NASX 276 Federal Indian Law and Policy

This course will trace the history of federal Indian policy, its changes, causes, personalities, and lasting effects on American Indian tribes, land, and individuals. This historical account will focus on early European and Euro- American policies of enslavement and extermination followed by the United States policies of warfare, removal, reservation, reorganization, relocation, self-determination, and economic development. This course also studies the specialized field of Federal Indian Law utilizing both the historical and modern legal analysis processes. An understanding of the direct effects of the historical and contemporary federal and tribal legal developments on the “dual citizens” of those nations is the major goal of this course.

Credits

3

Distribution

Native Studies

Offered

Fall