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 Tribal sovereignty in the United States Indigenous self-government in Canada

Tribes are sovereign governments, not racial classifications Tribes are governments, not racial classification, Morton v. Mancari Native American Tribal Enrollment Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez

Citizenship Native American Citizenship The Politics of Inclusion: Indigenous Peoples and U.S. Citizenship, by Rebecca Tsosie (UCLA Law Review) Native American identity in the United States Determining Native American and Indigenous Canadian identities (WP:IPNA essay)

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 Native American Water & Land Rights American Indian Territoriality: An Online Research Guide (downloadable PDF) Indigenous land rights Aboriginal title in the United States

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 Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990 Tribal Law and Order Act (2010) Indigenous Intellectual Property Indian arts and crafts laws Cherokee Nation Truth in Advertising for Native Art

Peacemaking and conflict resolution Indigenous Native American Peacemaking

Civil rights Civil Rights Act of 1968 Native American civil rights

Repatriation and reburial of remains, artifacts and cultural property Repatriation and reburial research resources (link also has good book resources)

Tribal education Tribal Education law Language and Diversity Program, Native Education Program (Southwest) National Indian Education Association Laws pertaining to Indian residential schools

Child welfare Child welfare and children's rights

Identification Indigenous identity, being, and belonging Native American identity in the United States Warren, Trump, and the Question of Native American Identity, (Harvard Law Review) Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez, 436 U.S. 49 (1978)

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 Tribal Trademark Law Washington Redskins trademark dispute

By states or regions List of federally recognized tribes in the contiguous United States List of Alaska Native tribal entities Alaska Federation of Natives Alaska Native Justice Center Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians Montana Indian Law

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 A path through difficult conversations about Indigenous identity, Canadian Bar Association The Population Boom of the Self-Identified Indigenous and our Dwindling Nationhood The Council of Canadians

See also Canadian Aboriginal law Native American reservation politics Hawaiian sovereignty movement - not North America, but part of the United States List of United States Supreme Court cases involving Indian tribes Indian country jurisdiction

References

Further reading Anderson, Terry L., and Dominic P. Parker. 2024. “Culture, Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law: Lessons from Indian Country.” (required log in) Public Choice 199 (3/4): 405–19. doi:10.1007/s11127-022-01026-9. Piano EE, Rouanet L. The calculus of american indian consent: the law and economics of tribal constitutions (required Wikipedia Library access). Public Choice. 2024;199(3/4):341-366. doi:10.1007/s11127-022-01007-y Reilly, John. Bad Law : Rethinking Justice for a Postcolonial Canada (requires log in). Vol First edition. RMB | Rocky Mountain Books; 2019. Accessed January 24, 2025. Serrurier, Alex H. 2024. “Indigeneity in the Classroom: Avenues for Native American Students to Challenge Anti-Critical Race Theory Laws.” (requires log in). Columbia Journal of Law & Social Problems 57 (3): 543–85.

External links Native American Rights Fund Aboriginal Law & Indigenous Laws, Queen's University Library reading list