Native American Law: Tribal Codes & Constitutions

Researching Tribal Codes and Constitutions (highly useful resource page @ Tribal Law Gateway of National Indian Law Library)

• Describes (and provides a video on) how to search for provisions in 240+ Tribal Codes and 400+ Tribal Constitutions provided by the National Indian Law Library (NILL).  Offers a "custom search" feature on this web page.
  • Notes NILL's "custom search" feature will search online Tribal Codes/Constitutions and the table of contents of sources accessible in print or on a Tribe's website.
• Links to NILL's index at web page: Tribal Law Gateway: Find Tribal Law Materials by Tribe. 
• Links to NILL's catalog (some resources are available in digital form).
• Links to additional digital resources.

Indigenous Peoples of the Americas: History, Culture & Law (in HeinOnline) 

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Provides:

• Constitutions, Acts & By-Laws (772 documents)
  • HeinOnline's LibGuide states this collection contains "works related to the constitutions and laws of [I]ndigenous American [T]ribes."
• Digital versions of the 1st ed. (1981) and 2nd ed. (1988) of: Indian Tribal Codes: A Microfiche Collection of Indian Tribal Law Codes published by the Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library, University of Washington School of Law.
  • Offers: Browse by Edition and Browse by Tribe.

Tribal Codes (Enter Westlaw username/password)

• Contents links provided by Westlaw (links might include additional legislative material):
  • Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Indians
  • Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
  • Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians
  • Coquille Indian Tribe
  • Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
  • Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa & Chippewa
  • Kalispel Tribe of Indians
  • Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe
  • Little River Band of Ottawa Indians
  • Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa
  • Mashantucket Pequot
  • Navajo Nation
  • Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin
  • Poarch Band of Creek Indians
  • Ponca Tribe of Nebraska
  • Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation
  • Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa
  • Snoqualmie Indian Tribe
  • Squaxin Island Tribe
  • Standing Rock Sioux
  • Swinomish Indian Tribal Community
  • White Earth Nation
  • Wind River Reservation, Eastern Shoshone & Northern Arapaho Tribes
  • Yurok Tribe of California

Native American Law, sections: All Tribal Codes + Individual Tribal Codes (Enter Lexis+ username/password.)

Note: At present, there are no links to the specific databases below because the LibGuides platform stated that adding the links exceeded the number of characters allowed in a guide box.

•  Contents provided by Lexis+ (links might include additional legislative material):
  • Absentee Shawnee Tribal Law 
  • Ak-Chin Community Tribal Law 
  • Bay Mills Tribal Law 
  • Blackfeet Tribal Law 
  • Burns Paiute Tribal Law 
  • Chehalis Confederated Tribal Law 
  • Cherokee Nation Tribal Law 
  • Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Law 
  • Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribal Law 
  • Chippewa-Cree Tribal Law 
  • Chitimacha Tribal Law 
  • Choctaw Band Mississippi Tribal Law 
  • Comanche Nation Tribal Law 
  • Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians 
  • Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation 
  • Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community 
  • Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians Tribal Law 
  • Coquille Tribal Law 
  • Coushatta Tribal Law 
  • Crow Tribal Law 
  • Delaware Tribal Law 
  • Fond du Lac Tribal Law 
  • Forest County Potawatomi Tribal Law 
  • Fort Belknap Tribal Law 
  • Fort Peck Indian Reservation Laws 
  • Grand Traverse Tribal Law 
  • Gun Lake Tribal Law 
  • Ho-Chunk Tribal Law 
  • Hoh Tribal Law 
  • Hoopa Valley Tribal Law 
  • Hopi Tribal Law 
  • Hualapai Tribal Law 
  • Inter-Tribal Court of Nevada 
  • Kalispel Tribal Law 
  • Klamath Tribal Law 
  • Kootenai Tribal Law 
  • Las Vegas Paiute Tribal Law 
  • Laws of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes 
  • Laws of the Osage Nation 
  • Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Tribal Law 
  • Little River Band of Ottawa Tribal Law 
  • Little Traverse Bay Bands Odawa Tribal Law 
  • Lower Brule Sioux Tribal Law 
  • Lummi Tribal Law 
  • Makah Tribal Law 
  • Mashantucket Tribal Law 
  • Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Law 
  • Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Tribal Law 
  • Modoc Nation Tribal Law 
  • Muckleshoot Tribal Law 
  • Muscogee Creek Nation Tribal Law 
  • Navajo Nation Tribal Law 
  • Nez Perce Tribal Law 
  • Nisqually Tribal Law 
  • Nooksack Indian Tribal Law 
  • Northern Cheyenne Tribal Law 
  • Northern Plains Inter-Tribal 
  • Nottawaseppit Huron Band of Potawatomi Tribal Law 
  • Oneida Nation 
  • Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah 
  • Pascua Yaqui Tribal Law 
  • Passamaquoddy Tribal Law 
  • Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Tribal Law 
  • Ponca Tribal Law 
  • Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribal Law 
  • Prairie Band Potawatomi Tribal Law 
  • Puyallup Tribal Law 
  • Quileute Nation Tribal Law 
  • Rincon Band of Luiseno Indians Tribal Law 
  • Round Valley Tribal Law 
  • Sac and Fox Nation Missouri Tribal Law 
  • Sac and Fox Nation Oklahoma Tribal Law 
  • Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Law 
  • Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Law 
  • Samish Indian Nation Tribal Law 
  • San Juan Southern Paiute Tribal Law 
  • Sauk-Suiattle Tribal Law 
  • Sault Ste. Marie Chippewa Tribal Law 
  • Shoalwater Bay Tribal Law 
  • Skokomish Tribal Law 
  • Snoqualmie Indian Tribal Law 
  • Southern Ute Tribal Law 
  • Southwest Inter-Tribal 
  • Spokane Tribal Law 
  • St. Croix Tribal Law 
  • St. Regis Tribal Law 
  • Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Law 
  • Stillaguamish Tribal Law 
  • Suquamish Tribal Law 
  • Swinomish Tribal Law 
  • Tohono O'odham Tribal Law 
  • Tulalip Tribal Law 
  • Turtle Mountain Chippewa Tribal Law 
  • White Earth Nation Tribal Law 
  • Wind River Tribal Law 
  • Yurok Tribal Law