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 law materials by each individual tribe
- Tribal Law Gateway
- Indian Law and Order Commission
Tribal recognition
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
Land claims
- Indian Claims Commission , entire 43 volume set of claims decisions from 1946-1978 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)
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
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
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)
By states or regions
- Alaska Federation of Natives
- 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
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
References
- "Tribes are governments, not racial classifications". Indian Law Resource Center. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
- Malloy, Kerry (30 July 2024). "US citizenship was forced on Native Americans 100 years ago − its promise remains elusive". Alaska Beacon. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
- "Why the federal government needs to change how it collects data on Native Americans". Brookings Institute. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
- "Tribal Nations and the United States". National Congress of American Indians. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
- Vance, Austin R. "For the Children: Indian Status Is a Political Classification". Oklahoma Bar Association. Oklahoma Bar Journal. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
- Gampa, Vikas; Bernard, Kenneth; Oldani, Michael J. "Racialization as a Barrier to Achieving Health Equity for Native Americans". AMA Journal of Ethics. American Medical Association. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
- "Morton v. Mancari, 417 U.S. 535 (1974)". U.S. Supreme Court.
- Kimberly TallBear (2003). "DNA, Blood, and Racializing the Tribe". Wíčazo Ša Review. 18 (1). University of Minnesota Press: 81–107. doi:10.1353/wic.2003.0008. JSTOR 140943. S2CID 201778441.
- Furukawa, Julia (11 November 2024). "Review of genealogies, other records fails to support local leaders' claims of Abenaki ancestry". New Hampshire Public Radio. Retrieved 7 July 2023.
- "The Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990". Justia: Supreme Court of the United States. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
- Gonzales, Angela A.; Kertész, Judy (Summer 2020). "Indigenous identity, being, and belonging". Contexts. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
- "Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez, 436 U.S. 49 (1978)". Justia: U.S. Supreme Court. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
- Pearl, Tamara (Baldhead). "A path through difficult conversations about Indigenous identity". Canadian Bar Association. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
- Eagleclaw, Thom. "The Population Boom of the Self-Identified Indigenous and our Dwindling Nationhood". The Council of Canadians. Retrieved 11 November 2024.