Native American Legal Research Guide

Faye Hadley, Native American Resources/Reference Law Librarian
m-hadley@utulsa.edu / phone: 631-2457
Mabee Legal Information Center, University of Tulsa College of Law
Last Updated: January 3, 2007

Introduction: Research in Native American law can be more complicated than traditional legal research. This is due in part to the fact that while the federal courts have traditionally exercised primary authority over Indian matters, many issues involve the competing jurisdiction of federal, state, tribal and other local authorities. In addition, understanding the history behind the primary law resources in this area is essential, since they need to be interpreted based on the historical context in which they were negotiated, signed, or decided. This guide is intended to help you get started on your research in the Mabee Legal Information Center.

A word about our Native American Law Collections: A note to the researcher: you may notice that the locations vary from Native American Law Center (NALC) to the MLIC Reserve/Reference to the Indigenous People's Collection. This is because we have attempted to place our primary and the rarer items in our collection in the Native American Law Center while keeping the treatises more available in the stacks (Indigenous People's Collection) or making sure the highly used items in our collection are available to whomever may want to consult them (MLIC Reserve /Reference). We hope that you can find whatever you are looking for. Please remember that Reference Librarians are available from 8:00am to 8:00pm (Monday - Thursday), 8: 00 to 5:00pm (Friday), and 1: 00 to 5:00pm (Saturday) to assist you in finding what you need.

Beginning Your Research:

Periodicals:

You may want to begin your research with a law review article or an A.L.R. Annotation (both sources provide you with ample references or footnotes to help you chart a path into your legal topic.)
Searching for relevant law review articles can be accomplished using several databases that are available via the MLIC home page:
-LegalTrac/InfoTrac
-HeinOnline
-EBSCOHost
Many law reviews are indexed in LegalTrac/InfoTrac (available from the MLIC home page under "Research Tools," then under "Electronic Subscriptions.")
Full-text articles can be found on HeinOnline and EBSCOHost (as well as Westlaw and LEXIS).

Periodicals that Address Native Issues:

--Tribal Law Journal (UNM - online at http://tlj.unm.edu)
--Native American Report
Location: MLIC NALC KF8201.A3 N385
--Indian Country Today
Location: MLIC NALC Newspapers & online:
(http://www.indiancountry.com/) MLIC only retains the last 6 months)
--Native American Law Report
Location: MLIC NALC KF8201.A3 N383
--Justice as Healing A Newsletter on Aboriginal Concepts of Justice
Location: MLIC NALC KE7702 .J87
--American Indian Law Review
Location: MLIC Periodicals K1 .M547 - with the current issues available at the Circulation Desk (MLIC Reserve) and additional copies are available in the NALC. This is a traditional academic law review that is devoted exclusively to Native legal issues. It is published twice each year and is well-indexed through 1996. (http://www.law.ou.edu/lawrevs/ailr/)

HeinOnline:

American Indian Law Review (full-text coverage: 1973 - 2005)

EbscoHost Databases:

Academic Search Elite:

--American Indian Culture & Research Journal (1996 - present).
--American Indian Quarterly (1990 - present).
--Native American Connections (1996 - present).
--News from Native California (2002 - present).
--Anthropological Linguistics (1990 - present).

Secondary Sources:

Secondary sources are often the best way to start legal research, especially if you do not have much experience in an area of law. Remember that secondary sources are not the actual "law" itself, but are "about the law" and often explain, analyze or comment on "the law". Examples of some secondary sources in the area of Native American Law are:

Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law
Editor-in-Chief, Nell Jessup Newton; executive editors, Robert T. Anderson ... [et al.] ; associate editor, Bethany R. Berger; contributing authors, Kenneth Bobroff ... [et al.]].
Location: MLIC Reserve, E98.L34 C633 2005 & NALC E98.L34 C633 2005
Revised edition of the Handbook of Federal Indian Law, by Felix S. Cohen. 1982 ed. Board of authors and editors, Rennard Strickland, editor-in-chief ... [et al.] ; contributing writers, Denis Binder ... [et al.]. Originally published in 1941. Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Historical development and background of Indian policy, principles of interpretation, Indian tribes, Indians, and Indian
country, Indian tribal governments, tribal/federal relationship, tribal/state relationship, civil jurisdiction, taxation, criminal jurisdiction, Environmental regulation in Indian country, Indian child welfare act, Indian gaming, liquor regulation, civil rights, tribal property, individual Indian property, natural resources, hunting, fishing, and gathering rights, water rights, tribal cultural resources, economic development, and government services for Indians.

