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Councils & Institutes
AIHEC Information
Access contact information - e-mail and snail mail addresses and phone
numbers - plus an interactive map and links to several Native American
colleges from the American Indian Higher Education Consortium.
http://www.aihec.org
Center for Indigenous Theatre
"The Centre for Indigenous Theatre is a non-profit registered Canadian
charitable organization which provides training, education, networking and
positive role modelling in the field of theatre, including film and
television, for persons of Aboriginal, Metis and Innuit descent." Learn all
about it here.
http://www.interlog.com/~cit/cit.html
First Nations House of Learning
The House of Learning is located in the First Nations Longhouse, a building
which reflects the architectural traditions of the Northwest Coast. There is
a diagram of this longhouse, and pages about the programmes and degrees
available here from the University of British Columbia.
http://www.longhouse.ubc.ca
Indian Schools
From this page you can learn the history of Native education, including the
forcible removal of Native children from their homes and the creation of
some schools supervised in part by tribal leaders. The focus is on the
United States, although similar conditions apply to not only ALL Native
Americans, but indigenous peoples around the world, most notably Australia.
Follow the in-text links to further information.
http://members.aol.com/tawodi/carlisle/intro.html
Aboriginal Youth Network
This website hopes to unite the Aboriginal youth across Canada by providing
programmes, services, youth news, bulletins, powwow listings, art and
literature, events, chat lines, e-mail hook-ups and listings, and the new
addition of health information sites for teens! In the "Serious Stuff
Section" there is an article about solvent abuse. You don't need to be a
Native teen to appreciate this site.
http://ayn.ca/
Adopt-an-Elder Program
Here's an interesting way to learn about Native culture while you're making
someone's life easier.
http://www.anelder.org
AIRPI Home Page
AIRPI is the American Indian Research and Policy Institute. Their mission is
"to provide government leaders, policy makers and the public with accurate
information about: the legal and political history of American Indian
nations; the contemporary situation for American Indians". The resources
section offers you articles on several areas of concern.
http://www.airpi.org
American Indian Research Opportunities
Get information about AIRO, an organization (from Montana's seven Tribal
colleges) whose goal is to provide career opportunities in areas currently
under-represented by Native Americans.
http://www.montana.edu/~wwwai
American Indian Ritual Object Repatriation Foundation
This foundation says: "The loss of ceremonial material has prevented many
American Indians from passing ritual knowledge to future generations,
consequently destroying traditions of prayer, medicine, and rites of
passage." How are they getting these items back? Find out here. Any links of
anecdotal nature appear to be inoperative.
http://www.repatriationfoundation.org/index.html
Assembly of First Nations
This Canadian organization of First Nations has consistently fought for
Native rights. Its website offers you articles, press releases and speeches,
information about new and proposed legislation, programmes, resources, and a
good section dealing with the AFN's structure, history, and mandate.
English, French, and Spanish are your language options.
http://www.afn.ca
Indian Taxation Advisory Board
The purpose of this Canadian all-Aboriginal Board is "to assist First
Nations achieve self-determination by the establishment of taxation
jurisdiction." This website contains information about the services offered
and a look at First Nations taxing.
http://itab.cactuscom.com/english.htm
Maine Indian Tribal-State Commission
Learn all about this commission - its history, mandate, past and present
projects, membership, and contact numbers and addresses. Click on the "Table
of Contacts" link to gain access to aricles about several issues facing
natives in Maine.
http://www.ptla.org/wabanaki/comm'n.htm
Minnesota Indian Affairs Council
This website offers information about the Indian Affair Council's
organization and programs, tribes with reservations in Minnesota, treaties
that affect the state and its Indian population, and educational reference
material. There is a good map on the "Tribes" page which shows the locations
of the various reservations and communities.
http://www.indians.state.mn.us
Native American Support Group of New York City
An organization formed in 1988 to address issues of importance to Native
Americans brings you this website. Some topics discussed here include
Hawaiian sovereignty, the massacre in Chiapas, Mexico, and the desecration
of the Apache Sacred Mountain.
http://members.aol.com/gwolf15020/index.htm
Native Counselling Services of Alberta
Topics at this site include a history of the organization, their resources,
and a listing of programs.
http://www.compusmart.ab.ca/ncsa/
Native Elder Health Care Resource Center [NEHCRC]
This website was designed to inform us of resources which are available for
elderly members of the Native community. What they do and how they do it is
all explained here.
http://www.uchsc.edu/sm/nehcrc/
Native Hawaiian Advisory Council
Here you'll find news, education, politics, legal matters for Native
Hawaiians, details regarding a project to restore wetland taro lo'i acreage,
documents, history, culture, environment, and language resources.
http://www.pixi.com/~nhac/
Native Nashville - Tennessee's Resource for Native American History...
