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Federal Indian Policy

The legal issues surrounding tribal and governmental sovereignty have received new attention in recent years. In addition to land claims and water rights, other issues of concern relate to taxes, alcohol and gun control, Indian gaming, and clashes between tribal government and state government.
 
American Indian Law Deskbook. 3rd Edition. Edited by Conference of Western Attorneys General. Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2004.
*R- RMRR KF8205 A76 2004

Deloria, Vine. The Nations Within: The Past and Future of American Indian Sovereignity. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.  HBC 84-3434
Records issues directly related to tribal sovereignty and its outcomes.

Deloria, Vine, and David E. Wilkins. Tribes, Treaties, and Constitutional Tribulations. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999.  HBC 00-879

Early American Indian Documents: Treaties and Laws, 1607-1789. Edited by Alden T. Vaughan. Washington, D.C.: University Publications of America, 1979- . multi-volume set, in process  HBC 82-1776
Reproduces text and cases studies of colonial era treaties and legislation.

Felix S. Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law. Edited by Rennard Strickland. Charlottesville, VA: The Mitchie Co., 1982.  HBC 84-3864
Edited by a notable Native scholar.

Indian Gaming: Who Wins? Edited by Angela Mullis and David Kamper. Los Angeles: UCLA American Indian Studies Center, 2000.  JFE 01-12731
Treats major issues related to Native adoption of casinos as a tribal funding resource.

McNickle, D’Arcy. Native American Tribalism: Indian Survivals and Renewals. New York; London:  Institute of Race Relations; Oxford University Press, 1973. 
HBC 93-13531
Overview of tribal sovereignty by an important scholar.

A Race at Bay: New York Times Editorials on “the Indian Problem,” 1860 –1900. Compiled by Robert G. Hays. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997.  HBC 98-478
Reproduces primary source material for a period when Native Americans and their place in American society was a hotly disputed topic.

Wunder, John R. “Retained By the People”: A History of American Indians and the Bill of Rights. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.  *R- RMRR F8205 W86 1994