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- Addresses every significant legal issue facing Indians and Tribes in a concise, accessible format
- Author Stephen Pevar possess over 30 years of experience as a counsel for the ACLU combined with a extensive academic and lecturing experience
- Incorporates a user-friendly question-and-answer format
- Unique in its comprehensive treatment of the law as it applies to Indians and Tribes
The Rights of Indians and Tribes, first published in 1983, has sold over 100,000 copies and is the most popular resource in the field of Federal Indian Law. The book, which explains this complex subject in a clear and easy-to-understand way, is particularly useful for tribal advocates, government officials, students, practitioners of Indian law, and the general public. Numerous tribal leaders highly recommend this book. Incorporating a user-friendly question-and-answer format, The Rights of Indians and Tribes addresses the most significant legal issues facing Indians and Indian tribes today, including tribal sovereignty, the federal trust responsibility, the regulation of non-Indians on reservations, Indian treaties, the Indian Civil Rights Act, the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, and the Indian Child Welfare Act. This fully-updated new edition features an introduction by John Echohawk, Executive Director of the Native American Rights Fund.
Readership: Indians and Indian Tribes, students, law firms, state and federal agencies, general audience interested in Indian issues.
INTRODUCTION: John Echohawk, Executive Director, Native American Rights Fund
Preface
Map: Indian Reservations and Communities in the United States
I. A History of Federal Indian Policy
II. Definitions: Indian, Indian Tribe, Indian Country, and Indian Title
III. The Trust Responsibility
IV. Indian Treaties
V. Federal Power over Indian Affairs
VI. Tribal Self-Government
VII. State Power over Indian Affairs
VIII. Criminal Jurisdiction in Indian Country
IX. Civil Jurisdiction in Indian Country
X. Taxation
XI. Indian HUnting and Fishing Rights
XII. Indian Water Rights
XIII. Civil Rights of Indians
XIV. The Indian Civil Rights Act
XV. The Unique Status of Certain Indian Groups
XVI. Indian Gaming
XVII. The Indian Child Welfare Act
XVIII. Judical Review
Stephen Pevar, Senior Staff Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union
Stephen L. Pevar is a senior staff counsel of the American Civil Liberties Union. Mr. Pevar worked for Legal Services on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation from 1971-1974, and taught Federal Indian Law at the University of Denver School of Law from 1983-1999. He has litigated numerous Indian rights cases and has lectured extensively on the subject.
"As a tribal leader, I have found Stephen Pevar's book to be both an excellent and useful resource."
--W. Ron Allen, Chairman, Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe, and Treasurer of the National Congress of American Indians
"Every Indian should read this book."
--Suzan Shown Harjo, President, The Morning Star Institute (Cheyenne & Hodulgee Muscogee)
"Stephen Pevar's book is an indispensable part of the toolkit for American Indian lawyers, leaders, and scholars. Nothing is a more accessible, comprehensive, and realistic treatment of modern day tribal sovereignty than The Rights of Indians and Tribes. This was my introduction to Indian law and still frames much of my thinking on the future of Indian law and policy. Another edition of Pevar's ground-breaking work is just cause for celebration."
--Matthew Fletcher, Michigan State University College of Law
"This is a remarkable book, and there is nothing else like it. It explains the complex subject of federal Indian law in a clear and concise way. Both lawyers and non-lawyers will find this book very helpful, as I have."
--Honorable BJ Jones, Chief Judge of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate and Prairie Island Indian Community, and Director of the Tribal Judicial Institute, University of North Dakota School of Law
"I highly recommend this book. Many federal employees, including myself, rely on it. The book gives clear, useful, and well-documented answers for anyone approaching the vast and often intimidating subject of federal Indian law."
--Lori Windle, Vice-Chair, Society of American Indian Government Employees (Minnesota Chippewa, White Earth)
