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Table of Contents
General Collections (below)
Image Galleries
Legal Materials - Laws & Treaties
Speeches & Articles (below)
Bibliographies (below)

General Online Collections

Aboriginal Links: Canada and US
Especially good for Treaties, Fishing Rights, Forestry, and political issues.
By Bill Henderson

Aframeridian Slave Narratives
By Patrick Minges

American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) Virtual Library
"...is a collection of online resources by, for, and about the indigenous peoples of North America and the Pacific."

American Indian Radio on Satellite (AIROS)
"network is a national distribution system for Native programming to Tribal communities and to general audiences through Native American and other public radio stations as well as the Internet."

American Indians of the Pacific Northwest
"This digital collection integrates over 2,300 photographs and 7,700 pages of text relating to the American Indians in two cultural areas of the Pacific Northwest, the Northwest Coast and Plateau. These resources illustrate many aspects of life and work, including housing, clothing, crafts, transportation, education, and employment. The materials are drawn from the extensive collections of the University of Washington Libraries, the Cheney Cowles Museum/Eastern Washington State Historical Society in Spokane, and the Museum of History and Industry in Seattle."
- University of Washington Libraries & American Memory, Library of Congress

Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)

California Academy of Sciences - Dept. of Anthropology

  • Collection Database - (dead link)
    "Current strengths of the collection are general holdings from the U.S. Southwest and the Pacific Islands, and basketry from California. Earlier years of collecting have yielded both ethnographic and archaeological materials from East Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and Central and South America....The database includes digital images of collection objects. Currently there are over 7,000 images available, documenting the areas of strength in the collection. Digital photographing of the remainder of the collection is an on-going project."

Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

The Elkus Indian Papers
"The California Academy of Sciences houses a collection of over 2,000 documents related to Indian affairs over the period 1922-1963."
Includes an online database of the papers, maps of the Southwest and more

Guide to USDA Programs for American Indians and Alaska Natives
Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations, Program Aid 1617.

GALILEO - Online Databases
 University System of Georgia
To access the database below click on Digital Library of Georgia then Databases.

  • Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842

    "This database contains over 1,000 documents and images relating to the Native American population of the Southeastern United States from the collections of the University of Georgia Libraries, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville Library, the Frank H. McClung Museum, and the Tennessee State Library and Archives. The documents are comprised of letters, legal proceedings, military orders, financial papers, and archaeological images relating to Native Americans in the Southeast."

Indian Country Today
"The Nation's Leading American Indian News Source"

Indian Land Cessions in the United States, 1784-1894
U.S. Congressional Documents - United States Serial Set, Number 4015
"...contains the second part of the two-part Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1896-1897. (Part one is printed in United States Serial Set Number 4014.) Part two, which was also printed as House Document No. 736 of the U.S. Serial Set, 56th Congress, 1st Session, features sixty-seven maps and two tables compiled by Charles C. Royce, with an introductory essay by Cyrus Thomas."
From A Century of Lawmaking For a New Nation, Library of Congress

Indianz.Com
"Your news, information, and entertainment resource. Indianz.Com provides up-to-date, relevant resources about Native American / American Indian tribes in the United States and Alaska and First Nations communities in Canada."

Indigenous Language Institute
"...collaborates with indigenous communities to revitalize and perpetuate the languages and culture of the original inhabitants of the Americas."

  • Endangered Languages Database - (dead link)
    "This summary report includes one hundred and nine (109) language researchers reporting on 151 languages/dialects. Language researchers responded to our survey from Australia (3), Belize (1), Canada (8), China (1), Denmark (2), England (5), Germany (2), Hong Kong (1), Japan (1), Mexico (2), the Netherlands (5), Scotland (1), Spain (1), Venezuela (1), and the rest from the United States (75)."
    Linguistic Society of America / Committee on Endangered Languages & their Preservation.
  • Native Languages Revitalization Resource Directory - (dead link)
    "Here you will find information about Native language programs and practitioners, publications, organizations, and a variety of resources for those involved in, or interested in starting, a language revitalization program."

Journal of American Indian Education (JAIE)
Full text of past volumes only
"...is a peer reviewed scholarly journal, which publishes papers specifically related to the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives."

Kacike: Journal of Caribbean Amerindian History and Anthropology

Labriola National American Indian Data Center
Arizona State University
"...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."

Mammoth Trumpet - (dead link) (ejournal)
"...is the quarterly newspaper of the Center for the Study of the First Americans. It reports on research in all sciences pertaining to the study of the peopling of North and South America."

National Academy Press (free downloads)

National Congress of American Indians

Native American Authors
"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. Currently the website primarily contains information on contemporary Native American authors, although some historical authors are represented. The website will continue to expand, adding additional authors, books and web resources."
From the Internet Public Library

Native American Documents Project
"...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...ten tables of quantitative data, with explanatory material, about the results of allotment...111 indexed documents in the Rogue River War and Siletz Reservation collection, most from the 19th century, with explanatory material and a map."
California State University, San Marcos

Native American Ethnobotany
"A Database of Foods, Drugs, Dyes and Fibers of Native American Peoples, Derived from Plants."
By Dan Moerman, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Native American Health History Database
"This Website is a collection of health related Articles and Literature concerning Native Americans. We currently possess copies of approximately 3,300 published articles within the years: 1764 - 1965... Full text articles can not be viewed, but within the 'Search the Database' option we provide the Citation and an Abstract of any particular article."
Health Sciences Center Library, University of New Mexico

Native American Repatriation & Reburial: A Bibliography
Compiled by Barb Bocek, Dept. of Archaeology, Stanford University

Native Americans and the Environment
"...an exhaustive index of web resources, a document archive and over 1,000 publication citations."
By Alx Dark, Center for Conservation

Native Village
"...was created as an educational and current events resource for Native youth, teens, families, educators, and friends. We publish two weekly news editions: Native Village Drum and Native Village Youth and Education News. Each issue shares Indian news from across the Americas and is written in a condensed, easy-to-read format. Native Village libraries house links to quality learning opportunities and websites. Our archives allow you to browse past issues, and we continually update information in other areas to help you stay current with Americas' First Nations and People."

