Native Americans
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An online exhibit of 13 portraits of native Americans from the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. Each image is acompanied by a brief biographical sketch of the subject of the portrait.
Native American Rights Fund (NARF)
Since 1971, the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) has provided legal assistance to Indian tribes, organizations, and individuals nationwide who might otherwise have gone without adequate representation. Website. electronic | Electronic (Form).
Contributor:
Native American Rights Fund
Date:2002-08-03
Native American Boarding Schools
A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring education and assimilation of Indian peoples from the 1880-1920s. This set also includes a Teacher's Guide with historical context and teaching suggestions. Photos, early film footage, federal government reports, cartoons, and maps tell the complex tale of the efforts to assimilate Native Americans through education
Date:1880
Web Archive
Native American Law Blog
Providing information and news on Native American legal developments. Website. electronic | Electronic (Form).
Date:2008-11-07
Collection
Stereographs of Native Americans
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6 photographic prints on stereo cards : stereograph, albumen ; 9 x 18 cm. | Photographs show a Native American woman nursing a baby in a tepee and Native American men looking at a gun and posing in front of a tepee.
Contributor:
Barker, George
Date:1894
Photo, Print, Drawing
[Elderly Native American woman]
1 photograph : print ; mount 9 x 18 cm (stereograph format) | Photograph shows portrait of elderly Native American woman, probably Dakota.
Native American nations
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Provides access to World Wide Web (WWW) sites about individual Native American Indian nations including the Apache, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Hopi, Iroquois, Lakota/Dakota, Mohawk, Navajo, and Ojibwe/Chippewa tribes, and the Alaska natives. Features additional links to information on Native American organizations and institutions, languages, media, festivals, performing arts, and businesses.
Contributor:
Mitten, Lisa A.
Date:1995
Book/Printed Material
Native American authors
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Provides information on Native American authors from North America. Includes bibliographies of the writers' published works, biographical information, and links to online resources that feature interviews, online texts, and tribal Web sites. Searchable by author, title, or tribe.
Native American directory
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Annotated listing of Internet sites of concern to Native American tribes in the United States and Canada. Includes tribal and regional organizations, history, museum, and cultural sites, and documentary resources.
Native American stickball players
2 photoprints : gelatin silver ; 13 x 18 cm. or smaller. | Group portraits of Native American stickball players dressed in ribbon work loincloths and holding racquets and stetson style hats. Probably photographed in Oklahoma.
Contributor:
Farnum, G. H. (George H.)
Date:1924
Film, Video
Native Americans, Disability & Employment
Information on the Tribal Outreach Program of the National Council on Disability and insights from the experiences of Native Americans specialists in employment and disability issues. Speakers included Gerrie-Drake Hawkins, Cinda Hughes and August Martin.
Date:2014-11-13
Collection
Postcards of Native Americans
22 prints (postcards) : photolithograph, color ; 14 x 8 cm. or smaller. | Postcards depicting scenes of Native American life and portraits of Native Americans. Includes images of Navajo woman weaving a blanket, a Pima baby, babies in cradleboards, a woman at Isleta Pueblo, Pueblo women selling pottery at a train, a Ute man in a feather headdress, and a Hopi man smoking...
Native American portraits
21 photoprints : gelatin silver ; 25 x 18 cm. or smaller. | Studio portraits taken at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904 of Native American leaders including Apache chief Geronimo, Dakota leaders Hollow Horn Bear, American Horse, and Jack Red Cloud; and Cheyenne chief Wolf Robe. Clothing of sitters includes feather headdresses, beaded vests and shirts, and peace medals.
Contributor:
Wyman, H. W.
Date:1904
Event
Conversation: Native American History
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:55 pm -
2:45 pm
EDT
Colin G. Calloway discusses "The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans and the Birth of the Nation" (Oxford University) and David Treuer discusses "The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present" (Riverhead) in a panel conversation moderated by Gal Beckerman. The History & Biography Stage is sponsored by Wells Fargo.
Collection
Native American portraits
7 photoprints : gelatin silver ; 32 x 26 cm. or smaller. | Portraits of Native American men and women, probably Ojibwa and Siksika (Blackfoot). Includes images of Ojibwa woman making birchbark vessels and boiling syrup, Ojibwa man in canoe, and Siksika men in "medicine lodge" and people on horseback with travois.