Native American

Sub-headings:

Native American History

Resources in this category:

Alaskan Native Knowledge Network
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/

"The Alaskan Native Knowledge Network is designed to serve as a resource for compiling and exchanging information related to Alaska Native knowledge systems and ways of knowing. It has been established to assist Native people, government agencies, educators and the general public in gaining access to the knowledge base that Alaaska Natives have aquired through cumulative experience over millennia."

American Folklife Center, Library of Congress: Omaha Indian Music
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/omhhtml/

"Omaha Indian Music features traditional Omaha music from the 1890s and 1980s. The multiformat ethnographic field collection contains 44 wax cylinder recordings collected by Francis La Flesche and Alice Cunningham Fletcher between 1895 and 1897, 323 songs and speeches from the 1983 Omaha harvest celebration pow-wow , and 25 songs and speeches from the 1985 Hethu'shka Society concert at the Library of Congress. Segments from interviews with members of the Omaha tribe conducted in 1983 and 1999 provide contextual information for the songs and speeches included in the collection. Supplementing the collection are black-and-white and color photographs taken during the 1983 pow-wow and the 1985 concert, as well as research materials that include fieldnotes and tape logs pertaining to the pow-wow."

The Arapaho Tribe
http://www.omaha.lib.ne.us/transmiss/congress/arapaho.html

This page has historical information on the Arapaho Tribe and their allies.

California Indian Library Collections
http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/cilc/bibs/toc.html

"The California Indian Library Collections (CILC) was funded with the aim of returning unique cultural materials to California's Native Americans and making the collections available to all citizens through their local libraries. Archived sound recordings, photographs, and textual materials (such as books, journal articles, unpublished manuscripts and field notes, many of which were gathered by Berkeley researchers in the early years of this century) have been duplicated and installed in twenty-one northern and central California libraries. Each county collection contains materials specific to the tribes within that county." This site includes links to tribal bibliographies and a gallery of baskets of Indians of northern and central California.

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
http://www.choctawnation.com/

This site contains information on programs, events, history and governance of the Choctaw Nation.

Citizen Potawatomi Nation
http://www.potawatomi.org/

This is a site dedicated to the history and current status of the Potawatomi Tribe. There are also contacts for the various heads of tribal organizations

Colonists and Native Americans
http://history.hanover.edu/project.html#17

This Website offers historical documents: "Texts and Archives: First Thanksgiving Proclamation (MS State)/ Secondary Sources/ New Meet Old Americans (Knowledge Adventure)/ History of Jamestowne (Jamestowne Society)/ The Real Pocahontas by Jessica Ronky (Times)/ The Chicora Indians (Pride Net)// Resources: Pride Net: Native American Resources/ Native American Legal Resources (WisBar)/" "Texts and Documents" This Website is a part of the Texts and Documents project at Hanover College.

The History of the Cherokee
http://cherokeehistory.com/index.html

Here you can find historical information, images, maps, and genealogy relating to the Cherokee Nation. It also has a comprehensive list of books, newspapers, and Internet links concerning Cherokee History.

Index of Native American Resources on the Internet
http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/

The most comprehensive index of the Native American Electronic Resources which links to high quality informational websites in many subject areas. Site includes biographical profiles of the authors, photos, and lists of awards and publications.

Indian Law Resource Center
http://www.indianlaw.org/

The Indian Law Resource Center is a non-profit law and advocacy organization with the principle goal of assuring "the survival of indigenous peoples, including protection of their land rights, environment, and right to self-determination." The Indian Law Resource Center web site provides information on the organization's casework, archives of their newsletters, and links to "documents and organizations instrumental to winning recognition of indigenous rights."

Labriola National American Indian Data Center
http://www.asu.edu/lib/archives/labriola.htm

"The Labriola National American Indian Data Center, part of the ASU Libraries, is a research collection international in scope that brings together in one location current and historic information on government, culture, religion and world view, social life and customs, tribal history, and information on individuals from the United States, Canada, Sonora, and Chihuahua, Mexico. It disseminates this information through the use of the Internet, computer databases, and CD-ROM."

Lakota Wowapi Oti Kin: Lakota Information Home Page
http://puffin.creighton.edu/lakota/

This is a joint project of Martin Broken Leg and Raymond Bucko, S.J.. Comprehensive list of resources related to Lakota people and culture.

Mohawk Language
http://www.ohwejagehka.com/moh-body1.htm

Mohawk words and phrases in .ra format.

The Mohawk Language Standardization Project
http://www.kanienkehaka.com/msp/msp.htm

"In August 1993, the Mohawk Language Standardisation Conference met at Tyendinaga to decide on a standard, written form of Mohawk. The conference was co-sponsored by the six Mohawk First Nations and supported by the Ontario ministries of Education and Training, of Citizenship, and of Culture, Tourism and Recreation." This is the report of that conference.

Muscogee Creek Nation
http://www.muscogeenation-nsn.gov/

Official site of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma. Includes information about history, current events (festivals) and important people and events. Also has links to other Native American sites and information.

Myths and Legends of the Sioux
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/MclMyth.html

This the online version of a book published in 1916 which gathered Native American myths and legends of the Sioux. The compiler, Marie L. McLaughlin, was a woman "of one-fourth Sioux blood" who was "born and reared in an Indian community".

