Calloway, Colin G. The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Deloria, Philip J. Playing Indian. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

Wilkinson, Charles. Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2005.

These Praeger “Companion Readers” provide a selection of essays by well known scholars:

Evans, Sterling. American Indians in American History, 1870-2001. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002.

Meyer, John M., ed. American Indians and U.S. Politics. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002.

For an overall discussion of the relationship between these tribal nations and the federal government, see:

Prucha, Francis Paul. The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians, 2 vols. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984.

Books that examine government-tribal relations in specific periods are:

Clarkin, Thomas. Federal Indian Policy In The Kennedy And Johnson Administrations, 1961-1969. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001.

Holm, Tom. The Great Confusion in Indian Affairs: Native Americans & Whites in the Progressive Era. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005.

American Indian land rights lay at the core of many disputes between European Americans and indigenous nations. These books describe the legal and judicial processes:

Banner, Stuart. How The Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.

Marks, Paula Mitchell. In A Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and Survival. New York: William Morrow, 1998.

The recent phenomenon of casinos on tribal reservations and its role in reshaping Indian life are surveyed in:

Light, Steven Andrew, and Kathryn R.L. Rand. Indian Gaming and Tribal Sovereignty: The Casino Compromise. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005.

Josephy, Alvin M., et al., eds. Red Power: The American Indians' Fight for Freedom. 2nd ed. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. This is a good documentary history of the subject.

The often brutal legacy of the system of boarding schools created to “educate” American Indian children is examined in:

Coleman, Michael C. American Indian Children at School, 1850-1930. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993.

Reyhner, Jon Allan, and Jeanne Eder. American Indian Education: A History. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004.

These authors survey the history of important cases involving American Indians before the federal courts:

Wunder, John R. "Retained By The People": A History Of American Indians And The Bill Of Rights. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Wilkins, David E. American Indian Sovereignty and The U.S. Supreme Court: The Masking Of Justice. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997.

The essays in this book discuss the current movement within Indian societies to reform and strengthen their own tribal governments:

Lemont, Eric D., ed. American Indian Constitutional Reform and the Rebuilding of Native Nations. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. A collection of essays.

Internet Resources:

The Wikipedia entry for American Indian and Alaskan Native peoples is good:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States

Be warned that many of the links for this page won’t work. This seems all too common among websites dealing with these tribal histories.

American Memory has six collections with special emphasis on American Indians. Here’s the search screen for that group:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=

The National Museum of the American Indian is comparatively new, but they have a fine selection of “online exhibitions” up and running already:

http://www.nmai.si.edu/subpage.cfm?subpage=exhibitions&second=online

The Smithsonian’s Webpage also offers good links within all of its member-museums:

http://www.si.edu/history_and_culture/american_indian/

Not surprisingly, the Eric Digest has good suggestions for teaching young children about American Indians:

http://www.ericdigests.org/1996-4/native.htm

and for using Native American and Alaskan Native literature for teaching high school students:

http://www.ericdigests.org/1992-2/natives.htm

The Organization of American Historians has made Julie Davis’s recent essay on “American Indian Boarding School Experiences: Recent Studies from Native Perspectives” freely available on the Web:

http://www.oah.org/pubs/magazine/deseg/davis.html

Arizona State’s Website has a good page on sources for study of the boarding schools:

http://www.asu.edu/lib/archives/boardingschools.htm

Be sure to follow all of the links there. They include materials such as this one, mounted to help students in a Modern American Poetry class at the University of Illinois:

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/erdrich/boarding/index.htm

Our reliable friends at American Memory provide a lesson plan (grades 6-9) on the boarding schools:

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/01/indian/overview.html

Connecticut’s Mashantucket Pequot nation used part of the revenues from its “Foxwoods” casino to create a museum and research library for the study of American Indian history and culture. Their website includes this history of the tribe and its efforts to reestablish itself as a self-sustaining society. Be sure to follow the links:

http://www.pequotmuseum.org/TribalHistory/TribalHistoryOverview/

These two websites are invaluable for surveying the history of American Indian nations’ relationship with the government of the United States. The first, from Humboldt University in California, provides good historical introduction as well as chronology of pertinent federal statutes and court and military and political events having an impact on government-American Indian relations. The links from this chronology aren’t all that you could wish, but it’s a very good starting point:

http://sorrel.humboldt.edu/%7Ego1/kellogg/NativeRelationship.html

The Indian Law Office of Wisconsin Judicare a more modest page, listing only U.S. Supreme Court decisions relating to American Indian issues, but it’s clear and to the point – with links to the official records for each case:

http://www.judicare.org/sct.html

If you just want cases, their dates, and links to official records, use the Wisconsin Judicare site.