A casebook on Indian law, divided into three major sections: the history of federal Indian law and policy; federal Indian law and policy in contemporary perspective; and the frontiers of indigenous peoples' rights. This revised and updated edition (2nd ed., 1986) brings current the law and adds new materials in such areas as the origins of federal Indian law, the expanding influence of tribes in modern lawmaking in Congress, comparative and international approaches to indigenous rights, and tribal judicial systems, including opinions of the Navajo Nation Supreme Court. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Cases and Materials on Federal Indian Law (American Casebook Series)

Getches, David H.

Wilkinson, Charles F.

Williams, Robert A.

Administrative Law

West Group

Part I covers the history of federal Indian law and policy, including material on the history of the European "Doctrine of Discovery" and American Indian rights; the formative years (1789–1871); and a century of shifting policy (1871–present). Part II covers federal Indian law in its contemporary perspective, including material on the following topics: the federal tribal relationship; tribal sovereignty, federal supremacy, and states' rights; the jurisdictional framework; criminal and civil court jurisdiction; taxation and regulation of reservation economic development; Indian religion and culture; water rights; fishing and hunting rights; rights of Alaska natives and native Hawaiians; and comparative and international legal perspectives.

Cases And Materials On Federal Indian Law (American Casebook Series)

Business

West Academic

Reliable source on water law contains updated court decisions from hundreds of case and statutory changes in several states. There is an added discussion on surface use of waters in light of the increased importance of public recreational water uses. Throughout the edition, where appropriate, analysis expands on the subjects of instream flow protection, water quality, and public-interest concerns in water use and water collection.

Water Law in a Nutshell (Nutshell Series)

Environmental & Natural Resources Law

Riparian Rights; Prior Appropriation; Hybrid Systems and Other Variations; Rights to Use the Surface of Waterways; Groundwater; Diffused Surface Waters; Federal and Indian Reserved Rights; Federal Control of Water and Water Development; Interstate Allocation; Water Service and Supply Organizations.

Water law in a nutshell (Nutshell series)

West Pub. Co.

Cases and materials on Federal Indian law (American casebook series)

After your casebook, "Casenotes" will be your most important reference source for the entire semester. It is the most popular legal briefs series available, with over 140 titles, and is relied on by thousands of students for its expert case summaries, comprehensive analysis of concurrences and dissents, as well as of the majority opinion in the briefs.

Casenote Legal Briefs: Indian Law - Keyed to Getches, Wilkinson & Williams

Casenotes Pub Co

Introducing public school finance to native Americans

Business & Money

Economics

National Indian Training and Research Center

To the uninitiated, water policy seems a complicated, hypertechnical, and incomprehensible subject: a tangle of engineering jargon and legalese surrounding a complex, delicate, and interrelated structure. Decisions concerning the public's waters involve scant public participation, and in such a context, reform seems risky at best.
Searching Out the Headwaters addresses that precarious situation by providing a thorough and straightforward analysis of western water use and the outmoded rules that govern it. The authors begin by tracing the history and evolution of the uses of western water. They describe the demographic and economic changes now occurring in the region, and identify the many communities of interest involved in all water-use issues. After an examination of the central precepts of current water policy, along with their original rationale and subsequent evolution, they consider the reform movement that has recently begun to emerge. In the end, the authors articulate the foundations for a water policy that can meet the needs of the new West and discuss the various means for effectively implementing such a policy, including market economics, regulation, the broad-based use of scientific knowledge, and open and full public participation.

Searching Out the Headwaters: Change And Rediscovery In Western Water Policy

Science & Math

Bates, Sarah F.

MacDonnell, Lawrence

Biological Sciences

Island Press

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