Tribal Law Basics for Legal Writing
Bibliography
Stetson Webinar:
Teaching the Basics of Tribal Law in First-Year Legal
Research and Writing
September 24, 2012
Tonya Kowalski
Professor of Law
Washburn University School of Law
Books
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William C. Canby, Jr., American Indian Law in a Nutshell (5th ed. West 2009)
Matthew L. M. Fletcher, American Indian Tribal Law (Wolters Kluwer 2011)
Stephen L. Pevar, The Rights of Indians and Tribes: The Authoritative ACLU Guide to
Indian and Tribal Rights (NYU Press 2004)
Justin B. Richland & Sarah Deer, Introduction to Tribal Legal Studies (2d ed., AltaMira
Press 2010)
Articles on Tribal Law in LRW Courses
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Barbara P. Blumenfeld, Integrating Indian Law into a First Year Legal Writing Course, 37
Tulsa L. Rev. 503 (2001)
Tonya Kowalski, Demarginalizing Tribal Law in Legal Writing, 25:2 The Second Draft 12
(Fall 2011), available at http://washburnlaw.edu/faculty/kowalski-tonyafulltext/2011-25theseconddraft12.pdf
Tonya Kowalski, The Forgotten Sovereigns, 36 Fla. State U.L. Rev. 765 (2009)
Samantha Moppett, Acknowledging America's First Sovereign: Incorporating Tribal
Justice Systems into the Legal Research and Writing Curriculum, 35 Okla. City U.L. Rev.
(2010)
Articles on Tribal and Diverse Law Across the Curriculum
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Cynthia Ford, Integrating Indian Law into a Traditional Civil Procedure Course, 46
Syracuse L. Rev. 1243 (1996)
Carole Goldberg, Critique by Comparison in Federal Indian Law, 82 N.D. L. Rev. 719, 72735 (2006)
Helen Hershkoff, Integrating Transnational Legal Perspectives into the First Year Civil
Procedure Curriculum, 56 J. Legal Ed. 479 (2006)
Aliza Organick, Tribal Law and Best Practices in Legal Education: Creating a New Path
for the Study of Tribal Law, 19 Kan. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 63 (2009)
Frank Pommersheim, “Our Federalism” in the Context of Federal Courts and Tribal
Courts: An Open Letter to the Federal Courts’ Teaching and Scholarly Community, 71 U.
Colo. L. Rev. 123 (2000)
Articles on Teaching Cultural Literacy
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Susan Bryant, The Five Habits: Building Cross-Cultural Competence in Lawyers, 8 Clinical
L. Rev. 33 (2001)
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Susan Bryant & Jean Koh Peters, Five Habits for Cross-Cultural Lawyering
http://internationallegalpartnership.org/training/morton_cross_cultural_lawyering
(last accessed June 6, 2011)
Nelson P. Miller and Tracey Brame, Equality as Talisman: Getting Beyond Bias to Cultural
Competence as a Professional Skill, 25 T.M. Cooley L. Rev. 99 (2008)
Antoinette Sedillo López, Making and Breaking Habits: Teaching (and Learning) Cultural
Context, Self-Awareness, and Intercultural Communication Through Case Supervision in a
Client-Service Legal Clinic, 28 Wash. U. J.L. & Pol’y 37 (2008)
Carwina Weng, Multicultural Lawyering: Teaching Psychology to Develop Cultural SelfAwareness, 11 Clinical L. Rev. 369 (2005)
Websites
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In Time, Culturally Responsive Teaching:
http://www.intime.uni.edu/multiculture/curriculum/culture/teaching.htm
Legal Writing Institute Diversity Initiatives Committee:
http://www.lwionline.org/committees_and_reports.html
National Center for Cultural Competence: http://nccc.georgetown.edu/
National Indian Law Library: http://narf.org/nill/
National Indian Law Library, Indian Law Reporter: Cumulative Subject Index to Tribal
Court Cases, http://www.narf.org/nill/triballaw/ilr.htm
Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project: http://thorpe.ou.edu/
Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER): http://www.pacer.gov/
Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University Ross Blakley Law
Library—Indian Law Portal:
http://www.law.asu.edu/library/RossBlakleyLawLibrary/ResearchNow/IndianLawPo
rtal.aspx
Tribal Court Clearinghouse, Tribal Court Decisions: http://www.tribalinstitute.org/lists/decision.htm
Turtle Talk: http://turtletalk.wordpress.com/ (blog)
United States Peace Corps & Paul D. Coverdell, Culture Matters Workbook,
http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/educators/enrichment/culturematters/index.html
Westlaw Tribal Court Opinion Databases: Oklahoma Tribal Court Reports (OKTRIB-CS),
West’s American Tribal Law Reporter – Headnotes (AMTRIB-HN)