Databases

Decisions of the Interior Board of Indian Appeals

http://www.ibiadecisions.com/

"This site contains decisions issued by the Interior Board of Indian Appeals from its inception in 1970 through December 18, 2003. This is an unofficial site and is not associated in any way with the Department of the Interior. The site is offered as a public service and will remain on-line until the official website of the Interior Board of Indian Appeals returns."

Wisconsin Judicare's Indian Law Office

http://www.judicare.org/sct.html

"Seminal Supreme Court Cases regarding Federal Indian Law. Included are links to the text of many of the Supreme Court decisions that have shaped and influenced Indian Law. These cases are listed in chronological order."

Archives of the Association on American Indian Affairs

http://diglib.princeton.edu/ead/getEad?eadid=MC147&kw=Native%20American%20history

"Archives of the Association on American Indian Affairs document the corporate life of an influential and resilient player in the history of twentieth-century Native American advocacy. From its formation by non-Indians in New York in 1922 to its re-establishment in South Dakota in 1995 under a wholly Indian administration, the AAIA has defended the rights and promoted the welfare of Native Americans and, in this process, has shaped the views of their fellow citizens."

Indian Land Areas Judicially Established 1978 (Indian Claims Commission)

http://www.cr.nps.gov/nagpra/DOCUMENTS/ClaimsMAP.htm

The primary source map for this is "Indian Land Areas Judicially Established" (1978). The source map portrays results of cases before the U.S. Indian Claims Commission or the U.S. Court of Claims in which an American Indian tribe proved its original tribal occupancy of a tract within the continental United States. The map is available from the USGS.

The Elkus Papers

http://www.calacademy.org/research/library/elkus/stories/

The California Academy of Sciences houses a collection of over 3,300 documents related to Indian affairs over the period 1922-1963. These papers came from the estate of Charles de Young Elkus, a San Francisco attorney.