This text sets forth in succinct form the essentials of this very complex body of law, with attention to the governmental policies underlying it. Some specialized matter that falls within this field has been omitted, such as the special problems in Oklahoma or New York, the serious problems of urban Indians, and the subject of the Native Hawaiians.
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This review is from: American Indian Law in a Nutshell (Nutshell Series) (In a Nutshell (West Publishing)) (Paperback)
I teach federal Indian law to undergraduate and graduate students. This book by Judge Canby is our primary text, supplemented by a 500-page course reader. Although federal Indian law is the most complex body of law in the U.S. legal system, the Canby book gives scholars and novices alike a good educational and reference work on the multitude of subjects that are covered. I recommend it as a 1st source for anyone interested in federal Indian law.
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I am currently designing an American Indian Law college course for an assignment at Iowa State University. This text has been extremly useful. It is a dense, informative, must-have for anyone going into or interested in American Indian Law, politics, federal law, historical law or American law. Canby presents legal facts with the historical and current American setiment of the American Indian. He also includes effects on and the general reactions of American Indians to laws past and present, politics are not excluded.
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Although I understand the earlier reviewer's concern regarding anti-discrimination law and how miserable law school can be, I have found this book to be the best possible introduction to Indian Law. My law school offered no Indian Law class, and wanting to learn more after I read about the Cobell case, I needed a concise book. Canby has done a wonderful job. His historical introduction is a quick and engrossing read, and the other chapters in the book are equally clear and concise. I owe him much, given that I wrote two papers on Indian Law in law school and quoted extensively from him. Yes, Indian Law is a complex field where tribal sovereignty and the government's trust responsibility often collide and where concepts of jurisdiction and property are seriously muddled, but Canby gives you just what you need to get your legs under you, understand the basic concepts, and know where to begin to research from there.
If the Indian Law bug bites you after reading this book, which it likely will, then you can move on to the 2005 edition of Felix Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law or the 2005 Clinton, Goldberg and Tsosie American Indian Law manual - and spend the big bucks!
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The term "Indian Law" is a catchall with various meanings, but it refers primarily to that body of law dealing with the status of the Indian tribes and their special relationship to the federal government, with all the attendant consequences for the tribes and their members, the states and their citizens, and the federal government. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
domestic dependent status, appropriative system, adjudicatory jurisdiction, tribal immunity, tribal court jurisdiction, adjudicative jurisdiction, tribal criminal jurisdiction, nationwide applicability, dual prosecution, irrigable acreage, sympathetic construction, general adjudication, treaty hunting, preemption analysis, amended opinion, secretarial approval, federal trust responsibility, concerned tribes, tribal regulation, gaming compact, aboriginal title, tribal jurisdiction, tribal courts, tribal ordinances, other civil cases Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Public Law, Major Crimes Act, General Crimes Act, Alaska Native, New Mexico, Secretary of the Interior, Indian Civil Rights Act, Ninth Circuit, Oklahoma Tax Comm'n, Allotment Act, South Dakota, Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, Indian Reorganization Act, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Fort Berthold, Mescalero Apache Tribe, Fifth Amendment, Assimilative Crimes Act, National Farmers Union, White Mountain Apache Tribe, Bill of Rights, Crow Tribe, Eleventh Amendment, New York New!
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The term "Indian Law" is a catchall with various meanings, but it refers primarily to that body of law dealing with the status of the Indian tribes and their special relationship to the federal government, with all the attendant consequences for the tribes and their members, the states and their citizens, and the federal government. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
domestic dependent status, appropriative system, adjudicatory jurisdiction, tribal immunity, tribal court jurisdiction, adjudicative jurisdiction, tribal criminal jurisdiction, nationwide applicability, dual prosecution, irrigable acreage, sympathetic construction, general adjudication, treaty hunting, preemption analysis, amended opinion, secretarial approval, federal trust responsibility, concerned tribes, tribal regulation, gaming compact, aboriginal title, tribal jurisdiction, tribal courts, tribal ordinances, other civil cases Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Public Law, Major Crimes Act, General Crimes Act, Alaska Native, New Mexico, Secretary of the Interior, Indian Civil Rights Act, Ninth Circuit, Oklahoma Tax Comm'n, Allotment Act, South Dakota, Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, Indian Reorganization Act, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Fort Berthold, Mescalero Apache Tribe, Fifth Amendment, Assimilative Crimes Act, National Farmers Union, White Mountain Apache Tribe, Bill of Rights, Crow Tribe, Eleventh Amendment, New York New!
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- Blackstone's Statutes on Public Law by Peter Wallington on 6 pages
- The Supreme Court (World Almanac Library of American Government) by Geoffrey M. Horn on page 433, page 435, and page 443
- Native American (Seeds of Wisdom) by Rider on page 342
- The Great Lakes: A Literary Field Guide (Stories from Where We Live) by Sara St. Antoine on page 471
- Riverside County by Automobile Club of Southern California on page 243
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- Indian Gaming And Tribal Sovereignty: The Casino Compromise by Steven Andrew Light in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Negotiated Sovereignty: Working to Improve Tribal-State Relations by Jeffrey S. Ashley on page 26, and Back Matter
- Legalized Racism: Federal Indian Policy And The End of Equal Rights For All Americans by A. R. Eguiguren on page 132, and Back Matter
- Real Indians: Identity and the Survival of Native America by Eva Marie Garroutte in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Property Relations: Renewing the Anthropological Tradition by C. M. Hann in Back Matter
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