New Native American Law Database

ProQuest Indian Claims Insight allows researchers to search Indian claims content in unprecedented ways including keyword, full text, docket number, and more.  Content includes decisions, transcripts, docket books, journals of the Indian Claims Commission, a judicial panel for relations between the U.S. Government and Native American tribes; and related statutes and congressional publications.

Content includes:

• Pre-1948:  claims presented to Congress and/or brought before the Court of Claims;
• 1948-1978:  Indian Claims Commission, including briefs, docket books, decisions, expert testimony, oral transcripts;
• Post-1978:  Claims brought before the US Court of Claims (through 1982) and US Court of Federal Claims (through 2006); documents related to post-2006 settlement of claims; legislative histories and congressional publications directly related to Indian claims, including congressional publications indexed by docket numbers; important Supreme Court decisions; and maps.

ProQuest Indian Claims Insight is available at libraries on the U of M Twin Cities campus.  Remote access is available to U of M Twin Cities students, faculty and staff.

For more information on Indian Claims Insight, consult the ProQuest's LibGuide to Indian Claims Insight and ProQuest's Historical Overview of the Indian Claims process.