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Resources:
The
Curtis
Collection
http://www.curtis-collection.com/index.html
This
site
is
divided
into
two
parts:
-
Educational
TRIBAL
SUMMARIES
It
is
a
"gateway
to
information
concerning
approximately
80
western
Native
American
tribes,
visited
and
photographed
by
Edward
Sheriff
Curtis
from
1890
to
1930."
There
are
20
volumes
of
information
here!
The
site
contains
information
about
the
languages,
dress,
culture,
religion,
dwellings,
etc.
for
all
the
tribes
listed.
- The
GALLERY
contains
lots
and
lots
of
pictures.
American Memory Collections:
-
American Indiana of the Pacific Northwest
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~deban/feedingmovieindex.html
Contains
2,300 photographs and 7,700 pages of text all of which can be search
by keyword, browse by subject or geographic location. Also included
are ten essays on specific tribal groups and on cross-cultural topics.
-
History of the American West
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/codhtml/hawphome.html
Shows the lives of Native Americans from more than forty tribes living
west of the Mississippi River between 1860 to 1920.
-
Edward
S.
Curtis's
_The
North
American
Indian_
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/curthome.html
The photos and portfolio portray the traditional customs and lifeways
of eighty Indian tribes from the Great Plains, Great Basin, Plateau
Region, Southwest, California, Pacific Northwest, and Alaska.
Oneida Indian
Nation - Culture & History
http://oneida-nation.net/historical.html
Here is information on the clans of the Oneida Indian Nation, recipes
for the "Three Sisters" [corn, beans, and squash], information on the
oral history and language of the Oneida Indian Nation, Iroquois
legends and more.
National
Museum
of
the
American
Indian
http://www.nmai.si.edu/
The
National
Museum
of
the
American
Indian
is
part
of
the
Smithsonian
Institution.
Included
on
this
site
are
exhibition
guides;
Conexus
("NMAI
Conexus
is
a
pilot
project
to
test
ways
of
using
the
World
Wide
Web
to
share
some
of
our
resources
beyond
the
Museum's
walls.
It
is
a
Web
site
with
a
"window"
through
which
people
can
view
events
from
the
Museum."),
a
virtual
exhibition
tour;
events
calendar;
and
descriptions
of
the
publications
and
research
collections
of
the
museum.
A
Critical
Bibliography
of
North
American
Indians
http://nmnhwww.si.edu/anthro/outreach/Indbibl/bibliogr.html
The
Smithsonian
Institution
has
compiled
an
annotated
list
of
books
for
students
about
North
American
Indians
that
teachers
and
parents
can
use
to
correct
long-held
stereotypes
about
Native
American
culture.
The
bibliography
is
broken
down
by
geographic
area,
and
each
entry
includes
publication
information,
suggested
grade
level,
and
an
extensive
annotation.
Evaluation
criteria
and
resources
for
adults
are
included
in
the
introduction.
Federally
Recognized
Tribes
1996
http://www-libraries.colorado.edu/ps/gov/us/fedrec.htm
This
site
lists
the
federally
recognized
tribes
in
the
United
States.
By
using
the
Edit/
Find
in
Page
one
may
see
if
the
name
being
used
for
a
tribe
is
a
recognized
one.
American
Indian
Studies
http://www.csulb.edu/projects/ais/
Prof.
Troy
Johnson
of
the
American
Indian
Studies
Program
has
developed
this
site
at
California
State
University,
Long
Beach
California.
The
site
is
"dedicated
to
the
presentation
of
unique
artwork,
photographs,
video
and
sound
recordings
which
accurately
reflect
the
history,
culture
and
richness
of
the
Native
American
experience
in
North
America
and
has
been
expanded
to
include
Indian
people
of
Central
America
and
Mexico."
Native
American
Sites
http://www.nativeculture.com/lisamitten/indians.html
This
site
is
a
personal
web
page
of
a
librarian
at
the
University
of
Pittsburgh
whose
"...goal
is
to
provide
access
to
home
pages
of
individual
Native
Americans
and
Nations,
and
to
other
sites
that
provide
solid
information
about
American
Indians."
The
site
has
a
very
good
annotated
directory
that
is
divided
into
nine
categories,
including
nations
and
languages.
American
Indians
and
the
Natural
World
http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmnh/exhibits/north-south-east-west/
This
site
is
an
exploration
of
four
tribes
of
Native
Americans:
the
Tlingit
of
the
Northwest
Coast,
the
Hopi
of
the
Southwest,
the
Iroquois
of
the
Northeast,
and
the
Lakota
of
the
Plains,
and
how
they
viewed
the
natural
world.
It
includes
the
"belief
systems,
philosophies,
and
practical
knowledge
that
guide
[these]
peoples'
interactions
with
the
natural
world."
This
site
is
part
of
Carnegie
Museum
of
Natural
History.
Indian People of the
Northern Great Plains
http://libmuse.msu.montana.edu/epubs/nadb/
This site contains an online database of photos and visual records of current
and former Indian groups from the Northern Great Plains. The site is searchable.
Camping
with
the
Sioux:
Fieldwork
Diary
of
Alice
Cunningham
Fletcher
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/fletcher/fletcher.htm
Native
Web
http://www.nativeweb.org/
Native
Web
is
an
all-volunteer
site
with
links
to
Resources,
Books
and
Music,
Hosted
Materials,
and
Communities.
The
Resource
link
contains
links
to
both
a
subject
index
and
a
nations
index.
The
nations
index
has
links
to
more
than
200
tribes
that
contain
a
variety
of
information.
NativeTech:
Native
American
Technology
and
Art
http://www.nativetech.org/
This
site
is
covers
traditional
Native
uses
of
beads,
birch
bark,
cattails,
clay,
cornhusks,
leather,
plants,
pottery,
stone,
and
other
materials.
There
is
also
background
information
on
the
history,
development,
changes
and
continuities
in
Native
technologies
from
pre-contact
to
the
present.
Index
of
Native
American
Resources
on
the
Internet
http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/
This
site,
developed
"primarily
to
provide
information
resources
to
the
Native
American
community
and
only
secondarily
to
the
general
community,"
is
maintained
by
one
person
(M.
Strom)
who
is
not
a
Native
American.
The
Culture
link
organized
by
tribes
and
area,
and
the
Museum
link
contains
a
lot
of
information.
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Please
keep
in
mind
that
the
Internet
is
a
fluid
medium
and
sites
are
constantly
being
added,
moved
and
deleted.
If
you
find
a
dead
or
redirected
link
or
you
would
like
me
to
add
a
new
resource
please
contact
me
at
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Please
give
me
the
name
of
the
task,
the
title
of
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and
link
address.
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