1. NATIVE LINKS SOURCES
  2. ArtPages......... Schools menupage, ....Books Tutorials ...... Games
  3. First Nations ... for the canadian natives areas.
  4. BIG INDEXES OF MANY NATIVE WEB AND INTERNET SITES
  5. Society and Culture:Cultures:Native American--This tunes Yahoo's big search engine to pull the relatively few Native listings it has. It will pull new entries specifically Native indexes don't have yet, but usually these are commercial sites. WebPersons have to take the trouble to "go there" and register their new sites with these web search engines like Yahoo. Most Native sites (there are more than 500, only a handful in Yahoo) haven't done this. You can do it (click the ticket at the top of the Yahoo page) from here!
  6. Indian Health Service American Indian Resources list--Handsome page, with some interesting finds.
  7. IHS Pow-Wow Page--Fairly complete Southwestern powwow (but almost no others), but also pix, memories, what to wear/see/do, how to act, food to serve at a ... They need notifications about powwows from other areas of the country and from Canada, to produce a complete calendar of them.
  8. McKinley Magellan Sites database -- Contains more than 18,000,000 InterNet documents, includes ability to search for actual docs, not just sites. But searches tend to produce too many or not to produce something you know is in there. Magellan uses red light/green light to indicate adult/suitable for kids (at least in the sense that it's not dirty). They have a stars rating which is not very good, because early ratings (when rather minor sites seemed spectacular) have not been revised to reflect constant improvements, in comparison with new sites which totally outclass the unmodified older ones. I find Magellan almost useless to locate anything in particular, but (since it will usually produce a list of hundreds or thousands of URL's to browse) often productive of things I had no suspicion existed on the web.
  9. Bill's Aboriginal Links--a very extensive, well-organized site, compiled by a Canadian lawyer who often represents tribes on Native legal matters, so his Native Law section is especially good. He also covers Australian aboriginal affairs. Thorough and a handsome layout, too.
  10. NativeWeb--Somewhat different approach to categorizing links than Strom's. Some may find the different approach more useful if they start with focused inquiries, rather than a desire to see everything there is. Recently moved to new serer and being reorganized. Certain of the categories don't make sense -- for example some BOOKS are under LITERATURE, some under EDUCATION, some under e-text (fulltext of certain books). Geography doesn't make sense to me, because I find no listing for my First Nations page set -- the most complete on the web, and containing original cultural material, not just links -- under Canada. Keyword searches don't work at all because keywords were assigned by people who superficially glanced at the top page of a set. This site would be improved if, like Yahoo, it permited WebPeople to input their own site descriptions, assign themselves to caterogies (with several cross-referencings, and choose their own keywords for database searching. Of course that requires database server tools which might not be available. The server seems erratic, I often cannot get on it, even at low-traffic times like 3 a.m.
  11. Australian Aboriginal Studies Web Virtual Library--This probably links everything worth linking for Australia Native InterNet and web sites,though the main orientation is academic, professorial, social studies, anthropology, archaeology. For its "world" sites there seems to be less concentration on the professoriate, more attempt to link actual native sites. In addition to the outline listing you'll see when the link comes up, there are 2 other database search methods. This isn't really a virtual library (no original material resides there), it is another very extensive set of links with very good tools for retrievals from such a collection, i.e. an index.
  12. ArchNet has fewer but more tightly focussed sites that the Australian Virtual Library. Its attempt is to be a service to archaeologists world-wide, but there ae some sites of native interest there. Not, unfortunately, in their listing of actual native sites, which is quite old, many long dead gophers, or sites that haven't been maintained or updated for years. Layout is pretty and convenient to use.
  13. Return of the Natives While most of ArcNet is for professors, not Natives, there's one interesting Topic on ArchNet, this 8-part series from the Hartford Courant newspaper. It begins with the Pequod (big casino) history, and ends with a good analysis of current economic situations more typical for Native Americans.

