Handbook of Federal Indian Law by Felix S. Cohen

Felix S. Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law

Felix S. Cohen

University of New Mexico Press, 1986 (?)

First Complete reprint, Hardcover, Very Good condition. The Handbook was the first to show how hundreds of years of diverse treaties, statutes, and decisions formed a comprehensive whole. Today, Cohen is credited with creating the modern field of Federal Indian Law. Scarce.

Publisher's Note:

Long out of print since it was originally published in 1942 by the U.S. Government Printing Office, this classic work on Federal Indian law, and the whole legal history of Indian-white relations, is here republished in a facsimile edition. It is, as Felix Frankfurter observed, the only book that has ever made sense and order from "the vast hodgepodge of treaties, statutes, judicial and administrative rulings, and unrecorded practice in which the intricacies and perplexities, confusions and injustices of the law governing Indians lay concealed." ... This handbook should not be confused with the vulgate version issued by the Government Printing Office in 1958, and since then reprinted by two other publishers. That expurgated edition was rewritten, according to its introduction, "for the purpose of foreclosing, if possible, further uncritical use of the earlier [1942] edition by judges, lawyers, and laymen."