Felix Cohen (1907-1953) was a leading architect of the Indian New Deal and steadfast champion of American Indian rights. Appointed to the Department of the Interior in 1933, he helped draft the Indian Reorganization Act (1934) and chaired a committee charged with assisting tribes in organizing their governments. His Basic Memorandum on Drafting of Tribal Constitutions, submitted in November 1934, provided practical guidelines for that effort. Largely forgotten until Cohen\u27s papers were released more than half a century later, the memorandum now receives the attention it has long deserved. David E. Wilkins presents the entire work, edited and introduced with an essay that describes its origins and places it in historical context. Cohen ...
In American law, Native nations (denominated in the Constitution and elsewhere as “tribes”) are sove...
American Indian tribes are in a crisis of identity. No one can rationally devise a boundary line bet...
This dissertation examines federal Indian law of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries as cons...
Before Europeans arrived in what is now known as the United States, over 600 diverse Native nations ...
Federal Indian law... is a loosely related collection of past and present acts of Congress, treaties...
The rhetoric of the Indian New Deal has directed scholars to study tribal political activities only ...
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. June 2009. Major: American Studies. Advisor: Jean M. O’B...
In 1942 Felix S Cohen published the Handbook of Federal Indian Law the first synthesis of that field...
In this paper I trace the development of Native American constitutionalism in the early twentieth ce...
A pressing international challenge is developing processes of constitution-making that manage the po...
Traditionally, the native people of the North American continent did not evolve levels of organizati...
His public life had been dedicated to improving the condition of Native people. Eastman worked with ...
The Indian Reorganization (Wheeler-Howard) Act of 1934 (IRA) was, by all accounts, one of the most s...
One of the best-known discussions of the historical foundations of native title law is Felix Cohen's...
Cohen\u27s Handbook of Federal Indian Law is an encyclopedic treatise written by experts in the fiel...
In American law, Native nations (denominated in the Constitution and elsewhere as “tribes”) are sove...
American Indian tribes are in a crisis of identity. No one can rationally devise a boundary line bet...
This dissertation examines federal Indian law of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries as cons...
Before Europeans arrived in what is now known as the United States, over 600 diverse Native nations ...
Federal Indian law... is a loosely related collection of past and present acts of Congress, treaties...
The rhetoric of the Indian New Deal has directed scholars to study tribal political activities only ...
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. June 2009. Major: American Studies. Advisor: Jean M. O’B...
In 1942 Felix S Cohen published the Handbook of Federal Indian Law the first synthesis of that field...
In this paper I trace the development of Native American constitutionalism in the early twentieth ce...
A pressing international challenge is developing processes of constitution-making that manage the po...
Traditionally, the native people of the North American continent did not evolve levels of organizati...
His public life had been dedicated to improving the condition of Native people. Eastman worked with ...
The Indian Reorganization (Wheeler-Howard) Act of 1934 (IRA) was, by all accounts, one of the most s...
One of the best-known discussions of the historical foundations of native title law is Felix Cohen's...
Cohen\u27s Handbook of Federal Indian Law is an encyclopedic treatise written by experts in the fiel...
In American law, Native nations (denominated in the Constitution and elsewhere as “tribes”) are sove...
American Indian tribes are in a crisis of identity. No one can rationally devise a boundary line bet...
This dissertation examines federal Indian law of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries as cons...