It wouldn't be a very long trip, but Cornell has both a strong law school
and American Indian Program, and both faculty and students generally
include some working in the area of Indian Law. (Lest anyone suspect a
conflict of interest, I am only here at Cornell on a one-year visiting
appointment, now ending)
I believe that either the University of New Mexico or University of Arizona
(or perhaps even both) also have strong programs, but haven't been able to
locate my information on them in the last couple of days. The Newberry
Library in Chicago has outstanding archival collections and research
facilities, but Chicago is a large expensive city, which doesn't fit the
secondary concern. Another research center is the Great Lakes Indian
History center at the University of Indiana, in Bloomington; I haven't used
this one, but have heard good things about it.
Good luck finding a place!
Fred
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Frederic W. Gleach (fwg1@cornell.edu)
Anthropology Department, Cornell University
(607) 255-6779
I long ago decided that anything that could be finished in my lifetime was
necessarily too small an affair to engross my full interest --Ernest Dewitt
Burton
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