| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Áquila Mazzinghy Alvarenga |
Who Cares about the Rights of Indigenous Children? Infanticide in Brazilian Indian Tribes |
22 Hastings Women's Law Journal 17 (Winter 2011) |
International law entitles indigenous peoples to a full range of human rights. Nevertheless, in many parts of the world, [they] suffer from a history of discrimination and exclusion that has left them on the margins of the larger societies in which they exist. For this reason, they face great difficulties in maintaining and developing their own... |
2011 |
| Bethany R. Berger |
Williams V. Lee and the Debate over Indian Equality |
109 Michigan Law Review 1463 (June, 2011) |
Williams v. Lee (1959) created a bridge between century-old affirmations of the immunity of Indian territories from state jurisdiction and the tribal self-determination policy of the twentieth century. It has been called the first case in the modern era of federal Indian law. Although no one has written a history of the case, it is generally... |
2011 |
| Robert F. Castro |
Xenomorph!! |
46 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review Rev. 1 (2011) |
The national debate over illegal immigration has been dramatically altered since 9/11. In his book The Latino Threat, Leo R. Chavez argues that Latina/o immigrants--including those U.S. populations that physically resemble them-- have been socially constructed as grave risks to the United States. Arizona Senate Bill 1070 (hereinafter S.B. 1070)... |
2011 |
| Vickie Enis |
Yours, Mine, Ours? Renovating the Antiquated Apartheid in the Law of Property Division in Native American Divorce |
35 American Indian Law Review 661 (2010-2011) |
In an ideal world, one marries for love. In reality, however, marriage is often inspired by other motivations. The attractive young woman marrying the wealthy, established, older man is an image with which we are all too familiar. But an image not typically evoked by the mention of the word gold-digger is a non-Indian marrying an Indian to gain... |
2011 |
| Matthew L.M. Fletcher |
2010 Dillon Lecture: Rebooting Indian Law in the Supreme Court |
55 South Dakota Law Review 510 (2010) |
Aanii. It is an honor to deliver the 2010 lecture in honor of South Dakota Supreme Court Associate Justice Charles Hall Dillon. Justice Dillon, I was pleased to discover, delivered an important dissent in an American Indian law case in 1924, Dakota Life Insurance Co. v. Morgan. The majority had reversed a trial court decision affirming a life... |
2010 |
| Lawrence R. Baca |
35 Years of the Fba Indian Law Conference |
57-APR Federal Lawyer Law. 3 (March/April, 2010) |
In April 1976, the Federal Bar Association held its first conference on Indian law in Phoenix, Ariz. This year the Indian Law Section is celebrating the 35th anniversary of the conference. The program planners have compiled a fairly complete list of the conference chairs and topics for all the past programs, which is found in this issue, but it is... |
2010 |
| YANG, Chih-Chieh |
A Comparative Study of the Models Employed to Protect Indigenous Traditional Cultural Expressions |
11 Asian-Pacific Law and Policy Journal 49 (2010) |
I. Introduction. 50 II. Models for Protecting Traditional Cultural Expressions. 51 A. The Public Domain Model. 52 B. The Customary Law Model. 53 1. Customary Protocols Regarding Traditional Design, Music and Dance in North America. 53 2. Customary Law Regarding Traditional Symbols and Art in Australia. 54 3. 54 C. The Authentication Model.... |
2010 |
| Angelique EagleWoman , Wambdi A. WasteWin |
A Constitutional Crisis When the U.s. Supreme Court Acts in a Legislative Manner? An Essay Offering a Perspective on Judicial Activism in Federal Indian Law and Federal Civil Procedure Pleading Standards |
114 Penn State Law Review Penn Statim 41 (7/9/2010) |
The United States Supreme Court is one of the three branches of federal government in the U.S. governmental system of checks and balances. The primary purpose of the Court is to resolve live controversies as final arbiter on the interpretation of the U.S. Constitution and the federal legislation implementing that foundational document. For scholars... |
2010 |
| Brian L. Lewis |
A Day Late and a Dollar Short: Section 2719 of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, the Interpretation of its Exceptions and the Part 292 Regulations |
12 Thomas M. Cooley Journal of Practical and Clinical Law 147 (Hilary Term 2010) |
