Although you can use any of the resources on this guide to pick a topic, these are some introductory resources that help you to get the lay of the land and see what issues are current. You can come back to this page throughout your research process to get clarity on a particular concept using the encyclopedia and dictionaries, or to run a broad search once you have a clearer idea of your topic.
Recent or Upcoming Conferences will reflect what scholars and practitioners are focusing on currently.
The links below provide access to a general search in news sources for Native OR Trib! OR Indigenous sorted by date so you can see the most recent results. You can modify the search to look for key words more specific to your topic of interest.
The Encyclopedia of Native American Legal Tradition by 
Encyclopedia of United States Indian Policy and Law SET by 
Native Americans and the Law: a dictionary by 
You may want to review recent articles published in these journals to see what issues are topical. What have issues have scholars and practitioners been engaged with in recent years?
The links below provide access to a general search in the journal for Native OR Trib! OR Indigenous sorted by date so you can see the most recent results. You can modify the search to search for these terms in the title by searching within for TI(Native OR Tribe OR tribal OR Indigenous) in Westlaw resources or by title(Native OR Tribe OR tribal OR Indigenous) in Lexis resources.