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DeJong, David H. (2015) American Indian Treaties: A Guide to Ratified and Unratified Colonial, United States, State, Foreign, and Intertribal Treaties and Agreements, 1607–1911. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. ISBN 978-1-60781-425-2; Finkelman, Paul; Garrison, Tim Alan (2008). Encyclopedia of United States Indian Policy and Law ...
Prucha, Francis Paul, ed. Documents of United States Indian Policy (3rd ed. 2000) Prucha, Francis Paul. American Indian Treaties: The History of a Political Anomaly (1997) excerpt and text search; Prucha, Francis Paul. The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians (abridged edition, 1986) Ruppel, Kristin T. (2007).
In response, Jackson wrote a book, originally published with her H. H. pseudonym but then in 1885 reprinted under her own name Helen Jackson, in which she condemned state and federal Indian policies. She recounted a history of broken treaties. A Century of Dishonor (1881) called for significant reform in government policy toward Native ...
The book studies the systems that have been developed and used by the Navajo Nation for a variety of legal purposes, forming a distinctive legal framework shaped both by internal factors and by interactions with the United States federal government. [5] By 2013, the book had been published in four editions. [1] American Indian Politics and the ...
Since then, almost every United States president has reiterated his commitment to reestablishing a government-to-government relationship between federal and tribal governments. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] President Clinton's first significant action within Indian policy was his issuance of Executive Order 12875, "Enhancing the Intergovernmental Partnership ...
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), also known as Indian Affairs (IA), [2] is a United States federal agency within the Department of the Interior.It is responsible for implementing federal laws and policies related to Native Americans and Alaska Natives, and administering and managing over 55,700,000 acres (225,000 km 2) of reservations held in trust by the U.S. federal government for ...
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Public Law 280 [1] is a federal law of the United States that changes legal jurisdiction on Indian lands and over Indian persons. The law transfers some jurisdiction from the federal government to states in both civil and criminal cases in certain places. It was passed in 1953.