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This site is a directory of "Canadian Aboriginal on-line resources, contacts, information, and government programs and services. The portal offers ease of access and navigation to listings of Aboriginal associations, businesses, organizations, bands, communities, groups, news and peoples."

Information about the organization: their history, activities including email campaigns, news, coverage of Human Rights issues, list of AIM chapters and much more.

Alaska Native Knowledge Network

An organization which provides scholarships and other support for the nation's 34 tribal colleges.

The Center dedicated to presenting the world view, spiritual life, customs, traditions andvalues of Native Peoples to the rest of the world. Culture, education, women's issues,and story telling are some of the subjects they focus on.

"First produced in 1973, the American Indian Law Review is published biannually by the College of Law. This unique review offers articles by authorities on American Indian legal and cultural issues, student notes and comments, addresses by noted speakers, and recent developments of interest to tribal attorneys and scholars in Indian law."

Electronic versions of core legal materials. From the Legal Information Institute (LII), a research and electronic publishing activity of the Cornell Law School.

For a description see listing under organizations.

"The American Indian Science & Engineering Society (AISES) is a national, nonprofit organization which nurtures building of community by bridging science and technology with traditional Native values. Through its educational programs, AISES provides opportunities for American Indians and Alaska Natives to pursue studies in science, engineering, and technology arenas. The trained professionals then become technologically informed leaders within the Indian community."

Links to a variety of reference and primary sources.

"This site provides an extensive digital collection of 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."

An active member of the American Indian Movement, social worker and day care teacher, she was found murdered at Pine Ridge Reservation. Her death is a subject of controversy. In-depth biographical material, trial testimony and statements about murder are made available at this site.

This University of Arizona institution is "...is the oldest and largest anthropology museum in the region and brings to life the culture history of the Greater Southwest, from the mammoth hunters to the present, through many ongoing research projects. The museum's rich and varied collections are among the most significant resources in the nation for the study of Southwest anthropology."

Links to listings of galleries, artists, color examples of their work, and biographies of the artists.

"When Congress passed the Bilingual Education Act in 1967, bilingual education was virtually unknown in schools serving American Indian students."

Based on two journals kept by Alice Fletcher during a six-week venture into Plains Indian territory in 1881. From the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

This umbrella site will lead you to a history of the massacre, information about the U.S. soldiers, discussion of awarding them the Medal of Honor and related material.

These sites address the concerns of the Indigenous Peoples of Canada and link to information and full text documents on legal and sovereignty issues,tribal organizations, government-tribal relations, ecology concerns and native media.

Historical Society's home page provides information about the Society, its relationship to the tribe and access to summaries of articles from its publication, Journal of Chickasaw History.

Official home page of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.

Current information about the tribe's government, its business council, and current job listings.

Written by Al Pate, this site provides full text to many chapters of his book on the Coree - the Chicora Nation.

Print and Internet resources for History, Biography and Genealogy.

Arizona State law 41-865

Includes Apology to the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada ,Chief Joseph's Speeches, Human GenomeDiversity Project, Indian Pledge of Allegiance, Indigenous Manifesto Iroquois Constitution, and others...

"An introduction to contemporaty Native American artists in Canada."

Directory of links from the Celebration of Women Writers site.

Newletter, links, and bibliography from an organization whose aim is "to raise awareness of endangered languages, both inside and outside the communities where they are spoken, through all channels and media."

The Fourth World Journal (FWJ) is the world's leading publication for ideas and analysis about and by writers from some of the world's more than six thousand Fourth World nations.

Full text of a wide variety of documentsstatements and messages concerning many political issues.

Directory of links to texts, commentaries, other agencies, and additional online resources.

The best way to access information about American Indians in Texas is to use the search box.

"Through applied research and service, the Harvard Project aims to understand and foster the conditions under which sustained, self-determined social and economic development is achieved among American Indian nations."

The untold story of the first Native American encounter in 1492, an essay by Chief Petro Guanikeyu Torres.

An organization whose "mission is to create awareness and support for Native environmental issues and to develop needed financial and political resources for the survival of sustainable Native communities. Honor the Earth develops these resources by using music, the arts, the media, and Indigenous wisdom to ask people to recognize our joint dependency on the Earth and be a voice for those not heard."

Access to Native American artists arranged by medium,and to artist's cooperatives and directories was made available by Karen M. Strom. This is a very comoprehensive listing.

"The Department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC)s National Art Collection of Indian (First Nations) and Inuit art represents works of art by Canadas most prominent Indian and Inuit artists as well as works by young emerging and mid-career artists. INACs collection of over 4,000 works includes regional representation from across Canada and representation of all major art media forms, such as basketry, beadwork, carvings, ceramics, drawings, installation art, paintings, photography, sculpture and textiles dating from the early 1960s to the present."

Specializing on the Southwestern United States, Indian House has an extensivecatalog featuring dance and ceremonial songs from the the Pueblo, Navajo and ZuniIndians.

Over 1500 digitized images from the 1870s to the 1960s. Searchable by subject, personal name, photographer or artist, date, or type of material.

Current stories, a resource directory featuring a tribal directory and assorted links, and "trading post" whose profits help to support the programs of the American Indian Heritage Foundation.

"This site is dedicated to information about law and legal issues related to indigenous peoples of the world." Although this page sometimes highlights items of urgent or special importance, all material is otherwise organized under the following categories: Law & Legal Issues Cases & Controversies Government Documents and SourcesInternational Documents and Sources Speeches, Articles & Essays Topical Reference Sites.

"The IAAW is a non-profit organization, dedicated to the promotion, improvement and self-fulfillment of Aboriginal women within the concept of self-government and community, recognizing the Strength and Beauty of All Aboriginal Women."

In Santa Fe, New Mexico.

"The Iowa Archeological Society was established in 1951 by Iowans interested in preserving and studying Iowa's prehistoric and early historic heritage. Its aims are to gather, record, publish and interpret archaeological information in cooperation with career archeologists in the region."

Searchable online version of the 7 vol. work ompiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler, covering the years 1902 to 1971.