Advanced Search Help

Our advanced search for Indian law updates offers several options to help make your search more precise and to get more accurate results.

General Information

You can reach our advanced search page by clicking on "Advanced Search" near the Indian Law Updates search box located on our Articles & Writings page, our Indian Law Updates Archives page, and other pages throughout our websites.

With Advanced Search, you can search for Indian law updates:

• containing all the words you type
• containing the exact phrase you type
• containing at least one of the words you type
• not containing the words you type
• written or posted by one or more specific attorneys
• wretten or posted within a period of time

You can use any one of the search options in the Advanced Search, multiple ones, or all of them. For example, you can only select names of one or more attorneys without using any search terms to simply retrieve every Indian law update posted by those attorneys or select a time frame without any search terms to retrieve every Indain law update posted within the time you select.

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Use of Boolean Operators

Boolean Operators ('+', '-', 'OR', etc.) are not supported on our Advanced Search page since the Advanced Search itself reflects a boolean search. If you want to use boolean operators, you should use our standard search for Indian law updates.

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Word variations/Stemming

As with the standard search for our Indian Law Updates, words are automatically stemmed. Thus, when appropriate, your search will look for not only the exact words you type, but also for words similar to the ones you type. For example, if you search for Indian, articles containing the word "Indians" will also be returned. Similarly, a search for legislation would include "legislate," "legislating," "legislated," "legislature," and so forth. However, words included as an exact phrase in the Advanced Search are not stemmed.

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Ignoring Common Words

When searching our Indian law updates, certain common words and certain characters like "#," "*," and "&" are excluded because they tend to slow down your search without improving the results.

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INDIAN LAW UPDATES

Democratic Presidential Candidates to Debate in Indian Country

The Indigenous Democratic Network is going to host a Democtraic Presidential Debate in Indian Country called Prez on the Rez. Representatives of the Network are still deciding on a location, but have narrowed... more »

Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation v. Wagnon, 10th Cir. (Feb. 6, 2007)

After remand from the United States Supreme Court to reconsider its decision requiring the State of Kansas to acknowledge and respect vehicle license plates and registrations issued by the Prairie Band... more »

Native Languages Legislation Passes Congress

Congress passed the Esther Martinez Native American Languages Preservation Act of 2006, sending it to the President for signature. The Act provides for the revitalization of Indian languages through support... more »

Tsosie v. United States, 452 F.3d 1161 (10th Cir. 2006)

The family of a deceased member of the Navajo Nation filed an action against the United States claiming that the Indian Health Service ("IHS") was negligent in failing to diagnose the hantavirus. The Tenth... more »