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Native American Law

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This developing page highlights:

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Those seeking a wider range of books could review reading suggestions made by the staff of First Nations Development Institute, books honored in campaign: #NativeReads, and books highlighted by subject at Birchbark Books.   

  • The BLS Library team purchases some ebooks from ProQuest Ebook Central (EBC). 
    • Tip re. EBC ebooks in BLS Library's SARA catalog: First-time use of the EBC ebook platform requires BLS students to click: Create Account. 
      • Subsequent use of an EBC ebook: enter BLS username (format: firstname.lastname@brooklaw.edu) & password.

The boxes below include open access books available through platform: OAPEN Home.  This platform includes collections: Knowledge Unlatched (KU), Sustainable History Monograph Pilot (SHMP) and Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME). 

Tips to find more books in OAPEN Home:

  • Browse by subjects: Colonialism & Imperialism, History of the Americas, and Indigenous Peoples. 
  • Search by words that describe a research topic (example: resistance Dakota Access Pipeline).
  • Search by words that describe groups (example: Powhatan People) and individuals (example: Maylei Blackwell).

Recent Books: Environmental Justice

(Primarily) Recent Books: Identity & Activism

Multidisciplinary Series: New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies

Click here to view BLS Library's holdings in the series: New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies.                                                  

Excerpt from this description of the series: "The University of Nebraska Press and the American Philosophical Society’s New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies proposes to publish first-rate research in Native American History and Native American Legal and Policy Studies, with an emphasis on the subject area in the disciplines of History, Anthropology, Law, Legal History, Religious Studies, Social Work, Health, and Public Policy."  One recently published book in this series is:

Additional Recent Books

Related sources: Iroquois Genealogy Society provides records of this residential school attended by Hodinöhsö:ni' children.  National Museum of the American Indian provides a photo collection of this school's students.