Congress enacted the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) in 1988. The IGRA does not affect the Secretary of the Interior's (Secretary) authority to take land into trust for tribes. Section 2719 of the IGRA is a land use limitation that prohibits tribes from conducting gaming on lands they didn't possess in 1988. However, § 2719 of the IGRA... |
2010 |
| Jennifer Lynn Zweig |
A Globally Sustainable Right to Land: Utilizing Real Property to Protect the Traditional Knowledge of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities |
38 Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law 769 (2010) |
Treat the earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. -Indian Proverb Humans are interconnected with each other and the environment. Like a chain, when one link is lost the individual links can no longer function as a collective. In this way, the world may be considered the collective, unable to... |
2010 |
| David Urteago |
A Mighty Pulverizing Engine? The American Indian Probate Reform Act and the Struggle for Group Rights |
2 Estate Planning & Community Property Law Journal 463 (Spring, 2010) |
[T]he time has arrived when we should definitely make up our minds to recognize the Indian as an individual and not as a member of a tribe. The General Allotment Act is a mighty pulverizing engine to break up the tribal mass [acting] directly upon the family and the individual . . . . -Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. President, First Annual Message (Dec.... |
2010 |
| Uilisone Falemanu Tua |
A Native's Call for Justice: the Call for the Establishment of a Federal District Court in American Samoa |
11 Asian-Pacific Law and Policy Journal 246 (2010) |
I. Introduction. 247 II. Congress Created Federal District Courts Pursuant to Article III of the U.S. Constitution. 252 A. Congress Has Plenary Power over the Territories under Article IV of the U.S. Constitution and Can Create Territorial Courts under Such Authority. 253 B. Territorial Federal District Courts Exist in Every Territory Except... |
2010 |
| Kyle Persaud |
A Permit to Practice Religion for Some but Not for Others: How the Federal Government Violates Religious Freedom When it Grants Eagle Feathers Only to Indian Tribe Members |
36 Ohio Northern University Law Review 115 (2010) |
On June 27, 2008, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling on a controversy that has divided federal appellate courts for the past seven years: whether individuals, who are not members of Indian tribes, may possess eagle feathers for use in religious observances. Mario Vasquez-Ramos and Luis Rodriguez-Martinez were leaders in their Native... |
2010 |
| Cassandra Barnum |
A Single Penny, an Inch of Land, or an Ounce of Sovereignty: the Problem of Tribal Sovereignty and Water Quality Regulation under the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act |
37 Ecology Law Quarterly 1159 (2010) |
This Note has three goals: to describe the Environmental Protection Agency's 2003 delegation of National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permitting authority to the State of Maine under the Clean Water Act, to critique the Agency's decision based on principles of federal Indian law, and to propose solutions to the resultant problems faced by... |
2010 |
| Samantha A. Moppett |
ACKNOWLEDGING AMERICA'S FIRST SOVEREIGN: INCORPORATING TRIBAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS INTO THE LEGAL RESEARCH AND WRITING CURRICULUM |
35 Oklahoma City University Law Review 267 (Summer 2010) |
Marie Setian (Marie) drove to Foxwoods Resort Casino in Ledyard, Connecticut, with her husband and another couple for a day of gambling, dining, and entertainment. After gambling for a little while, the couples went to the Festival Buffet. At the buffet's seafood station, Marie placed some shrimp on her plate. As she walked to the international... |
2010 |
| Taylor Reinhard |
Advancing Tribal Law Through "Treatment as a State" under the Obama Administration: American Indians May Also Find Help from Their Legal Relative, Louisiana--no Blood Quantum Necessary |
23 Tulane Environmental Law Journal 537 (Summer 2010) |
I. Introduction. 538 II. Background. 540 A. Tribal Sovereignty and the Federal Government's Fiduciary Duty as Trustee. 540 B. Treatment in the Same Manner as a State Really Means Treating Tribes as States. 541 C. Courts Carefully Lengthen the Arm of Tribal Jurisdiction under the TAS Doctrine. 542 III. American Indian Legal Systems: New Growth on... |
2010 |
| Kevin K. Washburn |
