“An Act To conserve and develop Indian lands and resources; to extend to Indians the right to form business and other organizations; to establish a credit system for Indians; to grant certain rights of home rule to Indians; to provide for vocational education for Indians; and for other purposes. ” Statutes at Large, 73rd Congress, Session 2. United States Government Printing Office, Washington DC, 1935. From Library of Congress, The Law Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/73rd-congress/session-2/c73s2ch576.pdf. (Inserted as banner background.)
“An act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes. (The Dawes Severality Act of 1887)” Statutes at Large, 49th Congress, Session 2. United States Government Printing Office, Washington DC, 1887. From Library of Congress, The Law Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/49th-congress/session-2/c49s2ch119.pdf. (Inserted as picture.)
Bell, C. M. , Approximately, photographer. The delegation of Sioux chiefs to ratify the sale of lands in South Dakota to the U.S. government, December,/ photographed and copyrighted by C.M. Bell, Washington, D.C. Great Plains, 1889. [or 1890] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/91787207/. (Inserted as banner background.)
Rusco, Elmer R. A Fateful Time: The Background and Legislative History of the Indian Reorganization Act. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2000.
Taylor, Graham D. The New Deal and American Indian Tribalism: The Administration of the Indian Reorganization Act, 1934-45. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1980.
Harris & Ewing, photographer. U.S. Indian commissioner appears before Senate Indian Affairs Committee. Washington, D.C., June 10. Indian Commissioner John Collier charged before the Senate Indian Affairs Committee today that vigorous "fifth Column" activity directed by Nazi propagandists has not been successful among the Indians but has "captured the unwatchful" Senate Indian Affairs Committee. Testifying upon Senate approved legislation exempting certain Indian tribes from the Wheeler-Howard Act, Collier said that the Indians did not approve the legislation and that it was proposed and back by "subversive" groups, 6-10-40. District of Columbia United States Washington D.C.. Washington D.C, 1940. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016877727/. (Inserted as banner background.)
Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, 3/15/24. , 1924. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016848808/. (Inserted as picture.)
Boyer, Patricio. “Felix Cohen and the Spanish Origins of Indian Rights.” Law, Culture, and the Humanities 8, no. 1 (October 2010): 153-172. https://journals-sagepub-com.proxy.library.cpp.edu/doi/abs/10.1177/1743872110362651
Collier, John. The Pueblo’s Last Stand. San Francisco, CA: Sunset Magazine, February 1923. From University of Utah Western Waters Digital Library. https://collections.lib.utah.edu/details?id=1151862.
Harris & Ewing, photographer. New prohibition law asked for Alaska. Washington D.C. Consumption of liquor by Indians in Alaska under the present law was "legalized murder" made increasingly bad because they were unable to judge its quality, was told to the Senate Indian Affairs Committee today. Prominent Alaskan officials and Indian educators appeared before the committee to urge that a new prohibition law be enacted by Congress to spply in Alaska. In the picture, left to right: Senator Elmer Thomas, Chairman of the Committee; Claude M. Hirst, Director of the Office of Indian affairs in Alaska; and John Collier, U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs. District of Columbia United States Washington D.C. Washington D.C, 1937. [February 2] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016871219/. (Inserted as picture.)
Kehoe, Alice B. A Passion for the True and Just: Felix and Lucy Kramer Cohen and the Indian New Deal. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2016.
Rusco, Elmer R. A Fateful Time: The Background and Legislative History of the Indian Reorganization Act. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2000.
Fisher, Walter L, Robert G Valentine, Issuing Body United States Department Of The Interior, and Printed Ephemera Collection. Indian land for sale: get a home of your own, easy payments. Perfect title. Possession within thirty days. Fine lands in the West. [United States Publisher not identified, 1911] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2015657622/. (Inserted as banner background.)
Ellinghaus, Katherine. Blood Will Tell: Native Americans and Assimilation Policy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/csupomona/reader.action?docID=4882062&query=.
