United States: Indians And Guns

United States: Indians And Guns Angela Riley, 2011   In this article, I seek to fill a hole in existing legal scholarship by detailing the untold story of the relationship of Indians to guns in a set of crucial law-making moments: at the drafting of the U.S. Constitution and ratification of the Second Amendment; in 1924 as the Indian Citizenship Act was passed; in 1968 when Congress passed the Indian Bill of Rights; and today, where tribal governments still make their own laws and govern...

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