Agency Conflict and Culture: Federal Implementation of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act by the National Indian Gaming Commission, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Department of Justice |
42 Arizona State Law Journal 303 (Spring 2010) |
The so-called Founding Fathers, the men who came together to draft the United States Constitution, believed in divided government and the dispersion of governmental power among competing institutions. They believed that a system of separation of powers and checks and balances could prevent the aggregation of power in a single decision-maker who... |
2010 |
| Ezra Rosser |
Ahistorical Indians and Reservation Resources |
40 Environmental Law 437 (Spring 2010) |
This Article is an in-depth exploration of the impacts of an Indian tribe deciding to pursue environmentally destructive forms of economic development. The Article makes two principal contributions. First, it establishes the Navajo Nation's decision-making role. Prior mineral resource forms of development may have been formally approved by the... |
2010 |
| Amber Crossman Cheng |
All in the Same Boat? Indigenous Property Rights in Underwater Cultural Heritage |
32 Houston Journal of International Law 695 (Summer 2010) |
I. INTRODUCTION. 696 II. ORIGINS OF THE BLACK SWAN TREASURE. 698 A. History of the Black Swan. 698 B. Claims to the Black Swan Treasure. 699 C. Indigenous Peoples' Relationship to Mining in Peru. 702 III. EXISTING TREATMENT OF UNDERWATER CULTURAL HERITAGE IN INTERNATIONAL LAW. 707 A. Maintaining the Status Quo: The U.N. Convention on the Law of the... |
2010 |
| Elizabeth Ann Kronk |
Alternative Energy Development in Indian Country: Lighting the Way for the Seventh Generation |
46 Idaho Law Review 449 (2010) |
Indigenous Peoples are like the miner's canary, when their cultures and languages disappear this reflects the profound sickness in the ecology. C1-2TABLE OF CONTENTS I. THE STATUS QUO. 450 II. INCREASING INTEREST IN ALTERNATIVE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT IN INDIAN COUNTRY. 455 A. Native Communities Are Uniquely Impacted by Climate Change, Creating... |
2010 |
| Theodore Macdonald |
Amazonian Indigenous Views on the State: a Place for Corporate Social Responsibility? |
33 Suffolk Transnational Law Review 439 (Symposium 2010) |
Shortly after dinner on November 16, 1532, Father Vicente de Valverde, chaplain to Francisco de Pizzaro, explained to their Inca host Atahualpa that he must pay tribute in gold and silver to God, through King Charles IV of Spain. The Inca responded to this circuitous logic with a series of well-reasoned questions. Instead of answering, the Spanish... |
2010 |
| Robert J. Miller |
American Indian and Tribal Intellectual Property Rights |
13 Tulane Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property 179 (Fall 2010) |
I. Introduction. 179 II. Indian Arts and Crafts Act. 180 III. Protection of Tribal and Individual Names. 181 IV. U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. 182 V. Future Issues. 183 |
2010 |
| Robert J. Miller |
AMERICAN INDIAN AND TRIBAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS |
13 Tulane Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property 179 (Fall 2010) |
I. Introduction. 179 II. Indian Arts and Crafts Act. 180 III. Protection of Tribal and Individual Names. 181 IV. U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. 182 V. Future Issues. 183 |
2010 |
| Margaret P. Moss |
American Indian Health Disparities: by the Sufferance of Congress? |
32 Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy 59 (Fall 2010) |
The sovereignty that the Indian tribes retain is of a unique and limited character. It exists only at the sufferance of Congress and is subject to complete defeasance. A seminal question for consideration in American Indian health is: To what extent has the unique political history of American Indians played a part in their health status as... |
2010 |
| Helaman S. Hancock |
America's War on Tribal Economies: Federal Attacks on Native Contracting in the Sba 8(a) Business Development Program |
49 Washburn Law Journal 717 (Spring 2010) |
History has taught us that once something is identified as being valuable to Native Americans, the federal government tries to take it away. Congress and the executive branch have enacted laws, adopted policies, and declared war on America's Native Peoples to accomplish such deprivations. The United States broke numerous treaties and diplomatic... |
2010 |
| Ethan Davis |
An Administrative Trail of Tears: Indian Removal |
50 American Journal of Legal History 49 (January, 2008-2010) |
