Most indian law text books take a doctrinal ie boring approach to the interesting area of indian law most legal subjects are taught doctrinally although there has been signifigant reform in this area jos approach is more contextual and deals with a broader range of issues not all of which are legal issues prof carrillo studied at stanford with lawrence freidman and with . Readings in american indian law covers contemporary issues of identity and tribal recognition reparations for historic harms the valuation of land in land claims the return to tribal owners of human remains sacred items and cultural property tribal governance and issues of virtually ignored is the robust and growing body of scholarly literature analyzing and contextualizing these primary . This selection of works many by native american scholars introduces selected topics in federal indian law readings in american indian law covers contemporary issues of identity and tribal recognition reparations for historic harms the valuation of land in land claims the return to tribal owners of human remains sacred items and cultural property tribal governance and issues of . Readings in american indian law recalling the rhythm of survival by carrillo jo 1959 publication date 1998 topics indians of north america publisher philadelphia temple university press collection inlibrary printdisabled internetarchivebooks china digitizing sponsor kahle austin foundation contributor internet archive language english includes bibliographical references p 329 334