"Dedicated to preserving and protecting Native American burial grounds and
other culturally significant places." Follow the links to learn about native
life, past and present. Those of you with RealPlayer can listen to various
programs from American Indian Radio on satellite. Issues, facts, FAQs, and
language are some of the topics covered here.
http://www.nativenashville.com/
Nipmuc Indian Association of Connecticut
Read about the purpose of the Association, get contact information, learn
about the Nipmuc people, their territory, and language, and view (or
download) the .gif maps which represent the tribal lands in the 17th
century.
http://www.nativeweb.org/NativeTech/Nipmuc
Spirits of the Land Foundation
This non-profit organization is based in Oklahoma. Its website offers you
information about its history and proposed programmes, and provides you with
links to names and addresses of tribal leaders and Native colleges. You'll
find news, announcements, and an exceptionally good list of related
resources links.
http://greatspirit.earth.com/
Tawow Online
Volume 1 of the online version of this magazine offers cultural articles and
news items related to Canada's western Native peoples.
http://www.fnc.ca/tawow
American Indian Tribal Directory
Click on the dancer to enter the main site. Among other things, you'll find
a Resource Library and a Tribal Directory. (There are three directories
here: one by tribe, one by state, and one by city/state - as federally
recognized by the U.S government. Each link leads to a contact person and
mailing address.)
http://www.indians.org/tribes/tribes.html
American Indian Tribes
This unofficial list of American tribes by state seems to have no particular
order. (Maybe north to south from west to east?)
http://members.tripod.com/~MGO/Indian.html
California Indian Library Collections
Do you need a book or paper concerning a Californian tribe? There's a
bibliography here, arranged by topics, relating to all tribes throughout the
state. Each work is currently in print and list of publishers and
distributors. From the in-text link "bibliography" you get a wealth of
information, such as alternate tribal names. There's lots more. Check it
out.
http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/cilc/bibs/toc.html
Index of Native American Authors Online
An extensive list of links to pages filled with biographies, stories, and
poems written by Native authors.
http://hanksville.phast.umass.edu/poems/poets/
Native American Constitutions
This site's author says: "This site is currently in the initial stages of
development, and content is still changing." Right now, though, it gives you
access to 23 tribal constitutions and eight tribal codes.
http://thorpe.ou.edu/
Peggy Berryhill-Native Media Resource Center
A site about Native-owned and operated public radio stations, issues
affecting Native culture, and the Muskogee nation. There is an audio file as
well, in three formats, Real Audio, .wav or .aiff.
http://www.wco.com/~berryhp/nmrc.html
Treaties
American Indian Today
Several areas of information are available to you on this site from the
Department of the Interior and its Bureau of Indian Affairs.
http://www.doi.gov/bia/aitoday/aitoday.html
Andrew Jackson on Indian Removal
In 1835 Andrew Jackson made his seventh annual address to Congress. This
site gives you an excerpt from that address.
http://www3.pbs.org/weta/thewest/wpages/wpgs620/removal.htm
British Columbian Government Documents on Native Sovereignty
You'll find a great deal of information here, including a link to government
documents, news articles such as "Native children stolen by BC govt," and
the BC Treaty Commission.
http://kafka.uvic.ca/~vipirg/SISIS/Clark/BCgovt.html
Bureau Of Indian Affairs Law Enforcement Services
A history of tribal police, statistics, handbooks, and lots of other general
information.
http://bialaw.fedworld.gov/index.html
Canadian-Indian Treaties
There are some maps here to show the areas mentioned in the treaties. The
legend code will tell you how to read them. The texts of the treaties aren't
here - just the names, the tribes involved, and other statistics.
http://ellesmere.ccm.emr.ca/wwwnais/select/indian/english/html/indian.html
Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs
This website comes from the Colorado Lieutenant Governor's Office. There is
all the usual legislative material concerning Natives and some good
information about the Ute, Southern Ute, and Ute Mountain Ute tribes.
http://www.state.co.us/gov_dir/ltgov/indian/utemount.html
Dawes Act of 1887
Read the text of the 1887 Dawes Act. It was "an act to provide for the
allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and
to extend the protection of the laws of the U.S. and territories over the
Indians, and for other purposes."
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/statutes/native/dawes.htm
General Native American Information
This is the U.S. government's official policy concerning Native Americans.
"Who is an Indian; can they vote; do they pay taxes?" and other questions
are answered here.
http://www.em.doe.gov/stake/natinfo.html
INAC World Wide Web Site
This site from the Canadian government is available in either French or
English. A few of the many areas you can look into are "Royal Commission on
Aboriginal Affairs," "News Releases," "National Aboriginal Day," and "Art".
http://www.inac.gc.ca/index_e.html
Legislation Affecting the American Indian Community
This ste offers information and status about bills currently in legislation,
news alerts, proposed amendments to existing acts and more.
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/4725
Native American Laws
Here you can read laws, policies, and executive orders which affect Native
Americans.
http://www.usbr.gov/laws/native.html
Northwest Ordinance
The area northwest of the Ohio River was once forbidden to settlers. In 1787
the Northwest Ordinance was passed by Congress setting up the eventual
formation of five states and, in effect, gave away the land occupied by
Native Peoples. This document's text is here in full, as well as three
slow-loading scans of the actual pages.
http://earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/milestones/ordinance/index.html
Potlatch - The Nemesis of Assimilation
Read the study which investigates the role of the potlatch in west coast
(Canada) tribal societies. You'll learn how it was banned by the British
Columbia government (Potlatch Proclamation) and about the reversal of that
law in 1951. All in all an interesting, but scholarly, read.
http://www.anu.edu.au/~e950866/potlatch/
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