Jewels in the Crown: American Indian Law

Report of the Committee... Milledgeville, 1832

The Pulling Collection includes an extensive set of material on American Indian law, with a wide array of treaties, tribal laws and constitutions. The collection documents very well the removal of tribes to Indian Territory, and reveals some of the culture of a wide variety of tribes, seen through laws and constitutions. Taken together the collection of American Indian law captures many of the key moments in US-Indian relations between the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and represents an excellent resource for research.

Report of the Committee to Whom was Referred … Milledgeville, GA, 1832.

Letter of the Cherokee Delegation to the President of the United States … Washington, D.C., 1896.

[Laws of the Cherokee Nation: Adopted by the Council at Various Periods].  Tahlequah, 1852.

Decisions of the United States Courts in Indian Territory … Washington, D.C., 1899.

Chippewa Indians in Minnesota: Letter from the Secretary of War … Washington, D.C., 1892.

   - Ryan Greenwood, Curator of Rare Books and Special Collections