American Indian History
Marines Raising Flag at Iwo Jima
Five United States Marines and a Navy medic raise the American flag atop Mount Suribachi, the highest point on Iwo Jima, during the Battle of Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945. This photograph remains one of the most famous images of World War II. Ira Hayes, a full-blooded Pima Indian, was among the marines who helped raise it. Microsoft ® Encarta ® Reference Library 2005. © 1993-2004 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Native Web Resources
NativeWeb
Resources for indigenous cultures around the world: directory and news.
NativeWeb
Resources for indigenous cultures around the world: directory and news.
Native News & Issues
First Perspective
(Canada) Politically independent and is Aboriginal owned and operated.
Independent Native News
Daily 5-minute radio program featuring news about Native Americans, Alaska Natives and Canada's First Nations (distributed in MP3 format for download).
Indian Country Today
Publishes more original journalistic content on American Indian issues than any other news source
Indianz.com
Quality news, information, and entertainment from a Native American perspective.
National Native News
Native issues and promotes an understanding between Native and non-Native peoples. Native word of the day, stories and you can listen live.
Native News Online
Promotes understanding and awareness of common issues facing Native peoples today
Native Times
News coverage of Native issues from a Native perspective. The largest independently owned Native American Newspaper in the United States.
News from Indian Country
National, cultural & regional sections PLUS special interest articles, features, entertainment, letters and the most up-to-date pow-wow directory in North America.
Links
California's Lost Tribes
A four part series of articles from the Sacramento Bee, which examines the situation of Native Americans in California. Includes photographs from the series as well.
Center for World indigenous Studies
The Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS) is an independent, non-profit research and education organization dedicated to wider understanding and appreciation of the ideas and knowledge of indigenous peoples. The Center fosters better understanding between peoples through the publication and distribution of literature written and voiced by leading contributors from Fourth World nations. An important goal of CWIS is to establish cooperation between nations and to democratize relations between nations and between nations and states.
Index of Native American Resources on the Internet
One of the most thorough and well-organized collections of links to Native American Indian Internet resources available. Covers cultural, artistic, political, social and other varied aspects relating to Native American Indians.
Indian Schools, Colleges, Tribes
These web pages are running on the Fond du Lac Tribal Community college web server. Fond du Lac is an Ojibwe or Anishnabe (Original People) Nation that was miscalled "Chippewa" for many years.
Indigenous Peoples' Literature
Includes the following full-text sections: The Americas, Artists, Columbus-1492, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania, Famous Documents, Famous Quotes, Great Chiefs & Leaders, Indigenous Nations of North America, Mother Earth Prayers, Music, Poetry, Stories, Writers/Speakers, Writings of Native Youth.
National Museum of the American Indian
The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian is dedicated to the preservation, study, and exhibition of the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of Native Americans. Established by an Act of Congress in 1989, the museum works in collaboration with the Native peoples of the Western Hemisphere to protect and foster their cultures by reaffirming traditions and beliefs, encouraging contemporary artistic expression, and empowering the Indian voice.
Native American Resource Page
American Indian resources gathered by The U.S. Office of Technology Assessment. Includes a report for the U.S. Senate on Telecommunications Technology and Native Americans.
Native American Sites on the WWW
This page's "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." Well-organized and easy to use.
Native Web
Large collection of links to Web resources related to Native Peoples. Search or browse by Subject, Nations, Geographic Region, Documant, or several other ways. International in scope; not limited to the Americas. Nations index is especially good as a starting place for research.
The California Indian Library Collections
The California Indian Library Collections (CILC) was funded with the aim of returning unique cultural materials to California's Native Americans and making the collections available to all citizens through their local libraries. Archived sound recordings, photographs, and textual materials (such as books, journal articles, unpublished manuscripts and field notes, many of which were gathered by Berkeley researchers in the early years of this century) have been duplicated and installed in twenty-one northern and central California libraries. Each county collection contains materials specific to the tribes within that county.
The Oneida Indian Nation
The Oneida Indian Nation, one of the original members of the Iroquois Confederacy, enjoys a unique role in America's history having supported the Colonies in the struggle for independence from England. The Nation exists as a sovereign political unit which predates the Constitution of the United States. (Includes links to other tribes and American Indian resources.)
Thank you to Chico High School Library's fantastic Native American Resources webpage and especially to whoever took the time to write such awesome descriptions, from which vast portions of this list have been shamelessly ripped off. See them at
http://dewey.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/amind.html.
