Saturday, October 24, 2009

Native American Law Review Center/ October 24, 2009

Legal Sources
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act Resource Center
American Indian Law Review
American Indian Law Review Index Page includes links to an Articles, Commentaries and Notes Index; an Author and Book Review Index; a Legislation, Statutes and Treaties Index; a Subject Index; a Table of Cases; and a Tribal Index.
Bureau of Indian Affairs Federal Acknowledgement Decision Compilation
The database is an online version of the Acknowledgment Decision Compilation (ADC), a record of documents that the Bureau of Indian Affairs has on file for groups that have gone through the federal recognition process.
Cobell Lawsuit
Material related to the case, including important court rulings and orders, and Quarterly Reports to the Court submitted to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Collected by the DOI Office of Special Trustee.
Cornell Legal Information Institute
Cornell Legal Information Institute provides a list of virtually all legislation that pertains to Indian Law with links to the full text of the legislation.
Early Recognized Treaties with American Indian Nations
Published by University of Nebraska Libraries Electronic Text Center. Provides access to the nine federally recognized Indian treaties that are absent from volume 2 of Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, by Charles J. Kappler (see below). This site therefore complements the digitized Kappler collection provided by the Oklahoma State University Library Electronic Publishing Center. All 375 treaties are now available online through these two resources.
FindLaw Indian and Native Peoples Law
Guide to Law Online: United States, Indians
The Guide to Law Online is a selective, annotated compendium of Internet links produced by the Law Library of Congress. In compiling this list, emphasis is on sites offering the full texts of laws, regulations, and court decisions, along with commentary from lawyers writing primarily for other lawyers. Materials related to law and government that were written by or for lay persons also have been included, as have government sites providing general information.
U.S. Dept. of the Interior Office of Hearings and Appeals

The office provides access to these decisions:

A and M Decisions
Copps Mineral and Public Land Laws (1881, 1890)
Digest of Grazing Decisions (1993-2001)
Director's Decisions (1996 to the present)
Hearings Division (Selected, 2000 to the present)
IBIA Decisions (1970 to the present)
IBLA Decisions (1970 to the present)
Land Decisions (181-1929) and Interior Decisions (1930-1994)
Solicitor's Decisions (1993 to the present)
Board of Indian Appeals
Board of Land Appeals
Cumulative chronological list of decisions issued by the Board of Indian Appeals
Index of Native American Legal Resources on the Internet
Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties
Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler. Hosted by the Oklahoma State University Library. Volumes I through VII are available on the web both as fully searchable digitized text and as page images.
Indian Claims Commission Decisions
Digitized by the Oklahoma State University Library, and produced in cooperation with the University of Tulsa Law Library and the National Indian Law Library.
Indian Land Cessions in the United States: U.S. Serial Set Number 4015
Indian Law Bulletins
A current awareness service of the National Indian Law Library
Indian Law Resource Center
Legal advocacy for the protection of indigenous peoples' human rights, cultures, and traditional lands so that Indian tribes and nations may flourish for generations to come.
National Indian Law Library
A public law library devoted to federal Indian and tribal law
National Tribal Justice Resource Center
Established by the National American Indian Court Judges Association
Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project
This Project is a cooperative effort among the University of Oklahoma Law Center, the National Indian Law Library, and Native American tribes providing access to the Constitutions, Tribal Codes, and other legal documents.
Native American Documents Project
This project was begun in 1992 to develop methods for making documents of Federal Indian policy history accessible by computer. Many documents were taken from microfilmed collections of reports and letters in the National Archives. Others were taken from official publications, mainly the annual reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Native American Law Blog
A member of the law professor blogs network. Official Blog of the AALS Section on Native American Law
Navajo-Hopi Land Commission Papers
Presented by the Fourth World Documentation Project, tis web site has links to the Navajo-Hopi Land Commission Papers.
Tribal Court Clearinghouse
The Tribal Court Clearinghouse is designed as a resource for tribal justice systems and others involved in the enhancement of justice in Indian country.
Turtle Talk
Turtle Talk is the blog for the Indigenous Law and Policy Center at Michigan State University College of Law. There are news items related to Indian law and politics, with a special emphasis on topics related to Indian tribes in Michigan and the Great Lakes region. In addition, Turtle Talk offers links to every Supreme Court case involving federal Indian law from 1959 to the present.
University of Oklahoma Law Center - Native American Legal Resources



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