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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Editors' Preface -- Preface -- Part I: The History of a New Federal Tribunal -- 1. The Long Road to the Court of Claims -- 2. Approaching the Gates of the Court: The Six Tribes and Congress until 1927 -- 3. Still Waiting at the Gates of the Court, 1926-1928 -- Part II: The Pocket Veto: Challengers and Challenges -- 4. Reacting to the Pocket Veto, 1927-1928 -- 5. The Supreme Court Agrees to Read and Listen, 1928-1929 -- 6. The Pocket Veto and the Supreme Court, 1929-1938 -- Part III: Beyond the Pocket Veto Case -- 7. Digging Deeper into the Pocket Veto Cases, 1970-1987 -- Conclusion -- Chronology -- Bibliographic Essay -- Index -- Back Cover.

front cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Editor's Note -- TREATIES -- September and October 1736 -- July 1742 -- June and July 1744 -- October 1745 -- November 1747 -- July 1748 -- October 1753 -- July and November 1756 -- March, April, and May 1757 -- July and August 1757 -- October 1758 -- August 1761 -- August 1762 -- Glossary of Persons and Groups Mentioned in the Treaties -- Index -- back cover.

This text describes the encounter between the common law legal system and the tribal peoples of North America and Australasia. It is a history of the role of anglophone law in managing relations between the British settlers and indigenous peoples from colonial foundation to the end of the 20th century

The study of American Indian law and policy usually focuses on federal statutes and court decisions, with these sources forming the basis for most textbooks. Virtually ignored is the robust and growing body of scholarly literature analyzing and contextualizing these primary sources. Reading American Indian Law is designed to fill that void. Organized into four parts, this book presents 16 of the most impactful law review articles written during the last three decades. Collectively, these articles explore the core concepts underlying the field: the range of voices including those of tribal governments and tribal courts, the role property has played in federal Indian law, and the misunderstandings between both people and sovereigns that have shaped changes in the law. Structured with flexibility in mind, this book may be used in a wide variety of classroom settings including law schools, tribal colleges, and both graduate and undergraduate programs.

Intro -- Preface: A Note on Terminology -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1 The Importance of Land -- 2 The Value of Sovereignty -- 3 The Question of Development -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: A Very Brief History of the Relationship Between Indigenous Peoples and the US Government -- 1 Colonialism -- 2 American Indians -- 2.1 Nation-to-Nation Relationship in the Colonial Period and the Early United States -- 2.2 Relocation Policy and the Reservation System -- 2.3 Assimilation and the General Allotment Act -- 2.4 Termination -- 2.5 Stewardship and Self-determination -- 3 Native Alaskans -- 3.1 Native Society in Alaska at Seward's Purchase -- 3.2 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act -- 3.3 Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act -- 4 Native Hawaiians -- 4.1 Hawai'i: The Kingdom, the Republic, and the State -- 4.2 Assumption of Assimilation -- 4.3 Cultural Preservation After Statehood -- 4.4 Proposed Nation-to-Nation Relationship -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Sovereignty -- 1 Legal and Theoretical Sovereignty -- 1.1 The Meaning of Sovereignty in the Context of Indigenous Peoples in the United States -- 1.2 The Cultural Value of Self-determination -- 2 Tribal Recognition -- 2.1 Federal Recognition -- 2.2 State Recognition -- 3 Tribal Membership -- 3.1 Blood Quantum -- 3.2 Descendancy and Residency -- 3.3 Termination and Disenrollment -- 4 Sovereign Land -- 5 Organizations Governing Land Use -- 5.1 Tribal Governments -- 5.2 Alaska Native Regional Corporations -- 5.3 Hawaiian Home Lands -- 6 Cultural Sovereignty -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Economic Outcomes of People -- 1 American Indians and Native Alaskans in Federal Data -- 2 Well-being in the Lower 48 and Alaska -- 3 Native Hawaiians -- 4 Comparison to Areas of Persistent Poverty in the United States -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: The Value and Use of Land.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Epigraphs -- Contents -- Preface: Seeing between Worlds -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Plan of the Book -- Chapter 1. Learning in Navajoland -- Chapter 2. "Indians" -- Chapter 3. Federal Anti-Indian Law -- Chapter 4. The Domination Matrix -- Chapter 5. Revoking Christian Discovery Doctrine -- Chapter 6. Federal Anti-Indian Law in the Classroom -- Chapter 7. Call to Consciousness -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.

This article examines the eighteenth century case of Mohegan Indians v. Connecticut in order to determine its significance for arguments about the legal status of Aboriginal customary law and government in British North America. The article concludes that the Mohegan case confirms that in certain circumstances native nations on reserved lands in British colonies were subject, not to colonial jurisdictions established for settlers, but to their own traditional customs and institutions. It also concludes that the case is less clear than some recent commentators have suggested about whether British law recognized such nations as having rights of sovereignty.

The Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act (OIWA), passed by Congress in 1936, brought Oklahoma Indians under all of the IRA's provisions, but included other measures that applied only to Oklahoma's tribal population. This first book-length history of the OIWA explains the law's origins, enactment, implementation, and impact, and shows how the act played a unique role in the Indian New Deal.