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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.1 | The History Cooperative

The Encyclopedia of Native American Legal Tradition. Ed. by Bruce Elliott Johansen. (Westport: Greenwood, 1998. xii, 410 pp. $95.00, isbn 0-313-30167-0.)

It is amazing that no one had thought of compiling a layperson's sourcebook of federal Indian law and politics until the present time. For most of this century Indians at every level of knowledge and sophistication have been involved in federal and state legislation and litigation, yet there has been no single simple source from which to gather information. Felix S. Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law (1992) provides good data on a variety of topics, but using it is not a casual task. Indeed, some topics are covered so intensely that the reader still does not know what the probable meaning of a legal doctrine is—or whether an idea is in fact a legal doctrine. . . .

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