In the early nineteenth century, the federal government uprooted the so-called five Civilized Tribes of the South and sent them westward to modem day Oklahoma. This article rediscovers the long-forgotten administrative system that guided the removal of one of those tribes: the Choctaws. Because judicial review was non-existent, control of the... |
2010 |
| David Fautsch |
An Analysis of Article 28 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and Proposals for Reform |
31 Michigan Journal of International Law 449 (Winter 2010) |
Introduction. 450 I. Article 28 in the Courts: A Theoretical Analysis. 454 A. Repeat Players and One-Shotters. 454 B. Article 28 Is Susceptible to Abuse. 457 II. Problems with Implementation and Enforcement of Judgments: Examples from South Africa and Nicaragua. 459 A. South Africa. 460 1. The Richtersveld Case. 460 2. Land Rights in the Wake of... |
2010 |
| Richael Faithful |
An Idea of American Indian Land Justice: Examining Native Land Liberation in the New Progressive Era |
67 National Lawyers Guild Review 193 (Winter, 2010) |
In the Tewa tribal tradition there is a story that explains how the Tewa People found themselves in San Juan, California. It begins with a Great Drought. The fish people were responsible for offering prayers to the Great Spirit, so they assembled to fast, pray, and sacrifice in a secluded kiva until the rain came as was custom. A woman named... |
2010 |
| Ruslan Garipov |
An Introduction to Native America: the Experience of a Russian Lawyer |
86 North Dakota Law Review 197 (2010) |
I am convinced that those societies (as the Indians) which live without government enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under the European governments. -- Thomas Jefferson This article reports on the six months I spent in the United States with the Fulbright Program. I was involved with many... |
2010 |
| Thomas W. Christie |
An Introduction to the Federal Tort Claims Act in Indian Self-determination Act Contracting |
71 Montana Law Review 115 (Winter 2010) |
Barack Obama began his presidency by reminding Americans that we are in a new era of responsibility. For Indian Country, the word responsibility is often understood in terms of the Federal Trust Responsibility--that is, the obligation of the trustee, the United States, to its beneficiary, the tribes. The concept of a trust responsibility has... |
2010 |
| Andrew G. Hill |
Another Blow to Tribal Sovereignty: a Look at Cross-jurisdictional Law-enforcement Agreements Between Indian Tribes and Local Communities |
34 American Indian Law Review 291 (2009-2010) |
Perhaps the most basic principle of all Indian law, supported by a host of decisions, is that those powers lawfully vested in an Indian nation are not, in general, delegated powers granted by express acts of Congress, but rather inherent powers of a limited sovereignty which has never been extinguished. The keystone of Indian tribes has long been... |
2010 |
| Andrew G. Hill |
ANOTHER BLOW TO TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY: A LOOK AT CROSS-JURISDICTIONAL LAW-ENFORCEMENT AGREEMENTS BETWEEN INDIAN TRIBES AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES |
34 American Indian Law Review 291 (2009-2010) |
Perhaps the most basic principle of all Indian law, supported by a host of decisions, is that those powers lawfully vested in an Indian nation are not, in general, delegated powers granted by express acts of Congress, but rather inherent powers of a limited sovereignty which has never been extinguished. The keystone of Indian tribes has long been... |
2010 |
| J. Gordon Hylton |
Before the Redskins Were the Redskins: the Use of Native American Team Names in the Formative Era of American Sports, 1857-1933 |
86 North Dakota Law Review 879 (2010) |
I. INTRODUCTION. 879 II. CURRENT SENTIMENT. 881 III. A BRIEF HISTORY OF NATIVE AMERICAN TEAM NAMES. 886 IV. THE FIRST USAGES OF NATIVE AMERICAN TEAM NAMES IN AMERICAN SPORT. 890 A. Native American Team Names in Early Baseball. 891 B. Native American Teams Names in Early Professional Baseball. 894 C. Native American Team Names in College Sport. 900... |
2010 |
| The Honorable Korey Wahwassuck, The Honorable John P. Smith, The Honorable John R. Hawkinson |
BUILDING A LEGACY OF HOPE: PERSPECTIVES ON JOINT TRIBAL-STATE JURISDICTION |
36 William Mitchell Law Review 859 (2010) |
I. Sowing Seeds Of Hope--Synopsis. 860 II. Necessity: The Mother Of Invention--Background. 861 III. Changing Attitudes, Creating Believers--Overcoming Obstacles. 867 IV. The Roots Of Joint Jurisdiction--Historical Analysis. 874 V. The Fruits Of Change--Benefits of Joint Jurisdiction. 887 VI. Looking Forward--Conclusion. 896 |