Felix S. Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law, 1982 edition
Editor-in-Chief: Rennard Strickland
Location: MLIC Reserve, E98.L34 C633 1982, 4 copies
This scholarly 1982 revision of the classic 1942 treatise by Felix Cohen is an essential resource for understanding federal Indian law issues. Although not up to date, it is still a valuable source of information.

Indian Law Reporter
Location: MLIC NALC KF8201 .A315
This looseleaf service is a cross between a secondary source and a case reporter reporting primary authority. Only certain cases are reproduced in their entirety. Administrative rules and proceedings are also included. The inclusion of news, announcements, and commentary give this multi-volume set its secondary source feel.

American Indian Law in a Nutshell, 4th ed. (2004)
William C. Canby, Jr.
Location: MLIC Reserve E98.L34 C25 2004, 2 copies
This is one area of law in which noone need be embarrassed about using a nutshell. Written by Judge William Canby of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, this paperback volume is a must for anyone just starting out to research Native American Law. It gives a fine view of the historical context of Native American Law in a readable format. A good index and table of contents, and a handy table of cases makes finding information easy. Older versions can be found in the stacks at the same call number.

Cases and Materials on Federal Indian Law
David H. Getches, Charles F. Wilkinson, Robert A. Williams, Jr.
Location: MLIC Reserve, E98 .G374
Cases and Materials on Federal Indian Law by Professor David H. Getches and Professor Charles F. Wilkinson of the University of Colorado School of Law and Professor Robert A. Williams, Jr., of the University of Arizona College of Law, is divided into two parts. Part I covers the history of federal Indian law and policy, including material on the history of the European "Doctrine of Discovery" and American Indian rights; the formative years (1789-1871); and a century of shifting policy (1871-present). Part II covers federal Indian law in its contemporary perspective, including material on several topics. These topics include the federal tribal relationship, tribal sovereignty, federal supremacy, and states' rights, the jurisdictional framework, Indian religion and culture, fishing and hunting rights, and others.

American Indian Law Deskbook Conference of Western Attorneys General, Chair, editing committee, Joseph P. Mazurek; Chief Editors, Julie Wrend, Clay Smith.
Location: MLIC Reference, E98.L34 A5232
"While not meant to replace the voluminous Cases and Materials on Federal Indian Law by Getches and Wilkinson, this guide is a welcome aid for those who need a quick secondary reference to laws, cases, and essays on the background of our changing relations with the tribes of Indian Country. A collaborative effort of the Attorney General's offices of ten western states, the deskbook outlines historical and current developments in the areas of land use and rights, criminal law, civil rights, water rights, hunting and fishing regulations, environmental regulation, taxation, gaming, child welfare, and other cooperative agreements. While not the definitive treatise on the subject, this will be, nonetheless, a tremendously helpful document for students and policymakers. A highly recommended text for classes on Native American policy." (Taken from a review by Steve Brock).

The Encyclopedia of Native American Legal Tradition
Edited by Bruce Elliott Johansen ; Foreword by Charles Riley Cloud.
Location: MLIC Reference, E76.2 .E536 1998
This is a 448 page book examining the Native side of legal traditions and law. "This book integrates American Indian law and Native American political and legal traditions, and includes detailed descriptions of nearly two dozen Native legal and political systems, such as the Iroquois, Cherokee, Choctaw, Navajo, Cheyenne, Creek, Chickasaw, Comanche, Sioux, Pueblo, Mandan, Wyandot, Powhatan, Mikmaq, and Yakima. Although, not an Indian law casebook, this work does contain outlines of major Indian law cases, congressional acts, and treaties. It also contains profiles of individuals important to the evolution of Indian law. This work will be of interest to scholars in several fields, including law, Native American studies, American history, political science, anthropology, and sociology." This book was published in February, 1998 and is authored by Bruce Elliott Johansen, Professor of Journalism and Native American Studies at the University of Nebraska.

