Native American Studies - Law & Government: Important Web Sites

Part of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University. Includes links to US Code, Supreme Court decisions, etc.

"housed within the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Through applied research and service, the Harvard Project aims to understand and foster the conditions under which sustained, self-determined social and economic development is achieved among American Indian nations."

"founded in 1944 in response to termination and assimilation policies that the United States forced upon the tribal governments in contradiction of their treaty rights and status as sovereigns. NCAI stressed the need for unity and cooperation among tribal governments for the protection of their treaty and sovereign rights. Since 1944, the National Congress of American Indians has been working to inform the public and Congress on the governmental rights of American Indians and Alaska Natives. "

Part of the Native American Rights Fund. Browse site and search library catalog to identify a large number of tribal docs.

Links to some tribal codes, Cohen's Handbook, tribal constitutions, and more.

A project of the Tribal Law & Policy Institute. News & links to Tribal, State & Federal documents

Info page for researching Native American records

Warning: there is a significant gap in the document archive due to the site's 2002-2008 suspension, ordered as part of the Cobell v. Slazar class-action lawsuit.

You can view the front page of some earlier iterations of the site courtesy of the Internet Archive's "Wayback Machine".
The site migrated to http://www.bia.gov/ in 2010.
[Note -- expect many dead links from these earlier pages.]