Benefits of Indigenous-Inclusive Citation

Potential Benefits of Inclusive CItation

  • Increased citation to tribal constitutions, codes, and case law

  • Increased findability

  • Helps law students without prior exposure to tribal courts or governments to understand our American justice system

  • Prevents "othering" of tribal law and tribal nations

Problems with Current Bluebook Rules

  • The current Bluebook rules leave law students (and attorneys) with an incomplete knowledge of US justice system

  • The current Bluebook rules may reduce citation to sources of tribal law

  • Current Bluebook rules prevent full engagement with tribal law materials in legal scholarship, bar publications, and other published materials.

  • Law librarians have no consistent rules to point to for uniform citation for tribal law materials