American Indian Law

Harvard HLS

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: In Class This course covers the origins of colonization in the Americas and the fundamentals of modern federal Indian law in the United States. Beginning with its international law roots, we move to the relative bounds of federal, tribal and state jurisdiction over Indian reservations, tribal citizens and non-citizens. Hunting, fishing and gathering rights; Indian gaming; status of Native Hawaiians and settlement of Alaska Native land claims are also…