American Indian Legal Materials: A Union List (1980)
Compiler: Laura N. Gasaway
Location: MLIC, First Floor, E77 .G27 1980
The Indian law holdings of 28 law libraries are alphabetically arranged and assigned entry numbers. While not up to date, it is a good resource for locating older items not otherwise available. Mabee Legal Information Center has most of the listings included in this publication on microfiche.

Manual of Indian Gaming Law (Annotated)
Edited by Ralph Reeser
Location: MLIC, NALC, KF8210.G36 M36
This useful looseleaf is updated regularly (January, May and September each year). It is a compendium of information about Indian Gaming Law, including all regulatory law regarding Indian Gaming and a selection of both Federal and State case law. It also includes a handy table that presents the Tribal Name and the State with which the Tribe made the gaming compact, the date of the compact with the State, and the citation that the gaming compact can be found in the Federal Register.

Handbook on the Indian Child Welfare Act
C. Steven Hager with Tina Law; edited by Colline Meek and Michael Snyder.
Location: MLIC, IPC E98.C5 H24 1997
In 1978, Congress enacted the Indian Child Welfare Act to address the systemic problems facing Native American tribes and families concerning their children; the act set out procedures for notice to tribes and families in cases of adoption, foster placement, dependency and neglect proceedings against parents, and other situations where parental rights of Native Americans were at risk.

Locating Other Books Available at TU Libraries:

Innopac, the University Libraries online catalog is the place to start. University of Tulsa Mabee Legal Information Center (MLIC) has a number of Library Catalog terminals on all three floors of the library. For a targeted search of Native American Law issues, it is recommended that you use Library of Congress (LC) Subject Headings. The most useful subject heading to use is: The most useful subject heading to use is:

Indians of North America

with subdivisions including, but not limited to:

-Adoption
-Bibliography
-Child Welfare
-Civil Rights
-Claims
-Claims Against Property
-Courts
-Gaming
-Government Relations
-Land Transfers
-Legal status, Laws, etc.
-Politics and Government
-Treaties

Individual tribal names are also useful as search terms. For example:

-Navajo
-Pueblo of Jemez
-Ho-Chunk
-Omaha

Always use a subdivision with the main subject "Indians of North America." If you don't, you will soon see that you are retrieving many more documents than you can realistically review.

Don't forget that you can always use the words in your subject-heading search in a key word search. Just remember that this won't be a full-text search like WESTLAW or LEXIS. All Innopac is searching is the record that the catalog has for the book. The record may not use the exact word or words that you have used in your key word search. That is why the subject-heading search is more powerful and is recommended for this research. However, if the researcher does do a keyword search it is easily convertible to a subject-heading search by clicking on the subject-heading field in the catalog record.

Locating Material Available Elsewhere:

A researcher may want to explore other holdings outside the TU Library System. If so, the researcher may want to consult FirstSearch (WorldCat) by accessing the web site via the MLIC homepage by clicking on "Research Tools" and then clicking on "Electronic Subscriptions" and then select "FirstSearch." Enter a Keyword , Title or Author search.

Primary Sources of Native American Indian Law:

Primary sources are the actual law. In Native American legal research, you will have the following main primary sources: treaties, cases, statutes, regulations and executive orders.

Treaties:

Chronological List of Treaties and Agreements Made by Indian Tribes with the United States, (American Indian Treaty Series)
(Introduction by Vine Deloria, Jr.)
Location: MLIC, Law IPC, E95 .C46 1973
Treaties and agreements are listed by date with a citation to a source for the text. No texts are given in this work. Most of the citations are to the Statutes at Large. The inclusion of agreements in this reference distinguishes it from other sources.

United States Statutes at Large v.7 (1789 - 1845)
Location: MLIC, Second Floor, FEDERAL
Statutes at Large Volume 7 is a compilation of Indian treaties entered into from 1778 through 1845. The treaties are in chronological order, and are indexed by tribal name. After Volumes 7 and 8 (the first compilations of Indian and non-Indian treatises), texts of treaties were regularly published in a separate section at the end of each Statutes at Large volume. Indian treaties are intermingled with all others. They are indexed within each volume by tribal name and are also listed under the index headings INDIAN AFFAIRS, INDIAN TREATIES or INDIAN DEPARTMENT. Volume 16 of Statutes at Large carries the last substantial number of treaties, although stray treaty texts appear in later volumes, as they were found and published. Statutes at Large can also be used to trace subsequent congressional action in furtherance of treaty obligations. For example, appropriations for meeting treaty obligations to furnish supplies, schools and farm implements to tribes are easily researched in the INDIAN index entries of the Statutes at Large.

Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties
Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler. 7 volumes
Location: MLIC NALC, I 1.107
Also available online at Oklahoma State University: (vols. 1 - 7)
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/index.htm A chronologically arranged compilation of treaties, statutes, executive actions and miscellaneous information on Indian affairs from 1778 through 1938. All volumes have extensive tables of contents and indexes. Volume 2 is the best available compilation of Indian treaties. The index to v. 2 doubles as a guide to the name and number of treaties signed by various tribes. Volume 1 has a turn of the century listing of over 275 tribes and bands. Texts of un-ratified treaties are included throughout the set. The contents pages list the special features of each volume.

Treaties and Agreements of the Five Civilized Tribes, (American Indian Treaty Series)
Location: MLIC NALC, E78.I5 U53 1970
This volume contains texts of the treaties with the Five Civilized Tribes.

Documents of American Indian Diplomacy: Treaties, Agreements, and Conventions, 1775-1979
[compiled by] Vine Deloria, Jr. and Raymond J. Demallie; with a forward by Daniel K. Inouye, 1999.
Location: MLIC, NALC KF8202 1999, 2 vols.
An excellent compilation of all treaties, including several unratified treaties.

Updating Indian Treaties:

Felix S. Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law
"Annotated Table of Statutes and Treaties," pp. 485-608. (1982 edition)
Location: MLIC Reserve, E98 .L34 C633 1982, 4 copies
This table functions as a citator from Indian laws and treaties in the Statutes at Large to legislative history materials, cases, attorney general opinions, published and unpublished Department of the Interior decisions and memoranda, unpublished memoranda of the Department of Justice Lands Division, legal texts and periodicals, and government documents. There are also parallel citations from the Statutes at Large to the United States Code. Although now dated, this table leads to a wealth of early material that cannot be located through standard indices.

Shepard's Federal Statute Citations
Location: MLIC, Second Floor, Shepard's
Use the section "United States Statutes at Large (Not Included in the United States Code)." In this section Indian treaties can be shepardized from their date and Statutes at Large citation. Research in Shepard's must begin with the year of the treaty. Early Indian treaties (1787-1845) were all cumulated in v. 7 of the Statutes at Large, but in Shepard's they appear under the year of the treaty, then the v.7 citation.

Notes to Uncodified Law and Treaties (USCS)
Location: MLIC, Second Floor, FEDERAL
This volume is a part of the United States Code Service set which includes the United States Code. This volume is shelved after the code volumes. Interpretive notes and case decisions are given in a special "Indian Treaties" section of the volume that is updated annually by a pocket part. This is the most convenient single source for litigation in federal or state courts. Court of Claims decisions are included. Indian Claims Commission decisions are not included.

Statutes and Legislation:

United States Constitution
See Chapter 3 in Felix S. Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law for a thorough discussion of the Constitution as a source of federal power over Indian affairs. "Commerce with Indian Tribes" is annotated in a separate section of commerce clause coverage in USCA and USCS. Annotations on "Indian Treaties" appear under the Constitutional clause granting power to enter treaties to the President.

Statutes:

Most laws pertaining to Indians are codified at Title 25 of the United States Code. However, other important legislation is scattered throughout the codes. Use INDIANS and INDIAN LANDS as index terms. New and pending legislation on Indian affairs can be tracked in the Congressional Index using the index term INDIAN AFFAIRS.

Tribal Courts & Codes:

Oklahoma Tribal Court Reports: A Compilation of Cases Decided by the Tribal Courts, Courts of Indian Offenses, (Appellate Division), Courts of Indian Appeals, and Courts of Indian Offenses in the State of Oklahoma
Location: MLIC Okla. Coll.-2nd Floor, KFO1245.O4 O44

Mabee Legal Information Center has a fairly extensive collection of Tribal Codes. Again, the best way to check is to do a word search in Innopac including the Tribal Name and the word "Code".
Here's an example:
-Navajo Nation Code
Location: MLIC NALC, KF8228.N3 A5 2005

Indian Tribal Codes, a Microfiche Collection of Indian Tribal Law Codes
Ralph W. Johnson, editor; Richard Davies, associate editor.
Location: MLIC microfiche, E98.L34 I518 1988; Located in Cabinet 36, Drawer B
Updates the first edition of Indian tribal codes, a microfiche collection of American Indian tribal codes published in 1981 by the Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library.