2010 |
| Scott Grinsell |
Caste and the Problem of Social Reform in Indian Equality Law |
35 Yale Journal of International Law 199 (Winter 2010) |
I. Introduction. 199 II. The History of the Caste System and Reservation Policy. 203 A. The History and Structure of the Caste System. 203 B. Caste and the Indian Constitution. 205 III. Caste and Constitutional Aspiration. 208 A. N.M. Thomas and the Constitutional Concept of Equality. 209 B. Indra Sawhney and the Return to Localism. 212 IV. Caste... |
2010 |
| Bethany C. Sullivan |
Changing Winds: Reconfiguring the Legal Framework for Renewable-energy Development in Indian Country |
52 Arizona Law Review 823 (Fall 2010) |
Renewable energy is undoubtedly one of today's hot topics, often discussed hand-in-hand with climate change, environmental policy, and international affairs. Yet one aspect of renewable energy that frequently goes unnoticed is its role in the American Indian community. Tribal officials are increasingly focused on renewable-energy projects as a... |
2010 |
| Rosemary Simota Thompson |
Chicago's Native Son |
24-SEP CBA Record 30 (September, 2010) |
In terms of Supreme Court tenure, John Paul Stevens is second only to William O. Douglas in modern legal history. In 1975, when Justice Stevens was sworn in, men's bow ties were not high fashion. Back then, there was no such thing as the Internet; the Beatles were all still alive; and TV meant less than a dozen channels. Now, the only constant is... |
2010 |
| Peter d'Errico, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
Christian W. Mcmillen. Making Indian Law: the Hualapai Land Case and the Birth of Ethnohistory. New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 2007. 304 Pp. $40.00 (Cloth); $25.00 (Paper). |
50 American Journal of Legal History 224 (April, 2008-2010) |
This is a good book, but very dangerous. McMillen's thorough research into the history of a significant case in federal Indian law probes deeply the activity preceding and accompanying the litigation of Hualapai land rights in the first half of the 20th century. He pays close attention to bureaucratic processes in the Departments of Justice and... |
2010 |
| Marren Sanders |
Clean Water in Indian Country: the Risks (And Rewards) of Being Treated in the Same Manner as a State |
36 William Mitchell Law Review 533 (2010) |
I. Introduction. 534 II. The Clean Water Act. 535 A. Background. 535 B. Treatment as a State Provision. 537 C. Devolution, Delegation, or Something Else Entirely?. 540 D. The Bane of Jurisdiction. 542 E. The Wisconsin Debacle. 545 III. More Risk Than Reward?. 547 A. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?. 549 B. Federal Core Standards. 550 C. The Oklahoma... |
2010 |
| C. Scott Pryor |
Clear Rules Still Produce Fuzzy Results: Impossibility in Indian Contract Law |
27 Arizona Journal of International & Comparative Law L. 1 (Spring, 2010) |
Robert Scott and others have forcefully argued that the justification for commercial statute-drafting is efficiency. Because commercial parties can draft their own contracts, legislatures should draft default rules, he argues, only when it will save commercial parties time and money. This can be called the efficiency goal. Greater efficiency is... |
2010 |
| Melanie Riccobene Jarboe |
Collective Rights to Indigenous Land in Carcieri V. Salazar |
30 Boston College Third World Law Journal 395 (Spring, 2010) |
Since settlers set foot in the Americas, tension has existed between American Indian tribes and European settlers over tribal rights to land. When the Narragansett Tribe of Rhode Island proposed to build low-income housing on a thirty-one acre parcel of land, it became involved in years of litigation with the State of Rhode Island, its... |
2010 |
| Adam Walczak |
Coming to the Table: Why Corporations Should Advocate for Legal Norms for the Protection of Indigenous Rights |
42 George Washington International Law Review 623 (2010) |
The Baka and Bakola, widely considered to be the original inhabitants of the rainforest of Cameroon, have no legal right to their traditional lands because the government of Cameroon views their subsistence hunting and gathering to be backward in comparison to timber extraction. These indigenous peoples may be dispossessed of their traditional... |
2010 |
| Kirsty Gover |
COMPARATIVE TRIBAL CONSTITUTIONALISM: MEMBERSHIP GOVERNANCE IN AUSTRALIA, CANADA, NEW ZEALAND, AND THE UNITED STATES |