NativeWeb News Digest
Weblog of recent news stories.

Seattle Times - Unearthing Tse-whit-zen
4-Part Special Report, May 22 - May 25, 2005.
"The [Washington] state Department of Transportation uncovered Tse-whit-zen in August 2003, while building a dry dock on the Port Angeles waterfront. After spending about $60 million ó and finding 335 intact skeletons ó the state abandoned the project. The future of the site is unknown."
Part 1: A Culture Emerges ; Part 2: Spirit of Pestilence ; Part 3: A Costly Mistake ; Part 4: Rebirth of a Culture. Sections include: Introduction ; Epilogue ; Study Guide ; Resources ; Multimedia.
Free registration may be required.

Smithsonian Institution - National Museum of the American Indian

  • Living Voice | Voces Vivas
    "...is an audio series in English and Spanish featuring profiles of Native Americans and Native Hawaiians today. People of many ages, traditions and perspectives tell their own stories, reflecting the wide range of contemporary Native experience in Canada, Mexico, Panama, and the US."

TheStranger.com (Seattle)

  • Relevant Contradictions (February 27, 2003)
    In Defense of Humor, Irony, Satire, and a Native American Perspective on the Coming War on Iraq
    By Sherman Alexie

U.S. Census Bureau

U.S. Department of Commerce

  • Economic Development Administration
    • American Indian Reservations and Trust Areas - (dead link)
      "...is a compendium of information about the economic infrastructure of these areas. The material is arranged geographically, and is presented in small files based on location."

U.S. Department of Justice

Speeches & Articles

Camping with the Sioux
Fieldwork Diary of Alice Cunningham Fletcher
"The following text is based on two journals kept by Alice Fletcher during a six-week venture into Plains Indian territory in 1881."
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Chief Joseph, selected statements and speeches by the Nez PercÈ leader (1877-1879)

Chief Red Horse, Minniconjou Lakota, an eyewitness account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1881)

Computers in Libraries

Impressions of an Indian Childhood
 By Zitkala-Sa
Originally published in 1900 in the Atlantic Monthly

Living in Both Worlds: Inupiaq Women and Urban Life
"...adapted from a 'Commentary' article by Nancy Fogel-Chance in the journal Arctic, vol 47. no.4 (December 1994). A more detailed account of this research was published in Arctic Anthropology, vol. 30, No. 1, p p. 94-108, 1993."

Totem Pole Will Carry Blessings to New York
"Lummi master carvers have crafted a healing totem pole they will take across the country this month, with ceremonial stops along the way to seek healing prayers, blessings and songs of elders from at least 25 tribes. The pole will then be given in New York to the families of victims of the terrorist attacks."
- Seattle Times, August 3, 2002

U.S. Census Bureau

Voyage to Another Universe, 1994
 By Karen M. Strom

Chief Seattle's "Ecology" Speech
Chief Seattle and Chief Joseph: From Indians to Icons
University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections

"Chief Seattle's 1854 Oration" - ver. 1
"There is a great deal of controversy surrounding Chief Seattle's speech of 1854. There are many sources of information, various versions of the speech, and debates over its very existence. Please see the links at the end of the speech. Version 1 (below) appeared in the Seattle Sunday Star on Oct. 29, 1887, in a column by Dr. Henry A. Smith."

"Thus Spoke Chief Seattle: The Story of An Undocumented Speech" - (dead link)
Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives and Records Administration, Spring 1985, vol. 18, no. 1. By Jerry L. Clark.

To Requestors of Chief Seattle's "Ecology" Speech
A brief description of the four versions of the famous speech
"From Washington/Northwest Collections, Washington State Library"
Washington State Library, Olympia, Washington letterhead (1993) ; Nancy Zussy, State Library
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Bibliographies

Bibliographies of Northern and Central California Indians

Bibliography of Historical and Contemporary American Indian Gaming
Nick Davis

"I" Is Not for Indian - The Portrayal of Native Americans in Books for Young People
Selective Bibliography and Guide.
Compiled by Naomi Caldwell-Wood & Lisa A. Mitten for the Program of the ALA/OLOS Subcommittee for Library Services to American Indian People, American Indian Library Association.

Navajo Bibliography for Beginners
"Selections made for this bibliography are intended to introduce students to the DinÈ and cover Navajo tribal government, arts and crafts, ceremonies, legends, languages, Code Talkers, education, etc."
Rodgerick Begay

Academic Discussion Lists

H-AMINDIAN
American Indian History and Culture
"...H-AmIndian includes an edited discussion list for scholars, academicians, and Native peoples to consider the history, culture, ideas and events relating to indigenous peoples from the North Pole to Mexico. This project has two websites: this one, which includes materials generated by the ASU [Arizona State University] participants, and one housed at H-NET, which includes the materials generated on the H-AmIndian list."


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