Indian reservation police

Here are entered works on police, working for the United States government or an Indian tribe, exercising their duties on Indian reservations or in Indian country.
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95003106
- info:lc/authorities/sh95003106
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh95003106#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
Collection Membership(s)
Variants
- Indian agency police
- Indian police force
- Reservation police forces
Broader Terms
- Police
Sources
- found: Work cat.: Account of Patrick H. Winston, Jr., 1887: p. 2, etc. (a United States Indian policeman; Indian police on the reservation)
- found: LC database, April 12, 1995 (Indian police)
- found: Indian police and judges, 1966: p. 39, etc. (agency police; reservation police forces)
- found: The Office of Indian Affairs, 1927: p. 262 (Indian police force "to be employed in maintaining order and prohibiting illegal traffic in intoxicating liquor on the several Indian reservations" authorized by the act of May 27, 1878; this police force is Indian both in composition and duties, only a few white men have occasionally been appointed as officers)
LC Classification
- E98.C87
General Notes
- Here are entered works on police, working for the United States government or an Indian tribe, exercising their duties on Indian reservations or in Indian country.
Change Notes
- 1995-04-12: new
- 1998-01-09: revised

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