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Indian Law

Special Reports

- Other Title: Cabazon, the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, and the Socioeconomic Consequences of American Indian Governmental Gaming: a Ten-year Review.

- A bill to include provisions relating to the payment and administration of gaming fees, and for other purposes: report together with minority views (to accompany S. 1529).

- The Johnson Act vs. The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, Heidi McNeil Staudenmaier & Andrew D. Lynch – an article that discusses class II gaming issues; it appeared in Gaming Law Review, Volume 8, Number 4, 2004.

- Hearing before the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, on oversight Hearing on the Regulation of Indian Gaming.

- Hearing before the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session on oversight hearing on implementation of the Texas Restoration Act, June 18, 2002, Washington, DC.

- Publications, Programs, and Legal and Organizational Files (1851-1983) from the Association on American Indian Affairs Archives.

- Please note: the copy of the Meriam Report on the Internet contains the entire chapter on education but omits several sections of the full report. Please see this chart for information on sections omitted from this Internet copy. That site links to their chart showing what's missing. Apparently the Alaskool source leaves out various pages and sections of the original report and some other materials published in the report without noting the deletions (at least my quick scan of the pages didn't notice a notation of the deleted materials.) The other problem with this internet version is that apparently the original page numbers are missing so that it becomes difficult or impossible to adequately cite.

- A Report to the Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, May 1997.

- An important goal of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, is to ensure access to telecommunications services for all Americans. The Federal Communications Commission has made efforts to improve the historically low subscribership rates of Native Americans on tribal lands. In addition, Congress is considering legislation to establish a grant program to help tribes improve telecommunications services on their lands. This report discusses 1) the status of telecommunications subscribership for Native Americans living on tribal lands; 2) federal programs available for improving telecommunications on these lands; 3) barriers to improvements; and 4) how some tribes are addressing these barriers.

- Indian Land Cessions in the United States U.S. Serial Set Number 4015 contains the second part of the two-part Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1896-97 by J.W. Powell, Director. Part two of the Report features sixty-seven maps and two tables compiled by Charles C. Royce, with an introductory essay by Cyrus Thomas. The tables are entitled: Schedule of Treaties and Acts of Congress Authorizing Allotments of Lands in Severalty Schedule of Indian Land Cessions The Schedule of Indian Land Cessions subtitle notes that it "indicates the number and location of each cession by or reservation for the Indian tribes from the organization of the Federal Government to and including 1894, together with descriptions of the tracts so ceded or reserved, the date of the treaty, law or executive order governing the same, the name of the tribe or tribes affected thereby, and historical data and references bearing thereon." The Schedule of Indian Land Cessions comprises 709 entries with links to the related map or maps for each entry. The tables and essays are available in both searchable text and page images, and the maps are available in images. Due to the complexity of information presented in each entry, it is strongly recommended that users print out both pages of a table entry for comparison with the related map.

- February 2006 United States Census 2000 special report about American Indian and Alaska native groups. Features data about size of population, age, household types, languages spoken, educational attainment, labor force participation, occupations, earnings, poverty rate, home ownership, and living on tribal lands for the following tribal groupings: Apache, Cherokee, Chippewa, Choctaw, Creek, Iroquois, Lumbee, Navaho, Pueblo, Sioux, Alaskan Athabascan, Aleut, Eskimo, and Tlingit-Haida. Opens directly into a PDF document. From the U.S. Census Bureau.