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Native Americans
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Web Sites -- Table of Contents
News
Tribal governments
NativeWeb
Native American Tribal Pages
List of links to tribal government web sites.
Tribal Leaders Directory
Produced
by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, includes tribal leaders and
BIA representatives.
Maintained by Lisa Mitten, Native
American Nations includes links to the web sites
of both recognized and unrecognized tribes, and links to
other sites about the tribes, but not produced by them.
Troy Johnson, a professor at California State University at
Long Beach, maintains a list of tribes
not recognized by the Federal government. It is arranged
by the states in which the tribes are located.
Inter-tribal and other organizations
U.S. government organizations
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Land Management
Bureau of Reclamation
Fish and Wildlife Service
Geological Survey
National Park Service
Others
Census Bureau
Department of Agriculture
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Department of Justice
Environmental Protection Agency
National Indian Gaming Commission
Smithsonian Institution
U.S. Senate
Guides to Federal records
Guides to collections in the National Archives
Legal Sources
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Alaska
Native Claims Settlement Act Resource Center
- American
Indian Law
Findlaw's subject guide to Indian Law includes summaries
of law, links to documents, briefs, articles and books,
message boards, firms online, and a web guide.
- American
Indian Law Review
American Indian Law Review Index Page includes
links to an Articles, Commentaries and Notes Index; an
Author and Book Review Index; a Legislation, Statutes
and Treaties Index; a Subject Index; a Table of Cases;
and a Tribal Index.
- Bureau of Indian Affairs Federal
Acknowledgement Decision Compilation
The database is an online version of the Acknowledgment Decision Compilation (ADC), a record of documents that the Bureau of
Indian Affairs has on file for groups that have gone through the federal recognition process.
- Cornell
Legal Information Institute
Cornell Legal Information Institute provides an excellent
list of virtually all legislation that pertains to Indian
Law with links to the full text of the legislation.
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Court Orders
Relating to Indian Trust Funds
- Early
Recognized Treaties with American Indian Nations
Published by University of Nebraska Libraries Electronic
Text Center. Provides access to the nine federally recognized
Indian treaties that are absent from volume 2 of Indian
Affairs: Laws and Treaties, by Charles J. Kappler
(see below). This site therefore complements the digitized
Kappler collection provided by the Oklahoma State University
Library Electronic Publishing Center. All 375 treaties
are now available online through these two resources.
- Guide
to Law Online: United States, Indians
The Guide to Law Online is a selective, annotated
compendium of Internet links produced by the Law Library
of Congress. In compiling this list, emphasis is on sites
offering the full texts of laws, regulations, and court
decisions, along with commentary from lawyers writing
primarily for other lawyers. Materials related to law
and government that were written by or for lay persons
also have been included, as have government sites providing
general information.
- IBIA
Decisions
This site contains decisions issued
by the Interior Board of Indian Appeals (IBIA) from its
inception in 1970, and includes some decisions of the Interior
Board of Land Appeals, volumes 125-173, and Indian Self-Determination
Act Decisions
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Index
of Native American Legal Resources on the Internet
- Indian
Affairs: Laws and Treaties
Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler. Hosted by
the Oklahoma State University Library. Volumes I through
VII are available on the web both as fully searchable
digitized text and as page images.
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Indian
Land Cessions in the United States: U.S. Serial Set Number
4015
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Indian
Law Resource Center
Legal advocacy for the protection of indigenous peoples'
human rights, cultures, and traditional lands so that Indian
tribes and nations may flourish for generations to come.
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Legal
Information Institute
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National
Indian Law Library
A public law library devoted
to federal Indian and tribal law
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National
Tribal Justice Resource Center
Established by the
National American Indian Court Judges Association
- Native
American Constitution and Law Digitization Project
This Project is a cooperative effort among the University
of Oklahoma Law Center, the National Indian Law Library
(NILL), and Native American tribes providing access to
the Constitutions, Tribal Codes, and other legal documents.
- Native
American Documents Project
This project was begun in 1992 to develop methods for making documents of Federal Indian policy history accessible
by computer. Many documents were taken from microfilmed collections of reports and letters in the National Archives.
Others were taken from official publications, mainly the annual reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
- Navajo-Hopi
Land Commission Papers
Presented by the Fourth World Documentation Project, tis web site has links to the Navajo-Hopi Land Commission Papers.
