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UNIT 1
Founding Fathers
Early Foundations of Federal Indian Law

  1. Introduction
  2. Doctrine of Discovery
  3. Royal Proclamation of 1763
  4. U.S. Constitution
  5. Treaties
  6. Marshall Trilogy (1823-1832)
  7. Removal and Reservations
  8. Crow Dog Case (1883)
  9. Assimilation
  10. Russians in Alaska and U.S. Purchase (1867)
  11. Early Years in Alaska after Purchase

UNIT 2

Alaska Territory to Statehood and Events Leading to Settlement of Claims

  1. Introduction
  2. Early Education and Effects of the Nelson Act (1905)
  3. Early Alaska Native Land Cases and Acts
  4. Citizenship: United States, State of Alaska, Tribal
  5. Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
  6. Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law: Case’s Alaska Natives and American Laws
  7. World War II
  8. Indian Country Statute (1948)
  9. Termination Era 1950′s, Public Law 280
  10. Alaska Statehood and Build Up to Alaska Native Land Claims

UNIT 3

Settlement of Claims and Self-Determination

  1. Introduction
  2. Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA), 1971
  3. Indian Self Determination and Education Act (ISDEAAO), 1975
  4. Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), 1978
  5. Subsistence (ANILCA, 1980)

UNIT 4
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Tribal Sovereignty

  1. Introduction
  2. Federal Recognition of Alaska Tribes and Relations with the State of Alaska
  3. Alaska Tribal Sovereignty and Jurisdiction: Major Case Law Affecting Alaska Tribal Sovereignty
  4. Relationships Between Alaska and Lower 48 Tribes
  5. Modern Tribal Governments in Alaska
  6. General Principles of Federal Indian Law