1940's Government and Politics | "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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