Native American Materials In Law and Genealogy
at the Western Kentucky University Libraries
Compiled by Rosemary Meszaros
Coordinator, Government Documents & Law
July, 2003; Rev. December, 2007
Legal
Materials
Indian Tribal Codes and Statutes at Large
Indian
Tribal Codes
From the National Tribal Justice Resource Center
http://www.tribalresourcecenter.org/tribalcourts/codes/default.asp
U.
S. Statutes at Large
(Federal laws as they looked on the day they became law, regardless
of whether they are currently in effect)
Law Library
U.
S. Code Annotated
(Federal law as it exists today, regardless of when individual laws
were passed)
Law Library
Legislation
Handbook
of Federal Indian Law: With Reference Tables and Index.
Felix S. Cohen; foreword by Harold L. Ickes; introduction by Nathan
R. Margold.
(Also known as “Cohen’s”)
Reference (non-circulating)
KF
8205.C64x 1988
Charters,
Constitutions and Bylaws of the Indian Tribes of North America
Compiled by George Emory Fay.
Greeley, Museum of Anthropology, Colorado State College, 1967-
Library has pt. 1, 2, 2a, 3-7, 11, 12.
Main Library
E
94 .F3
Indian
Reorganization Act Era Constitutions and Charters
Available online from the University of Oklahoma Law Library
See: http://thorpe.ou.edu/IRA.html
Law
Reviews and Periodicals
See
Lexis-Nexis Academic database at
http://www.wku.edu/library/deansoffice/online.htm
Treaties
American
Indian Treaties: The History of a Political Anomaly.
Francis Paul Prucha
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Main Library
KF
8205.P75 1994
Documents
of American Indian Diplomacy: Treaties, Agreements, and Conventions,
1775-1979.
Compiled by Vine Deloria, Jr. and Raymond J. DeMallie with a foreword
by Daniel K. Inouye.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c1999
Main Library
KF
8202 1999
Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, 1778-1883
Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler. With a new foreword by
Brantley Blue.
New York, Interland Pub., 1972. Reprint of Indian affairs: laws
and treaties, v.2, published in 1904 by Govt. Printing Office, Washington.
Reference
KF
8203 1972b
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/
Indian
Land Cessions in the United States, 1784-1894
(From the United States Serial Set Number 4015)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwss-ilc.html
Treaties between the United States of America and the
Several Indian Tribes, from 1778 to 1837: with a Copious Table of
Contents.
Compiled and printed by the direction, and under the supervision,
of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Washington, D. C.: Langtree and O'Sullivan 1837.
Kentucky Library (Non-Circulating)
E
95.U6 1837
Treaties
and agreements of the Indian tribes of . . .
(Part of the American Indian Treaty Series)
Washington: The Institute for the Development of Indian Law, [1974]
Volumes: Ojibwa Indians; Chippewa Indians; Eastern Oklahoma Indians;
Five Civilized Tribes; Indian Tribes of the Great Lakes region;
Indian Tribes of the Northern Plains; Indian Tribes of the Pacific
Northwest; Indian Tribes of the Southwest (including Western Oklahoma).
KF
8202 1974x
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
Encyclopedia
of North American Indians
Edited by Frederick E. Hoxie.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, c1996.
Reference (Non-Circulating)
E
76.2 .E53 1996
Native
America in the Twentieth Century: An Encyclopedia.
Edited by Mary B. Davis.
New York: Garland Pub., 1994.
Reference (Non-Circulating)
E
76.2 /N36 1994
Reference
Encyclopedia of the American Indian, 5th ed.
Edited by Barry T. Klein.
West Nyack, N.Y. : Todd Publications, c1990
Reference (Non-Circulating)
E
76.2.K58 1990x
General
American
Indian Law in a Nutshell.
Edited by William C. Canby, Jr.
St. Paul, Minn.: West Pub. Co., 1981.
Main Library
KF8205 .Z9 C36
American
State Papers in Congressional Serial Set (in microcard)
(Cannot be copied)
Government Documents area
Guide
to American Indian Documents in the Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1899:
A Project of the Institute for the Development of Indian Law.
Steven L. Johnson
New York: Clearwater Pub. Co., 1977
Reference (non-circulating)
KF 820.1 A1 J63
Handbook
of North American Indians.
General Editor William C. Sturtevant
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1978-
Reference (Non-Circulating)
E 77.H25
(Review from web site)
“A 20-volume encyclopedia summarizing knowledge about all
Native peoples north of
Mesoamerica, including cultures, languages, history, prehistory,
and human biology…. Heavily illustrated, extensive bibliographies,
well indexed.” Currently only the following volumes have been
completed and published. All are in the Reference collection.
- Volume
4 - History of Indian-White Relations, 1988. Wilcomb E. Washburn,
Vol. Ed.
- Volume
5 - Arctic, 1984. David Damas, Vol. Ed.
- Volume
6 - Subarctic, 1981. June Helm, Vol. Ed.
- Volume
7 – Northwest Coast, 1990. Wayne Suttles, Vol. Ed.
- Volume
8 – California, 1978. Robert F. Heizer, Vol. Ed.