“An Act To conserve and develop Indian lands and resources; to extend to Indians the right to form business and other organizations; to establish a credit system for Indians; to grant certain rights of home rule to Indians; to provide for vocational education for Indians; and for other purposes. ” Statutes at Large, 73rd Congress, Session 2. United States Government Printing Office, Washington DC, 1935. From Library of Congress, The Law Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/73rd-congress/session-2/c73s2ch576.pdf. (Accessable via link, first page as image.)
Harris & Ewing, photographer. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT READS MESSAGE TO 73RD CONGRESS. District of Columbia United States Washington D.C. Washington D.C, 1933. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016883423/. (Inserted as banner background.)
Rusco, Elmer R. A Fateful Time: The Background and Legislative History of the Indian Reorganization Act. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2000.
Satz, Ronald M. “‘Tell Those Gray Haired Men What They Should Know’: The Hayward Indian Congress of 1934.” The Wisconsin Magazine of History 77, no. 3 (Spring 1994): 196-224. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4636500.pdf?ab_segments=0%252Ftbsub-1%252Frelevance_config_with_tbsub&refreqid=excelsior%3A530848df16aa01aa38a8bfd48ada408a.
Taylor, Graham D. The New Deal and American Indian Tribalism: The Administration of the Indian Reorganization Act, 1934-45. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1980.
Harris & Ewing, photographer. Indians view white fathers home in Washington. Leaders of the tribes on the Flathead Indian Reservation of Western Montana take a look at the White House as they visit Washington to be the first tribe to submit a constitution under the terms of the Wheeler-Howard Act. Although these indians are from the Flathead Reservation, they represent the Salish and Kootenai tribes. There have been no Flathead Indians for many years, 10/31/35. District of Columbia United States Washington D.C. Washington D.C, 1935. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016881694/. (Inserted as banner background.)
“[Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes handing first constitution issued under the Indian Reorganization Act to delegates of the Confederated Tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation.]” Photograph. Washington, DC., c1935. From Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division, Lot 12363. https://www.loc.gov/item/96502544/. (Inserted as picture.)
“Constitution and Bylaws of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana.” United States Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs. United States Government Printing Office, Washington DC, 1935. From Library of Congress, American Indian Constitutions and Legal Materials. http://www.loc.gov/law/help/american-indian-consts/PDF/36026096.pdf. (Accessable via link.)
"Living Conditions." Native American Aid. http://www.nativepartnership.org/site/PageServer?pagename=naa_livingconditions.
Crider, John. H. TWO CAMPS FORM OVER INDIAN LAW: Senator Wheeler, Sponsor of Act, Wants It Repealed and New One Drawn COLLIER CITES PROGRESS Conflicting Opinions Indians' Objections INDIAN BUREAU HEAD. New York: New York Times, March 28, 1937. From Proquest. https://search-proquest-com.proxy.library.cpp.edu/hnpnewyorktimes/docview/102232023/DB67BD02340B4806PQ/5?accountid=10357. (Partially inserted as picture.)
Mekeel, Scudder. “An Appraisal of the Indian Reorganization Act.” American Anthropologist 46, no. 2 (April - June 1944): 209-217. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/663080.pdf?ab_segments=0%252Ftbsub-1%252Frelevance_config_with_tbsub&refreqid=excelsior%3Ac423b18cc2c05c86f1264eb29aab3601.
Philip, Kenneth R., ed. Indian Self Rule: First Hand Accounts of Indian-White Relations from Roosevelt to Reagan. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1995. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/csupomona/reader.action?docID=3442860.
Rusco, Elmer R. A Fateful Time: The Background and Legislative History of the Indian Reorganization Act. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2000.
Rothstein, Arthur, photographer. Some of the houses and tents inhabited by the Indians. Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico. Mescalero Apache Reservation Mescalero Apache Reservation. New Mexico United States, 1936. Apr. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017759750/. (Inserted as background banner.)
Satz, Ronald M. “‘Tell Those Gray Haired Men What They Should Know’: The Hayward Indian Congress of 1934.” The Wisconsin Magazine of History 77, no. 3 (Spring 1994): 196-224. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4636500.pdf?ab_segments=0%252Ftbsub-1%252Frelevance_config_with_tbsub&refreqid=excelsior%3A530848df16aa01aa38a8bfd48ada408a.