You may also want to check out the following URL (http://www.tribal-institute.org/), the web site for the Tribal Court Clearinghouse (Tribal Law & Policy Institute) if you are looking for a model tribal code.

American Indian Policy Review Commission
Meetings of the American Indian Policy Review Commission
Location: McFarlin Government Documents, Y 4.In 2/11:Am 3
This Commission was created in 1965 to conduct a comprehensive review of the historical and legal developments underlying the unique federal relationships with Indians and to recommend revisions in policies. The Commission's Final Report is a source of facts, opinions and Indian policy documentation. The recommendations of the Commission touch on almost every aspect of Indian policy.

American Indian Policy Review Commission. Final Report
Location: MLIC NALC, E93 .A25 1976
Submitted to Congress May 17, 1977. 2 vols. This report lists 2106 specific recommendations made by the Commission on the scope and nature of necessary revision in Indian Policy.

Case Law:

Mvskoke Law Reporter: The Decisions of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation
Otter Work Creations Press: Tulsa, OK, 2006-- Eight volumes.
Location: MLIC NALC KF8228 .C9 A515 2006

Mashantucket Pequot Reporter
Huntington, NY : Juris Pub., 2002-- Seven volumes.
Location: MLIC NALC KF8228 .P53 A434

Indian Law Reporter
Location: MLIC, Native American Law Center, KF 8201 .A315
[Also listed under Periodical and Looseleaf Publications]
Case summaries are printed, and some opinions are reproduced in full or edited versions depending on importance and content. Information is indexed topically. A table of cases is also provided.

Native American Law Digest
Location: MLIC NALC E93 .N2687
A monthly summary of court and administrative decisions significant to the Native American community.

Indian Claims Commission Decisions
Boulder, Colo.: Native American Rights Fund, 1973?-1981?
Location: MLIC NALC E93 .U5474
"The volumes are exact reproductions of originals provided by the Commission, except where illegible copy has required that certain sections be retyped." Includes Index volume for volumes 1-29.

Index to the Decisions of the Indian Claims Commission, 1946-1973
Location: MLIC NALC E93 .U5474
Also available online: (http://digital.library.okstate.edu/icc/index.html)
A comprehensive index to all the claims and decisions of the ICC through 1973. Two indexes and a Table of Cases assist the user in finding relevant materials. Cases that originated with the ICC and moved to the Court of Claims when the ICC ceased to exist are traced.

Annual Reports Indian Claims Commission
Location: McFarlin Library, Government Documents Collection, Y 3.In 2/6:1

Cases Decided in the United States Court of Claims (Spine Title: Court of Claims Reports), Vol. 1-231 (1863-1982)
Location: MLIC Second Floor FEDERAL
Generally the Court of Claims had jurisdiction to render claims against the United States. However, Indian claims were specifically barred until August 13, 1946. The pre-1946 cases that appear in this reporter were brought on special jurisdictional acts of Congress. Post-1946 claims are reported in this set with decisions on appeals from the Indian Claims Commission (ICC). The Court of Claims was abolished on September 30, 1982. Decisions are continued in the West Group publication, the United States Claims Court Reporter.

United States Claims Court Reporter (1982 - )
Location: MLIC Second Floor FEDERAL
The U.S. Claims Court was created in 1982 and assumed the trial jurisdiction of the abolished Court of Claims.

United States Federal Claims Digest
Location: MLIC Second Floor FEDERAL
Cases decided in the United States Claims Court, and decisions of the United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit and Supreme Court of the United States in review. Cancelled 9/97.

