Legal encyclopedias provide exhaustive, topically arranged surveys of the law designed for the practitioner and legal researcher. Each entry typically sets out a detailed, well-organized treatment of its topic, including references to significant cases, statutes, law review articles, and other research tools.

American Jurisprudence: A Modern Comprehensive Text Statement of American Law, State and Federal (2d ed. 1962-).
The scope of the Indians article includes:

• The status of Native Americans
• Their rights and liabilities as tribes as well as individuals
• The powers of the federal and state governments over Indians
• The validity, effect, and application of legislation addressing social and political issues and problems involving Indians
• Indian lands, with particular emphasis on the allotment of Indian lands
• Other matters as they relate to Indians, such as probate, descent and distribution, child custody, and civil and criminal law enforcement

41 Am. Jur. 2d Indians;Native Americans "Scope," at 557 (2005).
Location: KF154 .A7 (South Reading Room, west)

Corpus Juris Secundum: A Complete Restatement of the Entire American Law as Developed by All Reported Cases (1936-).
The Indians entry discusses "persons wholly or partly of American Indian or Native American blood and the rights, disabilities, protection, and regulation of such persons, and the government of Indian country. Also considered is the status and government of Native American lands and reservations in general." 42 C.J.S. Indians "Scope," at 199 (2007).
Location: KF154 .C601 (South Reading Room, west)

Encyclopedia of United States Indian Policy and Law (Paul Finkelman & Tim Alan Garrison eds. 2009).
Location: KF8205 .E52 2009

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