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Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881.
Report to the regents
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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. 2nd Edition. Edited by Conference of Western Attorneys General. Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado, 1998. *R-HBC 98-12287

Churchill, Ward. Struggle for the Land: Indigenous Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide, and Expropriation in Contemporary North America. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1993. HBC 93-2315

Deloria, Vine. American Indian Policy in the Twentieth Century. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985. HBC 86-444

Deloria, Vine. The Nations Within: The Past and Future of American Indian Sovereignty. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984. HBC 84-3434

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

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

French, Laurence. The Winds of Injustice: American Indians and the U.S. Government. New York: Garland Pub., 1994. HBC 95-15021

Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. Edited by Stephan Thernstrom. Essays by Edward Spicer. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1980. Pub. Cat. 81-42

Indian Gaming: Who Wins? Edited by Angela Mullis and David Kamper. Los Angeles: UCLA American Indian Studies Center, 2000. JFE 01-12731

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

Mason, W. Dale. Indian Gaming: Tribal Sovereignty and American Politics. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. HBC 00-6009

O’Brien, Sharon. American Indian Tribal Governments. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989. HBC 90-5015.

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

Wunder, John R. "Retained By the People": A History of American Indians and the Bill of Rights. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. *R-HBC 94-3635

 

Compiled by Paula A. Baxter, 2002