Indian Tribal Claims Decided in the Court of Claims of the United States
Location: MLIC IPC E98.L3 S547 1976
Briefed and compiled to June 30, 1947. 2 volumes.
This set provides assistance in locating pre-1946 Indian claims cases decided in the Court of Claims. It contains the records of 225 petitions and cases brought by Indians to the Court of Claims under special jurisdictional acts. The full decisions of these cases can be found in the above identified reports and in the Federal Supplement and the Federal Reporter.

Executive Actions:

Codification of Presidential Proclamations and Executive Orders
Location: MLIC Ready Ref. AE 2.113

Presidential Proclamations and Executive Order:
(http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/disposition.html)
The Office of the Federal Register presents this online version of the Codification of Presidential Proclamations and Executive Orders, April 13, 1945, through January 20, 1989. The paper version of this publication is out of print, (but is available at the Reference Desk, see above). The Codification provides in one convenient reference source Proclamations and Executive Orders with general applicability and continuing effect. It covers April 13, 1945, through January 20, 1989, spanning the administrations of Harry S. Truman through Ronald Reagan. Researchers may also wish to consult Executive Orders Disposition Tables, beginning with E.O. 10432, January 24, 1953, including title, signature date, Federal Register citation, and detailed history of amendments and revocations. For example, under the Clinton Administration, out of 364 Executive Orders executed, five pertained to Native Americans and they are indexed under that heading (Native Americans).

U.S. Code Congressional and Administrative News (USCCAN)
Location: MLIC Second Floor FEDERAL
Useful for research from 1944 to date. The last volume of each session has a subject index which uses the index terms INDIANS. Older executive proclamations may be found in Kappler's Indian Affairs Law and Treaties referenced elsewhere in this guide.

Attorney General Opinions:

United States Attorney General Official Opinions
(http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/opinionspage.htm)
These opinions are available online beginning with 1992. These may be accessed on LEXIS using the genfed library USAG file or on WESTLAW using USAG as the database. Both services carry opinions beginning in 1791.

Administrative Law:

Federal Regulations
(http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html)
Title 25 of the Code of Federal Regulations is devoted exclusively to Indians, but many other titles include provisions affecting Indians. CFR sections are updated by using the Lists of CFR Parts (or Sections) Affected and the Federal Register. The Mabee Legal Information Center also has older editions of CFR available in print for the past five years and on microfiche/film prior to that.

Decisions of the Interior Board of Indian Appeals
(http://www.ibiadecisions.com/index.html)
This site contains decisions issued by the Interior Board of Indian Appeals (IBIA) from its inception in 1970 through April 13, 2005. This is an unofficial site and is not associated in any way with the Department of the Interior. The site is offered as a public service and will remain on-line until the official website of the Interior Board of Indian Appeals returns.

Interior Board of Land Appeals, Decisions Affecting Indian and Alaska Native Interests December 21, 1992 - February 10, 2005
(http://www.ibiadecisions.com/Ibla/iblaindexes/iblaIndianAbcpt1.html)
This website now includes decisions issued by the Interior Board of Land Appeals (IBLA), beginning with IBLA Volume 125. These decisions are in PDF format and are exactly as furnished to me by the Department of the Interior, except that I have added brief title pages, for the purpose of improving searchability of the decisions.

Gower Federal Service - Miscellaneous Land Decisions Service
Location: MLIC First Floor KF1865.A6 G64
Decisions v. 1970 - 1997, Latest Received: November 28, 2006 (no.T-517)

Microform/fiche Collections:

CIS Index to U.S. Executive Branch Documents, 1789 - 1909: Guide to Documents Listed in Checklist of U.S. Public Documents, 1789-1909, Not Printed in the U.S. Serial Set
Bethesda, MD : Congressional Information Service, 1990-1997.
Location: MLIC Microfiche JK411 .C57 1990, Cabinet 15, Drawer D through Cabinet 16, Drawer C
pt. 1. Commerce and Labor Department; Treasury Department. 5 v. -- pt. 2. War Department. 4 v. -- pt. 3. Interior Department; Interstate Commerce Commission; Justice Department; Labor Department; Library of Congress. 4 v. -- pt. 4. Agriculture Department; American Republics Bureau; Civil Service Commission; District of Columbia; Fish Commission; Freedman's Savings and Trust Co.; Geographic Board; Government Printing Office; General Supply Committee. 4 v. -- pt. 5. Navy Department. 4 v. -- pt. 6. National Academy of Sciences; National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; Post Office Department; President of U.S.; State Department; Smithsonian Institution. 3 v.

