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Badlands National Park, South Dakota; National Park Service.
Badlands National Park, South Dakota; National Park Service.

Web Sites -- Table of Contents

 

News

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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.

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Inter-tribal and other organizations

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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

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Guides to Federal records

Guides to collections in the National Archives

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Legal Sources

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Bibliographies and Resources

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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. Primarytext 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
  • 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

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Directories of Internet sites on Native Americans

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U.S. Department of the Interior

The Interior Library

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Last Updated on 8/04/09

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