Social Movements & the Law

This guide includes a selection of legal, governmental, and public policy resources in various formats on Native American law.

Print and Online Resources for Federal Indian Law and Tribal Law

Covers both tribal law sources, including tribal constitutions, tribal codes and tribal court decisions, and federal law sources, including treaties.

Reports, hotlines, toolkits, and information about MMIW

In the United States, American Indian/Alaskan Native people experience higher rates of violence than any other demographic.  Native women and girls, specifically, are disproportionately affected by the violence.

Background In Spring 2016, the Standing Rock Sioux began a protest of the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, or DAPL for short, on their lands in North Dakota. DAPL is slated to connect the Bakken oil fields of North Dakota with other pipelines in Illinois and was mapped to go through lands belonging to Native American nations, including the Standing Rock tribe. The tribe and its supporters are demonstrating against the desecration of sacred lands, the abrogation tribal rights guaranteed by the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851), and the potential damage to the water supply.

Paul Richert (University of Akron School of Law) created a guide to law library libguides (research guides).

Ṣapai Cui'ig, S-ke:g ‘Em-Jiwhidag, Yá'át'ééh, Dagot’ee, Welcome! The Labriola National American Indian Data Center is an Indigenous-led library center where students and community members can celebrate and critically engage with American Indian and Indigenous scholarly works and creative writing. Its staff provides culturally relevant information and research support, and the center is a culturally safe learning space for Indigenous library users.

Toolkit: Indigenous Rights and the Universal Periodic Review of the U.S. Suggested Social Media Content • Additional Resources & Background “The government of the United States has repeatedly failed to protect the human rights of the Gwich’in by aggressively pursuing oil and gas development i...

The University of New Mexico School of Law Library has an extensive and well-preserved in-house Indian Law Collection, and information on many online resources. We have five (5) separate research guides on distinct areas within Indian Law. Choosing one of these five (5) guides will have its own unique tabs across the top. Use the links below to move between guides, and within the guides. These guides are starting points

This research guide is designed to assist attorneys and scholars in researching federal Indian law, tribal law, and international law related to indigenous peoples. Federal Indian law consists of the legal and political relationship between federal, state, and tribal governments. The guide provides information on researching the statutes, regulations, court decisions, treaties, and executive orders that control intergovernmental relationships among Indian tribes, the United States, and the fifty states. Tribal law is the law individual Indian tribes develop and apply to their members and territories. The guide details resources for accessing tribal law for tribes located within Arizona as well as outside of the state. International indigenous law is the interaction between public international law and Indigenous peoples. The guide focuses on key resources for public international law related to indigenous peoples with particular attention paid to relevant secondary sources, key international documents, United Nations resources, and current awareness sources.

This page is a starting point for ASU students primarily, and the wider community seeking Indigenous-centric resources and tribal perspectives on COVID-19 (novel coronavirus).

This page is a starting point for all students researching American Indian issues. This guide is created by the Labriola National American Indian Data Center.

This guide covers federal, tribal, and state (primarily Minnesota) law-related resources. Use this guide to locate: secondary sources (books, articles, and, news) and primary sources (treaties, case law, statutes and agency rules, and decisions). Links to additional selected research guides & bibliographies are provided. Selected links are also provided to bar and law student associations, public and private research institutes, and centers, and Native American advocacy organizations. A separate section devoted to the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 and its aftermath provides links to recommended resources for research.

This guide will help you get started with your research on legal issues relating to Native Americans, Alaska Natives and other peoples indigenous to North America.

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The Indigenous Digital Encyclopedia

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The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 was signed on September 17, 1851 between United States treaty commissioners and representatives of the Cheyenne, Sioux, Arapaho, Crow, Assiniboine, Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nations. Also known as Horse Creek Treaty, the treaty set forth traditional territorial claims of the tribes.

The Treaty of Fort Laramie is an agreement between the United States and the Oglala, Miniconjou, and Brulé bands of Lakota people, Yanktonai Dakota, and Arapaho Nation, following the failure of the first Fort Laramie treaty, signed in 1851.

United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians, 448 U.S. 371 (1980), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that: 1) the enactment by Congress of a law allowing the Sioux Nation to pursue a claim against the United States that had been previously adjudicated did not violate the doctrine of separation of powers; and 2) the taking of property that was set aside for the use of the tribe required just compensation, including interest. The Sioux have not accepted the compensation awarded to them by this case, valued at over $1 billion as of 2011.