Related guide
- Native American and Tribal Legal ResourcesFrom usa.gov
Current legislation
- Thomas (Library of Congress)Thomas is a resource to current and historical legislative activity.
- FDsysGPO's Federal Digital System (FDsys) provides public access to Government information submitted by Congress and Federal agencies and preserved as technology changes.
Introduction
The legal resources noted on this page are useful for tracking and understanding historical and current legal issues. Links are provided to many of the legal resources recommended by the Indian National Archives for tribal legal history research.
Executive Orders
- Presidential Documents (American Presidency Project)A link to an extensive collection of presidential papers, speeches and more.
Legislative history
- Executive Orders Relating to Indian Reservations, 1855-1922A selection of executive orders geographically by state location of reservation land affected by an order. An index is provided in the first volume. Includes table of contents. Shelved at Annex, available by recall/request.
- Thomas (Library of Congress)Thomas is a resource to current and historical legislative activity.
Laws
- Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 25: IndiansHoldings at Anschutz and Law libraries
- United States Statutes at LargeThe official and authoritateive source of Indian treaty texts. Indexing is volume by volume. Search by tribal name or the term "Indian treaties". Multiple holdings including Anschutz-reference AE2.111:
Regulations
- Federal RegisterOfficial online daily searchable publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal Agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents.
Opinions & decisions
- United States Supreme CourtUse for finding court cases and opinions.
Treaties
- Kappler's Indian Affairs, Laws, and Treaties5 volume set, Indian treaties in Volume 2. Available at Anschutz I 1.107:
- Documents of American Indian Diplomacy: Treaties, Agreements, and Conventions, 1775-1979Includes all identified treaty texts, whether or not ratified or currently in force as well as the treaties conclueded with Indian tribes by the Republic of Texas and the Confederate States of America and between Indian tribes.
- Felix S. Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian LawContains an annotated table of statutes and treaties which gives citations to the text of laws in the Statutes at Large. Available at Law Library.