- Tribal
Court Clearinghouse
The Tribal Court Clearinghouse is designed as a resource
for tribal justice systems and others involved in the
enhancement of justice in Indian country.
- University
of Oklahoma Law Center - Native American Legal Resources
Bibliographies and Resources
- American Indian Art and Design
Links to online exhibitions produced by the Smithsonian Institution
- American Indian History and Culture
Includes reading lists prepared by the National Museum of the American
Indian, Smithsonian Institution.
- Bibliographies
of Northern and Central California Indians
Produced by the California Indian Library Collections Project,
Ethnic Studies Library, U.C. Berkeley
- Bibliography
on Native American History
By Lee Sultzman
- List
of Publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology With
Index to Authors and Titles
Smithsonian Institution Libraries Electronic Edition, 1997
- Annual
Reports of the Bureau of American Ethnology
Digitized
and presented by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
- The
Elkus Indian Papers
The California Academy of Sciences houses a collection of over 3,300 documents related to Indian affairs over the period
1922-1963. These papers came from the estate of Charles de Young Elkus, a San Francisco attorney.
- Living Homes for Cultural
Expression: North American Native Perspectives on Creating Community Museums
produced by National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution. Includes a Tribal Museum Directory (p. 98-119).
- Native American Authors
A list provided by the Internet Public Library. Includes bibliographies of published works,
biographical information, and links to online resources including interviews, online
texts and tribal web sites.
- Native
American Ethnobotany Database
- Native
American Repatriation & Reburial: A Bibliography
Ccompiled by Barb Bocek, Stanford Archaeologist.
- Native
Americans and the Environment
Digital Libraries
- American
Indians of the Pacific Northwest
This collection represents a selection of the collections
of the University of Washington Libraries and the Museum
of History and Industry in Seattle, and the Northwest Museum
of Arts and Culture in Spokane, Washington. It includes
original photographs and documents about the Northwest
Coast and Plateau Indian cultures, complemented by essays
written by anthropologists, historians, and teachers about
both particular tribes and cross-cultural topics. These
cultures have occupied, and in some cases still live in
parts of Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon,
Idaho, and Montana. Maps are available that show traditional
territories or reservation boundaries.
Most of the photographs date from before 1920. Primary
text sources include six Indian treaties negotiated in
1855 and over 3,800 pages from the Annual Reports of
the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of
the Interior from 1851 through 1908. Secondary sources
include 89 articles from the Pacific Northwest Quarterly and
23 papers from the University of Washington Publications
in Anthropology series. A few additional photographs
and articles were sought from other institutions and added
to the collection to complement the topical essays.
- Edward
S. Curtis's The North American Indian: Photographic Images
The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis
is one of the most significant and controversial representations
of traditional American Indian culture ever produced. Issued
in a limited edition from 1907-1930, the publication continues
to exert a major influence on the image of Indians in popular
culture. Curtis said he wanted to document "the old
time Indian, his dress, his ceremonies, his life and manners." In
over 2000 photogravure plates and narrative, Curtis portrayed
the traditional customs and lifeways of eighty Indian tribes.
The twenty volumes, each with an accompanying portfolio,
are organized by tribes and culture areas encompassing
the Great Plains, Great Basin, Plateau Region, Southwest,
California, Pacific Northwest, and Alaska. Featured here
are all of the published photogravure images including
over 1500 illustrations bound in the text volumes, along
with over 700 portfolio plates.
- Electronic
Texts on Native Americans at the University of Virginia Libraries
- History of the American West, 1860-1920
Over 30,000 photographs, drawn from the holdings of the Western History and Genealogy Department
at Denver Public Library, illuminate many aspects of the history of the American West. Most of the
photographs were taken between 1860 and 1920.
- Living Voices
Presented by the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. Provides audio files of
40 Native Americans and Native Hawaiians discussing their
lives.
- Native
American Constitution and Law Digitization Project
Coordinated by the University of Oklahoma Law Library and The National
Indian Law Library of the Native American Rights Fund
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Omaha Indian Music
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.
- Trail
Tribes: History with a Tribal Perspective, along Trails
Followed by Lewis and Clark
Originally produced by the Lifelong Learning Project at the University of Montana
Directories of Internet sites on Native Americans
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