Laws and joint resolutions
of the Cherokee Nation, enacted ... 1881-2-3. In Cherokee.
Tahlequah, 1884.
Acts and resolutions of the Cherokee Nation from 1881-1883, translated
into Cherokee.
The Law Library has a rich collection of American
Indian laws and treaties. For example, the Library owns 64 of
the 225 entries in Lester Hargrett's Bibliography of the Constitutions
and Laws of the American Indians.
Hargrett wrote of compilations
of laws translated into the native language, "Almost without
exception, the Indian language version of the laws are rarer than
the English. There are good reasons for this. In the council of
the civilized tribes, although deliberations were bilingual, the
laws were drafted and adopted in English and they were first printed
in that language...Translations into native tongue were made later,
often months afterward, and printed in smaller numbers...."
(Hargrett 19)