35 Law and Social Inquiry 689 (Summer, 2010) |
In the self-governance era of indigenous-state relations, there is a growing interest in the first-order question of tribal governance: who are the members of recognized tribes, and how are they chosen? Tribal constitutions contain formal tribal membership criteria but are not ordinarily in the public domain. This article presents findings from a... |
2010 |
| Tim Pleasant, Deena DeGenova, Concord Law School |
Conference of Western Attorneys General. American Indian Law Deskbook. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2008. 789 Pp. $85.00 (Cloth) |
50 American Journal of Legal History 108 (January, 2008-2010) |
The American Indian Law Deskbook is the fourth edition of a collaborative effort of the Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG). But don't let the word deskbook in the title fool you. As acknowledged by CWAG in the foreword, this project was intended to be a comprehensive and objective treatise covering the whole spectrum of Indian... |
2010 |
| Michael A. Schillaci, Wendy J. Bustard, University of Toronto Scarborough, Chaco Culture National Historical Park |
Controversy and Conflict: Nagpra and the Role of Biological Anthropology in Determining Cultural Affiliation |
33 PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 352 (November, 2010) |
The primary focus of this article is to examine the concept of cultural affiliation from the perspective of biological anthropology. The concept of cultural affiliation is fundamental to federal repatriation legislation including the Native American Graves and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). Biological anthropologists are frequently called upon to... |
2010 |
| Lauren Winter |
Cultivating Farmers' Rights: Reconciling Food Security, Indigenous Agriculture, and Trips |
43 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 223 (January, 2010) |
This Note discusses strategies for cultivating Farmers' Rights internationally. The rise of international treaties awarding intellectual property rights in plant genetic resources to plant breeders brought with it an erosion of agricultural biodiversity as well indigenous farmer lifestyles. Farmers' Rights emerged in recognition of the role of... |
2010 |
| Angelique EagleWoman , Wambdi A. Wastewin |
Cultural and Economic Self-determination for Tribal Peoples in the United States Supported by the Un Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples |
28 Pace Environmental Law Review 357 (Fall 2010) |
Owasin cantewasteya nape ciyuzapi ye! Today, I am speaking as a law professor on Cultural and Economic Self-Determination for Indigenous peoples. As a law professor trained in the legal system developed in the United States from the Anglo tradition, it seems starkly apparent that legal trickery has been used against Indigenous peoples in the... |
2010 |
| Marcia A. Zug |
Dangerous Gamble: Child Support, Casino Dividends, and the Fate of the Indian Family |
36 William Mitchell Law Review 738 (2010) |
I. Introduction. 739 II. The Role of Children's Income on Child Support. 744 A. Duty of Child Support. 748 B. Case Law Concerning Children's Income. 749 C. The Hoak Case. 750 D. Policy Concerns. 753 E. The History of Parental Financial Exploitation. 755 III. The Cypress Difference. 757 A. The Indian Difference. 758 B. The Role of the Indian Family... |
2010 |
| Joan S. Howland, University of Minnesota |
Deborah A. Rosen. American Indians and State Law: Sovereignty, Race, and Citizenship. 1790-1880. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. 360 Pp. $55.00 (Cloth); $29.95 (Paper) |
50 American Journal of Legal History 350 (July, 2008-2010) |
Despite the complexities of American Indian history and American Indian law, much recent scholarship on these interrelated topics has been relatively narrow and predictable. American Indian history is usually analyzed in a chronological manner with an obligatory nod towards themes such as wary cooperation. extermination, isolation, assimilation,... |
2010 |
| Brian L. Pierson |
Developing Affordable Housing in Indian Country |
19-SUM Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 367 (Spring/Summer, 2010) |
Indian country suffers from a chronic shortage of decent, safe, and affordable housing. In 2003, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights found that 200,000 units of housing were needed immediately in Indian country and that 90,000 Native families were homeless or underhoused. The growth of Indian gaming over the past twenty years has brought economic... |
2010 |