NILL & Westlaw Work with Tribes to Improve Access to Tribal Law

The Native American Rights Fund (NARF) is pleased to announce a new strategic alliance with West, a Thomson Reuters business. Under this alliance, NARF and West will work to improve access to Native American tribal law available through NARF's National Indian Law Library (NILL) and Westlaw, West's premier online legal research service. Select tribal law content will be editorially annotated by West for Westlaw and will be cross-linked to court opinions and other law on Westlaw when available. Unannotated tribal law will be freely available through the NILL website. Select materials may also be published in West print products and law books. Content will include tribal codes, ordinances, constitutions, and intergovernmental agreements. Read More

2009 List of Federally Recognized Tribes, 8/11/09

The Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs has published "Indian Entities Recognized and Eligible To Receive Services From the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs." on 8/11/09.

The list includes 564 tribal entities in the contiguous 48 states and Alaska.

Two tribes have been added to the list since the last publication. Federal relations have been reestablished with Wilton Rancheria pursuant to a court-ordered settlement and government-to-government relations were reestablished with the Delaware Tribe of Indians through its reorganization under federal statute, the Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act. In addition, name changes and corrections have also been made.

See the notice on the Access GPO web site: PDF, Text.

New Edition - American Indian Law In a Nutshell

The 2009 edition of American Indian Law in a Nutshell contains no drastic changes in terms of its organization (chapter titles, subsections, preface, or index). It still focuses on cases involving American Indians and Alaska Natives, generally leaving cases related to Native Hawai’ians out. The major update is Canby’s addition of a number of new law cases, which brings the book’s length to 548 pages (496 in the fourth edition). Canby accounts for the expansion of Indian case law by mentioning the “greatly increased economic activity of many tribes, particularly those engaged in gaming.” Most of the new cases are from recent years (since the publication of the previous edition in 2004), but some older cases are included as well. If you would like to purchase the book, you can follow this link.

Canby, William C. American Indian Law in a Nutshell. Fifth edition. St. Paul, MN:
Thomson/West, 2009.