American Indian Studies: Government & Law

Created by the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, New Mexico, in partnership with the US National Archives Office of Innovation and National Archives Foundation.

Created by the Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF), which works to promote education, increase cultural awareness, create economic opportunity, and reform the legal and administrative systems that prevent Indian people from owning and controlling reservation lands.

Hosted by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities.

Provides access to tribal constitutions, codes, and other legal documents.

A student-run law journal at UCLA that publishes writings concerning Native Peoples’ cultures, traditions, and histories.

Hosts a variety of resources on American history relating to Native Americans.

Photos, early film footage, federal government reports, cartoons, and maps tell the complex tale of the efforts to assimilate Native Americans through education.

Multimedia resources that support instruction about Native Americans, including expert presentations, exhibitions, bibliographies, Webcasts, and other online materials.

November is National American Indian Heritage Month. The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the rich ancestry and traditions of Native Americans.

The oldest bureau of the United States Department of the Interior.