American Decades
"Indian Self-Government"
Essay
By: Felix S. Cohen
Date: 1949
Source: Cohen, Felix S. "Indian Self-Government." American Indian, 1949. Reprinted In Red Power: The American Indians' Fight for Freedom, second edition. Edited by Josephy, Alvin M., Jr., et al. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 1999, 69–72.
About the Author: Felix S. Cohen (1907–1953) was a distinguished legal theorist and an activist for Native American rights. From 1933 to 1948 he served as an assistant solicitor with the U.S. Department of the Interior, where he worked on American Indian issues. He later entered private practice and taught law at the City College of New York and Yale Law School. As an attorney and author he worked with the Association on American Indian Affairs until his death in 1953. He is best known for his influential book Handbook of Federal Indian Law (1942).
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1940's Government and Politics Primary Sources
- "The Four Freedoms"
- "Franklin D. Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor Speech"
- Letter from James Y. Sakamoto to President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- The Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority
- "Letters from Los Alamos"
- The Road to Serfdom
- "Serve Your Country in the WAVES"
- "Charter of the United Nations Preamble"
- "President Harry S. Truman's Address Before a Joint Session of Congress, March 12, 1947"
- The Testimony of J. Edgar Hoover Before the House Un-American Activities Committee
- "Address by General George C. Marshall Secretary of State of the United States at Harvard University, June 5, 1947"
- "Dewey Defeats Truman"
- "Communists Should Not Teach in American Colleges"
- "Wipe Out Discrimination"
- "Indian Self-Government"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
