• Acknowledgments


• List of Native Peoples


• List of Documents by Subject


• Introduction


• Documents:


• 1: Great Law of Peace, Gayanashagowa (1000--1525?)


• 2: Laws of Praying Town Indians (1646)


• 3: Laws of the Cherokee Nation (1808-1817)


• 4: The Criminal Code of Tenskwatawa (Shawnee Prophet) (1805?)


• 5: Laws of the Creek Nation (1817-1824)


• 6: Cherokee Constitution (1827)


• 7: Description of Winnebago Government by Caleb Atwater, U.S. Commissioner (1829)


• 8: Laws of the Nez Perce (1844)


• 9: Constitutional Ordinance of the Seneca Nation (1845)


• 10: Constitution of the Seneca Nation of Indians (1848)


• 11: Organization of A New Indian Territory, by George Copway (1850)


• 12: Ottawa Laws (1850)


• 13: Constitution of the "Government by Chiefs" of the Seneca Nation of Indians (1854)


• 14: Chickasaw Nation Constitution (1856)


• 15: Stockbridge and Munsee Tribe Articles of Union and Confederation (1857)


• 16: "Proclamation" of Neutrality by John Ross, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (1861)


• 17: Laws of the Delaware Nation (1866)


• 18: Winnebago Tribe Laws and Regulations (1868)


• 19: Okmulgee Constitution (1870)


• 20: Howard White, U.S. Indian Agent for the Winnebago Agency (1872)


• 21: John S. Wood, U.S. Indian Agent for the Blackfeet Agency (1875)


• 22: J .L. Burchard, U.S. Indian Agent for the Round Valley Reservation (1876)


• 23: Alex G. Irvine, Navajo Indian Agency (1877)


• 24: Objectives of the Indian Delegation to a Bill Authorizing an "Indian Delegate" to the U.S. House of Representatives (1878)


• 25: W. Bird, Agent of the Fort Peck Indian Agency (1878)


• 26: Benjamin M. Thomas, Agent at the Pueblo and Abiquiu Agencies (1879)


• 27: John Young, Agent at Blackfeet Agency (1879)


• 28: Henry R. Mallory, Agent at Colorado River Agency (1879)


• 29: J. A. Stephen, Agent at Standing Rock Agency (1880)


• 30: P. B. Hunt, Agent at Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita Agency (1880)


• 31: Constitutions of the Osage Nation (1861, 1881)


• 32: Laws of the Osage Nation (1882)


• 33: P. B. Sinnett, Agent at Grande Ronde Agency (1884)


• 34: Benjamin W. Thompson, Agent at Sisseton Agency (1884)


• 35: Sisseton-Wahpeton Constitution (1884)


• 36: Constitution of the Sac and Fox Nation (1885)


• 37: Robert L. Owen, Agent at the Union Indian Agency (1886)


• 38: Compact Between the Several Tribes Constituting the International Council in Indian Territory (1886)


• 39: Laws of the Pamunkey Indian Town (1886 or 1887)


• 40: Charles E. McChesney, Agent at the Cheyenne River Agency (1887)


• 41: Robert L. Owen, Agent at the Union Agency (Chickasaw people in Indian Territory) (1888)


• 42: Robert L. Owen, Agent at the Union Agency (Multiple tri