AIHEC Virtual Library

AIHEC Virtual Library

The American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) Virtual Library is a collection of resources by for and about Native Americans available online -- selected and reviewed by Tribal College librarians.

New :

Tribal Colleges have access to Ebsco's Environment Complete database.
Learn more about the database here. Off campus users, ask your librarian to contact AIHEC for a password.

Most recent additions to the Virtual Library

American Indian Collections at the University of Minnesota Libraries [BLOG]
Blog by Jody Gray, American Indian Studies Librarian, University of Minnesota Libraries, covering resources useful to American Indian Studies students and researchers.
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/grayjl/amin_umn/
2009-01-12 18:13:32

Large foundations' grantmaking to Native America [eBook][PDF]
by Sarah Hicks and Miriam Jorgensen
"[T]his report uses data compiled from Internal Revenue Service records as reported by the Foundation Center to examine large grants to Native America made by the approximately 900 largest independent, community, operating, and corporate foundations in the United States over the period 1989-2002."
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/hpaied/pubs/documents/LargeFoundationsGrantmakingtoNativeAmerica.pdf
2009-01-12 18:13:32

Sitting Bull's Legacy: The Lakota Sioux leader's relics return to his only living descendants
Ernie LaPointe, , Sitting Bull's great-grandson, talks about the repatriation process and how the story of his famous great-grandfather has been so misunderstood.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/200711-sittingbull.html
2009-01-05 17:56:49

Tongue Tied: : Some 200 Native American languages are dying out and with them valuable history.
A Smithsonian magazine article on the loss of Naive languages, focusing on Johnny Hill Jr., one of the last speakers of Chemehuevi.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/200711-tonguetied.html
2009-01-05 17:54:30

Support for previous versions of the Virtual Library came from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. Technical support was provided by the Internet Public Library.
AIHEC is the American Indian Higher Education Consortium. For information about AIHEC, please visit www.aihec.org

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