The University of Illinois System – with its universities in Urbana-Champaign, Chicago, and Springfield – rests on the land of multiple native nations. These lands were the traditional birthright of indigenous peoples who were forcibly removed and who have faced two centuries of struggle for survival and identity in the wake of dispossession. We hereby acknowledge the ground on which we stand so that all who come here know that we recognize our responsibilities to the peoples of that land and that we strive to address that history so that it guides our work in the present and the future.
For more information on the University of Illinois System's land acknowledgment statement, see https://www.uillinois.edu/about/land_acknowledgement.
To find an item in UIC's collection that is not listed at right, please use the law library's catalog or the UIC library's online catalog.
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSHs) may be used to locate multiple titles on the same topic. For example, some LCSHs assigned to works on Federal Indian Law are:
For items on individual tribes, use the name of the tribe, then "Law." The following are examples:
There are several Web-based initiatives that serve as online repositories for books:
HathiTrust: HathiTrust is a partnership of over 50 major research institutions and libraries (UIC is currently included). Works that are in the public domain contained in the HathiTrust database are available to all researchers. Many search options are offered, including full text.
Google Books: Books contained in Google Books come from two sources: 1) the Library Project and 2) the Partner Program. Books included from the partnered Library Project that are no longer in copyright may be viewed in full text, while only snippets of books still in copyright are available. Only previews of books are available through the Partner Program.
Blood Will Tell by 
Broken Landscape: Indians, Indian Tribes, and the Constitution by 
Crime and Social Justice in Indian Country by 
Killers of the Flower Moon by 
Pathways to Indigenous Nation Sovereignty by 
Recognition, Sovereignty Struggles, and Indigenous Rights in the United States by 
The Supreme Court's Role in American Indian Policy by Felix S. Cohen (1907-1953) is known as the "father of Federal Indian Law." He joined the U.S. Department of the Interior Solicitor's Office in 1933 and drafted the first edition of the Handbook of Federal Indian Law in 1941.
The treatise is now available on Lexis as Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law and is updated regularly.
Both Westlaw and Lexis offer access to treatises on Native American law. In Westlaw, you can limit your searches to secondary sources that focus on Federal Indian Law. Choose "Native American Law" from the list of "Practice Areas," then go to "Secondary Sources." In Lexis, you can choose "Native American Law" under "Practice Area," and then "Secondary Materials."