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Websites
- National Indian Law LibraryThe National Indian Law Library (NILL) of the Native American Rights Fund is a law library devoted to federal Indian and tribal law. NILL maintains a unique and valuable collection of Indian law resources and assists people with their Indian law-related research needs.
- Native American Law & Legal SourcesA guide from the UW Law Library with an introduction to legal materials available at the UW Law Library on Native Americans and other native peoples of the US, such as Native Alaskans and Hawaiians. Includes treaties, statutes, executive orders, court decisions, and administrative actions.
- Great Lakes Indigenous Law CenterThe Great Lakes Indigenous Law Center (GLILC) was established in 1992 at the UW-Madison Law School to improve the practical legal skills of all students interested in Federal Indian Law while providing a legal resource for Native Nations.
- Directory of Federal, Wisconsin, and Tribal CourtsFrom the state bar of Wisconsin, find directory information for Wisconsin Tribal Courts.
- American Indian Law: An OverviewFrom the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School.
- Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council, Inc. (GLITC)The Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council, Inc. (GLITC) shall be a diligent advocate for the advancement and promotion of tribal nations and communities by honoring the seventh-generation perspective.
Books
Native American Nationalism and Nation Re-Building by Call Number: Click title for availabilityPublication Date: 2016Presents an interdisciplinary analysis of the recent developments of Native American nationalism and nationhood in the United States and Canada.
The Legal Ideology of Removal: The Southern Judiciary and the Sovereignty of Native American Nations by Call Number: Online AccessPublication Date: 2010This study is the first to show how state courts enabled the mass expulsion of Native Americans from their southern homelands in the 1830s. Readers will gain a broader perspective on the racial views of the southern legal elite, and on the logical inconsistencies of southern law and politics in the conceptual period of the anti-Indian and proslavery ideologies.
Documents of Native American Political Development, 1500 to 1933 by Call Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 2009This book contains a variety of primary source and other documents--traditional accounts, tribal constitutions, legal codes, business councils, rules and regulations, BIA agents reports, congressional discourse, intertribal compacts--written both by Natives from many different nations and somenon-Natives, that reflect how indigenous peoples continued to exercise a significant measure of self-determination long after it was presumed to have been lost, surrendered, or vanquished
