LibGuides: Indigenous Rights: Research Guide

Jurisdictional Resources

Indigenous Law Portal - United States
resources concerning Native Americans' civil and political rights as US citizens
The National Indian Law Library (NILL)
a law library devoted to federal Indian and tribal law. NILL maintains a unique and valuable collection of Native law resources and assists people with their Indigenous law-related research needs.
Research Guide to Native Tribal Law
"Tribal law" comprises the laws developed by tribes or Native nations, which apply within their territories and to their members. It can be a difficult area of law to research because few primary and secondary resources are published and made available to the public.
Tribal Court Decisions

Indigenous Peoples of the Americas: History, Culture & Law This link opens in a new window
expansive archive of treaties, federal statutes and regulations, federal case law, tribal codes, constitutions, and jurisprudence. It also features rare compilations edited by Felix S. Cohen that have never before been accessible online.

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources founded in 1994. Originally containing digitized back issues of academic journals, it now encompasses books and other primary sources as well as current issues of journals in the humanities and social sciences. It provides full-text searches of almost 2,000 journals. Full-text scholarly journal issues are typically added to the database 3 to 5 years after the publication date.

Citing Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Keepers
Indigenous Studies Portal
Native Health Database The Native Health Database contains bibliographic information and abstracts of health-related articles, reports, surveys, and other resource documents pertaining to the health and health care of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Nations. The database provides information for the benefit, use, and education of organizations and individuals with an interest in health-related issues, programs, and initiatives regarding North American Indigenous peoples.
The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous People's Politics
University of Tulsa: Native American Legal Research Guide
Virtual Library - American Indians Index of Native American Legal Resources on the Internet