- Volume
9 – Southwest, 1979. Alfonso Ortiz, Vol. Ed.
- Volume
10 – Southwest, 1983. Alfonso Ortiz, Vol. Ed.
- Volume
11 – Great Basin, 1986. Warren L. d'Azevedo, Vol. Ed.
- Volume
12 – Plateau, 1998. Deward E. Walker, Jr., Vol. Ed.
- Volume
13 – Plains, 2001. Raymond J. DeMallie, Vol. Ed.
- Volume
15 – Northeast, 1978. Bruce G. Trigger, Vol. Ed.
- Volume
17 - Languages, 1996. Ives Goddard, Vol. Ed.
A
History of Indian Policy.
S. Lyman Tyler
Washington: Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1973
Government Federal
I 20.2: H 62
Indians
of North America: Methods and Sources for Library Research.
Compiled by Marilyn L. Haas
Hamden, CT: Library Professional Publications, 1983.
Reference (Non-Circulating)
Z 1209 .H22 1983
Indians
of North America video collection.
Bala Cynwyd, PA: Schlessinger Video Productions, c1993.
Ed Center Video
A History of Native Americans: XVR 0139
– Apache: XVR 0140
– Aztec: XVR 0141
– Cherokee: XVR 0142
– Cheyenne: XVR 0143
– Chinook: XVR 0144
– Comanche: XVR 0145
– Creek: XVR 0146
– Crow: XVR 0147
– Huron: XVR 0148
– Iroquois: XVR 0149
– Lenape: XVR 0150
– Maya: XVR 0151
– Menominee: XVR 0152
– Narragansett: XVR 0153
– Navajo: XVR 0154
– Potawatomi: XVR 0155
– Seminole: XVR 0156
– Yankton Sioux: XVR 0157
Smithsonian
Institution Annual Report
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office,
1846-
Government Federal
SI 1.1:
The
Territorial Papers of the United States.
Clarence Edwin Carter, ed.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1934- [New York, AMS Press,
1972--
Kentucky Library (non-circulating)
E 173.C32
Genealogy
Dawes
Roll "plus" of Cherokee Nation "1898"
1898 Dawes Roll "plus" = the 1898 Dawes Roll plus Guion
Miller Roll information for those that were on both rolls.
Compiled by Bob Blankenship.
[Cherokee, N.C.?] : Cherokee Roots Publication, 1994
Kentucky Library (Non-Circulating)
The
USGenWeb Census Project - http://www.usgenweb.org/
At various stages of completion, this project relies on volunteers
to input Census information onto a web site.
Native American site: http://www.us-census.org/native/enumerations.html
How Do I Trace Indian Ancestry?- http://www.doi.gov/ancestry.html
From the Bureau of Indian Affairs, U. S. Department of the Interior.
Web
Sites
American
Indian Collection of web sites at Tulsa City-County Library
http://www.tulsalibrary.org/airc/
American
Indians of the Pacific Northwest Digital Project
From the University of Washington Libraries
http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/
Canadian First Nations Treaty Map Index
http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maps/cantreat.html
Guide
to Law Online: Native American Peoples
Law Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/usnative.html
Indian
and Native Peoples Legal Resources
From FindLaw
http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/21indian/
Indian
Law Resource Center
http://www.indianlaw.org/
(Program review taken from web site)
"At the Indian Law Resource Center, we have developed a program
of work over twenty years that is aimed at meeting the needs of
indigenous peoples who are struggling to overcome the devastating
problems that threaten Native peoples. Through our program work,
the Center seeks to advance the rule of law, by establish national
and international legal standards that preserve indigenous human
rights and dignity, and to challenge the governments of the world
to equally esteem all human beings."
Indian
Treaties – Washington State
From USGenWeb Archives
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/wa/indians/treaties.htm
Indian
Trust: Cobell v. Norton
http://www.indiantrust.com/index.cfm
(Excerpt from case overview taken from web site)
"Cobell v. Norton is a class-action lawsuit filed on June 10,
1996, in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. to force the federal
government to account for billions of dollars belonging to approximately
500,000 American Indians and their heirs, and held in trust
since the late 19th century."
National
Native American Bar Association
http://www.nativeamericanbar.org/links.html
Native American Indian Cultures from Mexico and South America
From Hands Around the World
http://indian-cultures.com/
Native
American Law Pathfinder
From University of Tulsa Law Library
http://www.law.utulsa.edu:8080/library/research/pathfinders/natam
Native
American Law
From MegaLaw.com
http://www.megalaw.com/top/native.php
Native
American Legal Material Microfiche Collection
From Washburn University School of Law
http://washburnlaw.edu/library/collections/nalm/
Native
American Legal Resources
From University of Oklahoma Law Library
http://www.law.ou.edu/indian/
Northeastern
State University Library, Tahlequah, OK
http://library.nsuok.edu/Spc/index.html
U. S. Bureau of Indian Affairs
U. S. Department of the Interior
http://www.doi.gov/bureau-indian-affairs.html
Includes link to tracing Indian Ancestry: http://www.doi.gov/ancestry.html
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