Guide: Federal Indian Law and Tribal Law materials (University of California at Los Angeles)
  • Law Library of Congress' Indians of North American Guide
  • Native American civil rights
  • National Congress of American Indians
  • Indian Law (Harvard Law Review) (multiple pages of cases)
  • Tribal Access to Justice Information
  • Institute for Native Justice

Tribal law materials by each individual tribe

  • Tribal Law Gateway
  • Indian Law and Order Commission

Tribal recognition

  • Native American Tribal Recognition

Tribal sovereignty

Tribes are sovereign governments, not racial classifications

Citizenship

Border crossing rights

  • Native American Citizenship and Borders

Land claims

  • Indian Claims Commission, entire 43 volume set of claims decisions from 1946 to 1978 can be found here, or downloadable here, or with access to ProQuest here.
  • Indian Trust settlements

Water and land rights

Ritual object repatriation

  • Reading list on U.S.Tribe relations regarding ritual object repatriation

Sacred sites and places protection

  • Native American Sacred Places research
  • Native American Sacred Sites and the Federal Government
  • Challenges to Sacred Site Protection, by Rebecca Tsosie
  • Old Ground and New Directions at Sacred Sites on the Western Landscape by Kristen A. Carpenter

Arts and Crafts laws

Peacemaking and conflict resolution

  • Indigenous Native American Peacemaking

Civil rights

Repatriation and reburial of remains, artifacts and cultural property

  • Repatriation and reburial research resources (link also has good book resources)

Tribal education

Child welfare

  • Child welfare and children's rights

Identification

Environment, environmental justice, climate change

  • General climate science reports
  • Tribal Climate Change Guide
  • Facing the Storm: Indian Tribes, Climate-Induced Weather Extremes, and the Future for Indian Country (report of the National Wildlife Federation)
  • Environmental Protection in Indian Country (EPA)

Tribal trademark law

By states or regions

Canada

General law resources and databases

  • Indigenous law/Indigenous legal traditions (University of Victoria)
  • Truth and reconciliation commission of Canada
  • Indigenous law and Aboriginal law (Toronto Metropolitan University)
  • Indigenous peoples and the law (University of Calgary)
  • Aboriginal law and Indigenous law (Queens University)

Border crossing rights

  • Native American Citizenship and Borders

Identification

See also

References

Further reading

External links