National Anthropological Archives and Human Studies Film Archives
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/exhibits.htm

Provides access to historical and contemporary anthropological materials on the world's cultures and the history of anthropology.

Native American Authors
http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/

"This website provides information on Native North American authors with bibliographies of their published works, biographical information, and links to online resources including interviews, online texts and tribal websites." Site is browsable by author, title and tribe.

Native American Documents Project
http://www.csusm.edu/nadp/nadp.htm

"The Native American Documents Project is working to make documents about the history of federal policy concerning native peoples more readily available. There are three sets of data at this site: - Indexed Published Reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and the Board of Indian Commissioners for 1871, and two appendices to the board's report. These reports touch on most aspects of Indian policy at that time, and are intended to be the beginning of a complete set of published documents fromt the 1870s. - Ten tables of quantitative data, with explanatory material, about the results of allotment, in the Allotment Data collection. - 111 indexed documents in the Rogue River War and Siletz Reservation collection, most from the 19th century, with explanatory material and a map."

Native American Indian Resources
http://www.kstrom.net/isk/mainmenu.html

Very comprehensive resource with links to major native american authored sites. Including: stories, herbal knowledge, art, astronomy, first nations, native schools, food, and a large page linking to other native sites on the web.

Native American Nations
http://www.nativeculture.com/lisamitten/nations.html

This site "contains links to pages that have either been set up by the nations themselves, or are pages devoted to a particular nation, and are alphabetical by tribal name." Pages maintained by Indian nations or individuals specially marked as such.

Native American Sites
http://www.nativeculture.com/lisamitten/indians.html

Comprehensive index of the Native American Website resources. Well selected and maintained.

Native Languages of the Americas
http://www.native-languages.org/

Operated by a small non-profit, this site has online materials for over 800 indigenous Native American languages across the Western Hemisphere. In addition to the information on the site itself, there is a fairly extensive links section for more about Native American languages.

nativeculture.com
http://www.nativeculture.com/

A comprehensive portal site for Native American resources on the Internet, which annotated links to information about Tribes and Nations, Arts and Expressions, and other learning resources.

NativeWeb Resources
http://www.nativeweb.org/resources/

"NativeWeb strives to obtain links with quality content by and about indigenous peoples from around the world." Their resources section offers thousands of annotated links to web sites, organized by topic, nation, and geographic region.

The Official Site of the Cherokee Nation
http://www.cherokee.org/

This site has information about the administrative, social and education issues for the Cherokee Nation. It also has information on current events and issues.

The Official Website of the Chickasaw Nation
http://www.chickasaw.net/

This site has information on the Chickasaw Nation today, including administrative and current event information. Also includes information on arts and heritage.

Ohwejagehka Iroquois Earth Songs
http://www.ohwejagehka.com/songs.htm

A discussion of the social songs of the Iroquois community complete with recorded examples. Examples include the Standing Quiver, the Moccasin Dance, and the Smoke Dance.

Oneida Indian Nation - Native Foods
http://oneida-nation.net/cookbook/

"Known as the "sustainers of life," the Iroquois consider corn, beans and squash to be special gifts from the Creator. The well-being of each crop is believed to be protected by one of the Three Sister Spirits. Many an Indian legend has been woven around the "Three Sisters" -sisters who would never be apart from one another- sisters who should be planted together, eaten together and celebrated together." These recipes feature the Three Sisters: corn, beans, and squash. They were designed to help people "regain healthy diet and exercise habits by returning to their traditional foods, with the added benefit of current nutrition knowledge, which teaches us how to limit the amounts of fat and salt in our diet."

Oneida Indian Nation - Oneida Nation Homelands
http://www.oneida-nation.net/

This site has information on the Oneida Tribe, its current status and history. Includes annual reports and employment information.

Pow Wows
http://www.powwows.com/

Discusses the history, etiquette, costumes, drums, and music of Pow Wow dancing. It has articles that describe specific women's dances and men's dances. It also features a calendar of events.

Redzone
http://www.redzone.org/

A site created by the Eyak Preservation Council, a grassroots consortium of dedicated local Natives, fishers and world citizens who became activists in the aftermath of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound. This site includes educational resources and maps about the damage done by the oil spill, news and alerts, and information about conservation programs and campaigns.

Southern Native American Pow Wows
http://library.thinkquest.org/3081/

Discusses the songs and song format, drums, dance styles, and arena of Pow Wow dancing. It includes RealAudio sound files of songs and music. There are also many pictures of dance and costumes. Includes a glossary for new terminology and also includes a crafts/how-to section with instructions on how to make Native American craft items.

Teaching Indigenous Languages
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/TIL.html

"The Teaching Indigenous Languages Web Site contains 46 full text papers from indigenous languages conferences that focused on stabilizing, teaching, and revitalizing endangered languages (mostly American Indian languages) held in 1989, 1997, and 1998. It also has full text columns on American Indian/Alaska Native education from the newsletter of the National Association for Bilingual Education from 1990 to the present. There are also links to many other American Indian Education and Bilingual Education sites."