Indian Claims Commission, microform
Location: MLIC Microforms E93 .U5474, Cabinet 35, Drawer E & F
Also available online: (http://digital.library.okstate.edu/icc/index.html)
ca. 6,128 microfiches : negative, maps ; 11 x 15 cm. + 1 index (viii, 158 p. ; 24 cm.); 1 index (viii, 102 p. ; 24 cm.); 1 guide (15 p. ; 28 cm.); 10 guides (various pagings ; 28 cm.) Accompanied by guides: Index to the decisions of the Indian Claims Commission / edited by Norman A. Ross (1973); Index to the expert testimony before the Indian Claims Commission / edited by Norman A. Ross (1973); and Ethnogeographical guide to the Indian Claims Commission ([1976]) published by Clearwater Publishing Co.; and 10 unbound guides ([Inventory guide to the microfiche collection:]: Indian Claims Commission) for the: Indian Claims Commission, Decisions, Decisions on appeal, Briefs, Briefs supplements, Testimony, Expert testimony supplement 1-2, Oral transcripts, Oral transcripts supplement, GAO reports & supplement, Legislative history of Claims Commisssion, Docket books, and Journal. Indexes appear on microfiches and in hard copy. [pt.A] Indian Claims Commission; Decisions; Decisions on appeal--[pt.B] Testimony--[pt.C Transcript [pt.D] Briefs--[pt.E] General Service Administration; General Accounting Office--[pt.F] Legislative history of the Indian Claims Commission Act of 1946; Docket books; Journal.

Native American Legal Materials Collection
Location: MLIC Microforms First Floor, E77 .G27 1980f , Cabinet 36, Drawers A-B
The collection is to be used in conjunction with: American Indian Legal Materials : A Union List / Laura N. Gasaway, James L. Hoover, Dorothy M. Warden. Stanfordville, N.Y. : E. M. Coleman, 1980.

Legislative history of the Indian Claims Commission Act of 1946, compiled by Robert W. Barker and Alice Ehrenfeld ; foreward by Omer C. Stewart ; introd. by Margaret H. Pierce.
Location: MLIC Microforms First Floor E98 .C6 B643 1976, Cabinet 36, Drawer B

Indigenous North Americans and Ethnocentrism of the Courts [microform]: A Cross Analysis of American Culture and Law with Canadian Culture and Law
Location: MLIC Microforms First Floor KF8205 .G63 1992, Microfiche located in Cabinet 36, Drawer D

Indian Tribal Codes: a Microfiche Collection of Indian Tribal Law Codes
Ralph W. Johnson, editor ; Richard Davies, associate editor.
Location: MLIC Microforms First Floor, E98 .L34 I518 1988, Cabinet 36, Drawer B
Updates the first edition of Indian tribal codes, a microfiche collection of American Indian tribal codes published in 1981 by the Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library." Appendix A: List of tribal courts.

Online Databases:

WESTLAW has created a Native Americans Law database system that includes federal case law, federal statutes, C.F.R. and Federal Register references, Interior Board of Indian Appeals Decisions, and selected articles from law reviews, texts and bar journals. The following is the trail to follow to access these databases: Directory Location: All Databases > Topical Materials by Area of Practice > Native American Law

LEXIS has databases available that deal with Native Americans and the Law. They can be reached by the following trial: Legal > Area of Law - By Topic > Native American Law

Internet Resources:

Internet resources are being developed that include a variety Native American legal resources. You can find some listed on the University of Tulsa College of Law (Mabee Legal Information Center) web site at: (http://www.law.utulsa.edu/library/research/natam). Here you will find a list of all the pathfinders/research guides that are available at the MLIC. A researcher may want to begin with the general Native American Legal Research Guide and then depending on his/her research needs move on to Native American Legal Web Sites or Indian Gaming Law.

Be careful when using Internet resources:

Here are some guidelines to help evaluate the information you find on the Internet: Make sure that you know who is providing the information. Can the author or webmaster be contacted for clarification? How current is the information? Look for a "Last Updated" date. Is the information complete or edited? Is there enough information on the site so that you can find the original source for comparison purposes?