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ARTS & CRAFTS

American Indian Links Page
http://www.manataka.org/page12.html
Categories include: art/jewelry, business development, clothing, crafts and supplies, culture/poems/ spirituality, events/powwows, genealogy, herbs/plants, laws/treaties, music, news sources, federally recognized and unrecognized tribes.

Index of Native American Artists on the Internet
http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/indices/NAartists.html
Contemporary artists are listed alphabetically under the following categories: painters; sculptors; potters; jewelers; carvers; basket weavers; beaders; sand painters; katsina carvers; weavers; installation artists; photographers; computer artists; furniture; fashion, tradition art; and other.  You can also find information on artists' cooperatives, as well as museums, galleries, and art exhibits that showcase their art.

Indian Arts and Crafts Association
http://www.iaca.com/
The purpose of this  international organization is to promote, preserve, and protect current native American art. Site includes helpful pointers for the individual interested in collecting American Indian art, and information on winners of IACA's art competitions.

NativeTech
http://www.nativetech.org/
Focuses on Native American art and technology, primarily from the Eastern Woodlands region. "The web site is organized into categories of Beadwork, Birds & Feathers, Clay & Pottery, Leather & Clothes, Metalwork, Plants & Trees, Porcupine Quills, Stonework & Tools, and Weaving & Cordage." Also available on request, are 35 pamphlets detailing the historical background and development, as well as instructions and patterns for individual crafts.

AUTHORS

Native American Authors
http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/
"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."

Native American Authors--Teacher Resources
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/natauth.htm
Posted  by the Internet School Library Media Center. Includes "biography, bibliography, lesson plans, e-texts and critical reviews of selected authors whose works are taught in the public schools or at the university level."

BOOKS

The electronic books listed below are available through the CCM Library Catalog

DATABASES

JSTOR

GENERAL SOURCES

HISTORY

First Nations Histories
http://www.tolatsga.org/Compacts.html
The aim of this site is to "encompass approximately 240 tribal histories (contact to 1900). They will be
limited to the lower 48 states of the U.S. but also include those First Nations from Canada and Mexico that had important roles (Huron, Micmac, Assiniboine, etc.)." The site includes a comprehensive bibliography of sources used in the above histories, an excellent Index, and is keyword searchable.

Native American History
http://cobalt.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~krkvls/history.html
Pre- and post-contact history, e-texts, written documents and oral history, timelines, maps,  general and individual tribal histories, and  statistical sources.

Native American History
http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/tm/native.html
General histories, tribal and regional histories, electronic texts, and images.

Teaching Children United States History with Timelines : Native Americans
http://inquiryunlimited.org/timelines/histNatAm.html

JOURNALS

Social Sciences: Gender & Ethnic Studies: Ethnic & Race Studies

http://wc5ca4yl9r.search.serialssolutions.com/?V=1.0&L=WC5CA4YL9R&N=100&S=SC&C=SO0431

LANGUAGES

Native American Languages
http://cobalt.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~krkvls/lang.html
Statistics, discussions, publications, maps, online dictionaries,  word lists and fonts,  all dealing with American Indian languages. While some of the publication links are outdated,  the online dictionaries and language fonts are particularly useful for anyone interested in studying native American languages.

Teaching Indigenous Languages
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/TIL.html
62 full-text articles from "annual conferences started in 1994 at Northern Arizona University focusing on the linguistic, educational, social, and political issues related to the survival of the endangered indigenous languages of the world."  A very thoughtful and  thorough site with excellent links..

LAWS & TREATIES

American Indian Law
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/indian.html
Federal, state, and international material, from the Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School.

Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/
Kappler's original work "is an historically significant, seven volume compilation of U.S. treaties, laws and executive orders pertaining to Native American Indian tribes. . . .in high demand by Native peoples, researchers, journalists, attorneys, legislators, teachers and others of both Native and non-Native origins." Documents posted here focus on treaties dealing with the 5 tribes most relevant to Oklahoma history.

Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project
http://thorpe.ou.edu/
The University of Oklahoma Law Center, the National Indian Law Library (NILL), and Native American tribes cooperate here to provide codes, constitutions, treaties, Indian land titles, and treaties.

LEGENDS, FOLKLORE & MYTHOLOGY

The Encyclopedia of Hotcâk (Winnebago) Mythology
http://hotcakencyclopedia.com
An excellent site compiled and edited by Richard Dieterle at the University of Minnesota. Stories and their multiple versions (can be as many as 7), are followed by links to similar stories from other tribes, stories with similar themes, and stories with similar characters, and notes.  In addition, there’s an illustrated glossary of terms, a glossary of Indian nations, a pronunciation guide, a map section, a catalogue of story types, and a catalogue of themes.

Harry Hoijer's Ciricahua and Mescalero Apache Texts
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/apac
Apache texts are accompanied by parallel English translations, followed by Linguistic Notes.  User can download Apache fonts.

Tales of the North American Indians, by Stith Thompson
 http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/tnai
An online version of this text published in 1929 by the University of Indiana Press, Bloomington. Nine chapters group tales thematically—mythical, trickster, hero, etc.

LITERATURE

Index of Native American Electronic Text Resources on the Internet
http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/indices/NAetext.html
Books, journal and newspaper articles, speeches and interviews, by contemporary artists.

Storytellers: Native American Authors Online
http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/
"This site was conceived with a very particular aim: to make the writing of modern Native American authors, particularly the poets, both more visible and more widely available. . .the sites residing on this server have been made with the collaboration of the authors. The authors see the sites before they are made public, edit these pages, contribute additional material, and select, or at least help to select, their work which is made available to be read online. . .They also maintain the copyright to all of their own material. "

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY  

American Indian Spirituality
http://www.tahtonka.com/religion.html
Nicely organized site of links to spirituality.

TRIBES

Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian
http://curtis.library.northwestern.edu/curtis/browsetribes.html
"This page is a gateway to information concerning approximately 80 western Native American tribes, visited and photographed by Edward S. Curtis from 1890 to 1930, taken from The North American Indian, Curtis' massive lifework. The North American Indian consists of 20 volumes of text, describing in detail all aspects of each Native American tribe's life and customs."

Native Nations: Official and Unofficial Tribal Sites
http://www.kstrom.net/isk/tribes/tribes.htm
Includes an excellent map section and a contact list for tribes.

Tribes, States and Government Agency
http://members.aol.com/bbbenge/newlinks.html
When available, cultural, historical, literary, biographical, genealogical, bibliographic material for thirty-six north American tribes is given. In addition, you can find information here on general topics--anything from adoptions to the Trail of Tears.

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