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Helpful Links

American Indian Heritage Foundation
The Web site of the American Indian Heritage Foundation - a nonprofit designed to boost American Indians - primarily contains information about programs and benefits available to American Indians. The site includes a list of all tribes recognized by the U.S. government.
http://www.indians.org/ 

American Indian Legal Resources
This site, maintained by Marilyn K. Nicely of The University of Oklahoma Law Center, contains 17 links. Some of the links are to primary materials such as the Iroquois Constitution; others are to sites providing historical information such as details of U.S. Congressional debates dating back to 1774.
http://www.law.ou.edu/indian/ailegal.html 

ANCSA Resource Center
The law firm Landye Bennett Blumstein LLP maintains the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act Resource Center Web site, which has a wide variety of information relating to the statute. The site contains links to the ANCSA, its amendments, implementing regulations and interpretive case law.
http://www.lbblawyers.com/ancsa.htm 

California Indian Legal Services
The Indian-controlled law firm, California Indian Legal Services, posts its newsletter and other updates about policies affecting California tribes on this Web site. The site also has links to laws, legal organizations such as the American Indian Bar Association, law journals, community resources and links to 32 tribes in California.
http://www.calindian.org/ 

First Perspective Newspaper
The First Perspective's Web site posts news relating to Canada's indigenous population. The newspaper includes reports about court cases and ongoing territory disputes.
http://www.firstperspective.ca/ 

The Fourth World Documentation Project
The Center for World Indigenous Studies publishes the Fourth World Documentation Project, which contains comprehensive documents relating to indigenous cultures. The site includes a searchable database of tribal resolutions, treaties and other documents from all corners of the world.
http://www.cwis.org/ 

Indian Country Today
This Web site of the newspaper Indian Country Today posts news affecting American Indians. The "Eye on the Law" section recaps recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions about issues of importance to Native Americans.
http://indiancountry.com/ 

Indian Law Collection
The University of New Mexico School of Law Library's Web site has a legal research section with links to "American Indian Law."
http://lawschool.unm.edu/library/indian_law/indlaw.html 

Indian Law Resource Center
This policy-oriented site created by the nonprofit advocacy organization the Indian Law Resource Center contains newsletters, commentary and articles related to issues affecting indigenous people.
http://www.indianlaw.org/ 

International Indian Treaty Council (IITC)
The advocacy organization International Indian Treaty Council runs this Web site, which consists of news about upcoming conferences and policy statements promoting the rights of indigenous people.
http://www.treatycouncil.org/ 

Legal Information Institute (LII) Indian Law Overview
Cornell University Law School's Web site contains logically organized links to federal laws, federal court decisions, state court decisions, international conventions and treaties and federal agencies. There is also a brief two-paragraph summary of Indian law in the United States.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/indian.html 

Minnesota American Indian Bar Association (MAIBA)
This Web site of the Minnesota American Indian Bar Association contains news of upcoming events as well as detailed information about 11 tribal courts in Minnesota, including rules of procedure, judges, history and practical advice on how to get admitted. The association's quarterly newsletter containing summaries of court cases is also published on the site, although the most recent was dated spring 2000.
http://www.maiba.org/ 

National Congress of American Indians (NCAI)
This Web site of the National Congress of American Indians contains a wealth of information about tribal self-government and about the impact of federal policies on American Indians. The "issues" area links to a section on "Indian nations and the Supreme Court," which includes synopses and analyses of recent Supreme Court decisions.
http://www.ncai.org/ 

Native American Legal Resources on the Internet
This is a gateway site to other Web sites dealing with all aspects of Native American culture, including history, language, museums and government. There is a "legal" section, which contains links to organizations, other research sites, law journals, law schools that have programs in Indian law and a list of seven legal practices that have a specialty in Indian Law. Source: Karen M. Strom.
http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/ 

Native Americas Journal
This Web site of the Native Americas Journal contains the journal's table of contents as well as brief news stories related to indigenous populations. Source: Press of the American Indian Program at Cornell University.
http://nativeamericas.aip.cornell.edu/Default2.html 

Native American Political Issues (NAPI)
This site contains information about a broad range of socio-political controversies between Native Americans and the U.S. Government. Sections include links to information about the "Coerced Sterilization of Native American Women", elder abuse in Native American communities, and religious freedom in prison. Source: Laura Brooks.
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/9118/ 

Native American Resources
This site is organized into sections on tribes, organizations, education, government, and the arts. Each section contains a large number of links to other Web pages, but the only law-related links are to a handful of government agencies and legal service organizations.
http://www.cowboy.net/native/index.html 

Native American Rights Fund
This site, from the nonprofit advocacy organization Native American Rights Fund, contains detailed information about legal cases it is litigating.
http://www.narf.org/ 

Native American Web
This Washburn University School of Law site contains links to numerous primary materials, including U.S. federal laws and a collection of treaties. There are also links government agencies, libraries, tribes, listservs, national organizations and news relating to American Indians - although there is at least one off-topic link to information about laws of the country of India. Source: Washburn University School of Law.
http://www.washlaw.edu/doclaw/nativ5m.html 

NativeWeb Law & Legal Issues
This exhausting site contains links to the following five sections: Cases and controversies (which contains links to extremely detailed information about lawsuits and other current events related to Native American issues); (2) government documents, including statutes, reports and court decisions; (3) international documents, including historic documents such as Papal Bulls from the Middle Ages; (4) speeches articles and essays; and, (5) a catch-all category with information about issues such as religious freedom and prison rights as well as information about organizations devoted to indigenous issues.
http://www.nativeweb.org/resources/law_legal_issues/ 

Tribal Court Clearinghouse
This extremely comprehensive site published by the Tribal Law and Policy Institute contains exhaustive information about a wide variety of topics relating to Indian law. In addition to sections on existing as well as pending federal laws and court cases, there is also detailed information about narrower legal subjects, such as Indian probate laws and tribal drug court resources. The site also contains a message board where lawyers and non-lawyers can post questions.
http://www.tribal-institute.org/ 

UAA Justice Center: Alaska Natives & First Nations
This page of the University of Alaska Anchorage Justice Center contains links to articles, policy papers and law review articles - such as "Probation Revocation and Ethnicity", an article about issues relevant to the indigenous Alaskan population.
http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/just/rlinks/natives/index.html 

Waseskun House
This Waseskun House site contains a link to legal database - which posts the Canadian constitution, statutes, and court cases related to Canada's indigenous population.
http://www.waseskun.net/law.htm 

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