List of Native American and First Nations law resources

United States

General law resources and databases

• Native American Rights Fund^[1]
• National Indian Law Library^[2]
• Indian Law Resource Center^[3]
• Indian Law Research Guides^[4]
• National Tribal Justice Resource Center^[5]
• Native American Law Research Guide (Georgetown Law Library)^[6]
• Tribal Law Gateway^[7]
• 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)^[8]
• Tribal Law and Policy Institute^[9]
• American Indian Law Resources (Northwestern University)^[10]
• Native American Law Resources (University of Oklahoma)^[11]
• American Indian Law: A Beginner's Guide from the Library of Congress^[12]
• Native American Law Guide: Federal Indian Law and Tribal Law materials (University of California at Los Angeles)^[13]
• Law Library of Congress' Indians of North American Guide^[14]
• Native American civil rights
• National Congress of American Indians^[15]
• Indian Law (Harvard Law Review) (multiple pages of cases)^[16]
• Tribal Access to Justice Information^[17]
• Institute for Native Justice^[17]

Tribal law materials by each individual tribe

• Tribal Law Gateway^[18]
• Indian Law and Order Commission^[19]

Tribal recognition

• Native American Tribal Recognition^[20]

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,^{[21][22][23][24][25][26]}
• Morton v. Mancari^[27][28]
• Native American Tribal Enrollment^[29]
• Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez

Citizenship

• Native American Citizenship^[30]
• The Politics of Inclusion: Indigenous Peoples and U.S. Citizenship, by Rebecca Tsosie (UCLA Law Review)^[31]
• Native American identity in the United States^[32][33]
• Determining Native American and Indigenous Canadian identities (WP:IPNA essay)

Border crossing rights

• Native American Citizenship and Borders^[34]

Land claims

• Indian Claims Commission,^[35] entire 43 volume set of claims decisions from 1946 to 1978 can be found here,^[36] or downloadable here,^[37] or with access to ProQuest here.^[38]
• Indian Trust settlements^[39]

Water and land rights

• Native American Water & Land Rights^[40]
• American Indian Territoriality: An Online Research Guide (downloadable PDF)^[41]
• Indigenous land rights
• Aboriginal title in the United States

Ritual object repatriation

• Reading list on U.S.Tribe relations regarding ritual object repatriation^[42]

Sacred sites and places protection

• Native American Sacred Places research^[43]
• Native American Sacred Sites and the Federal Government^[44]
• Challenges to Sacred Site Protection, by Rebecca Tsosie^[45]
• Old Ground and New Directions at Sacred Sites on the Western Landscape by Kristen A. Carpenter^[46]

Arts and Crafts laws

• Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990^[47]
• Tribal Law and Order Act (2010)^[48]
• Indigenous Intellectual Property^[49]
• Indian arts and crafts laws
• Cherokee Nation Truth in Advertising for Native Art

Peacemaking and conflict resolution

• Indigenous Native American Peacemaking^[50]

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)^[51]

Tribal education

• Tribal Education law^[52]
• Language and Diversity Program, Native Education Program (Southwest)^[53]
• National Indian Education Association^[54]
• Laws pertaining to Indian residential schools

Child welfare

• Child welfare and children's rights^[55]

Identification

• Indigenous identity, being, and belonging^[56]
• Native American identity in the United States
• Warren, Trump, and the Question of Native American Identity, (Harvard Law Review)^[57]
• Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez, 436 U.S. 49 (1978)^[58]

Environment, environmental justice, climate change

• General climate science reports^[59]
• Tribal Climate Change Guide^[60]
• Facing the Storm: Indian Tribes, Climate-Induced Weather Extremes, and the Future for Indian Country (report of the National Wildlife Federation)^[61]
• Environmental Protection in Indian Country (EPA)^[62]

Tribal trademark law

• Tribal Trademark Law^[63]
• 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^[64]
• Alaska Native Justice Center^[17]
• Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians^[65]
• Montana Indian Law^[66]

Canada

Main article: Canadian Indigenous law

General law resources and databases

• Indigenous law/Indigenous legal traditions (University of Victoria)^[67]
• Truth and reconciliation commission of Canada^[68]
• Indigenous law and Aboriginal law (Toronto Metropolitan University)^[69]
• Indigenous peoples and the law (University of Calgary)^[70]
• Aboriginal law and Indigenous law (Queens University)^[71]

Border crossing rights

• Native American Citizenship and Borders^[72]

Identification

• A path through difficult conversations about Indigenous identity, Canadian Bar Association^[73]
• The Population Boom of the Self-Identified Indigenous and our Dwindling Nationhood The Council of Canadians^[74]

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

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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