Native Americans

Indigenous Law Portal

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Large open-access collection of links to documents and websites concerning indigenous law, provided by LLMC Digital. Originally developed by the Law Library of Congress, the portal has sections covering the United States, Canada, Mexico and the circumpolar Arctic, and there are plans to extend its coverage to South America. Includes general websites, such as the Tribal Court Clearing House in the US and the Assembly of First Nations in Canada, as well as websites of individual tribes and NGOs and sites dealing with particular subjects (land tenure, environmental law and so on).

Native American Constitutions and Legal Materials

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Collection of Native American constitutions, laws and related material, held by the Law Library of Congress and digitised by it. Includes documents issued by the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole, from the nineteenth century onwards. Some material is in English and some in the vernacular.

Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project

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An online archive providing access to the texts of constitutions, tribal codes and other legal materials relating to Native American peoples. Other documents on the site include the 1941 Handbook of Federal Indian Law by Felix S. Cohen, historical constitutions and charters, treaties, research guides and treatises about land titles and information on the development of tribal courts in Alaska. The site is a joint project by the University of Oklahoma Law Library and the National Indian Law library of the Native American Rights Fund.

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