    GOVERNMENT NATIVE AGENCIES -- U.S. AND CANADA
  14. Bureau of Indian Affairs--Well, here they are. Not much content, but here it is.
  15. BIA Division of Energy and Mineral Resources Home Page--See the map project, the BIA is doing to help out oil and gas companies (Osage and Arapaho), compare with Canadian native maps available on the web.
  16. Indian and Northern Affairs Canada / Affaires Indiennes et du Nord Canada--French/English switchable, no Anishinaabeg or Cree switch of course. This has got so much useful material it makes the US BIA look sick.
  17. British Columbia Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs--Here's the Ministry's startup page. from its menu, you can see it's loaded with info of concern to Native people, Tribes -- and educators and students of BC. Treaties, land claims, negotiations and a very detailed consultation process. Check out their info-producing, cross-referenced imagemap of all bands and affilated councils in BC. The map is just plain black and white. But the info-producing capabilities, espeecially the band cross-referencing, are so good I'm totally in awe.
  18. Search results on uscode/18 -- Indian--U.S. Federal criminal law; contains definition of "Indian Country" for jurisdiction.
  19. Search results on uscode/20 - Education -INDIAN--U.S. Statutory federal Indian education responsibilities.
  20. Database Broker Query Results for: native AND treaties--This will bring up the results of a search among Canadian federal government records (from the Open Government Canadian server program (named "CHAMPLAIN") using those 2 keywords. When I did it, not very much was pulled; perhaps they will be adding more. You will see whatever this records database query pulls at the time you click here. You can then try other searchterms.

    American Indian Historical Images on File--Hundreds of engravings, maps, and from the 19th-century on, photos of Indian people and events. Examples range from a Relocation flyer put out by the BIA to a recent pic of Wilma Mankiller. Download for your own classroom use. Califnronia State University Prof Troy Johnson prepared these, lengthy historical notes on the more recent make it almost a "reader" of 20th-century native afairs, from IRA to AIM
  21. Alcatraz Island Prof. Johnson's start of a collection of rare Alcatraz images.
  22. De Bry Woodcuts--Prof Johnson has obtained and is annotating hundreds of black and white historical woodcuts from the 17th-century de Bry collection in New York.
  23. CanaDisk-- contains 2200 images (all black-and-white) of Canada's history. Many prior 1900 are of Native people. There are engravings and photos (starting from the mid 19th century). The images are not well described, not annotated, and no sources for them are given. May are diusappointingly poor quality -- maps whose text can't be read, engravings with long exlanatory legends that can't be read, etc. This in spite of the fact the files are huge. Apparently this was once a commercial CDROM disk that can now no longer bew sold (because of its poor quality) so the image library was donated to SchoolNet by the company who made the disk. Even so, it could have had more educational worth if SchoolNet personnel had spent more time annotating the file retrieval lists, as Prof. Donahue is doing, so the images were meaningful.

    MISCELLANEOUS, LIKELY TO BE OVERLOOKED FROM INDEXES
  24. Indian Artist - The Magazine of Contemporary Native American Art, Music, Literature, Photography, Film, Theater & Dance
  25. 4th World Documentation ProjectWDP -- Documents from the Americas--represents a lot of work; tries to preserve unofficial source docs.
  26. American Indian Research and Policy Institute--prepare materials from Indian viewpoint for Congressional pesentations, web page under construction; their gopher has many treaties.
  27. National Indian Policy Center--informational material from reports they have compiled to present Indian viewpoint to Congress. Also a gopher database of treaties (very poorly described, unorganized). NIPC's gopher contains the census data -- 1980, 1990 -- for reservations in great detail, but unusable database formats (lack the files containing the field keys).
  28. Native Americans and the Environment--Mostly a bibliography of published materials (hardcopy consult in books or journals).
  29. NSF Web Native Resources Keynote presentation Cedar Falls IA June 22--This remains on-line, getting updated, a sort of continuously-growing presentation.
  30. American Indian Nations--Graphically sophisticated layout, link referencing lots of non-graphical (mostly gopher holes) native info. Useful set of references. Link here to a plaintext of all federally-recognized U.S./Alaska tribes/native communities with (1993) contact names/addresses.
  31. GLRAIN-- Great Lakes Regional American Indian Network--started with ambitious plans, well-staffed, good funding, but doesn't have much posted.It's a sub-project of the non-Indian group that provides Great Lakes Regional Environmental Network content and access.

    NOT NATIVE-SPECIFIC BUT USEFUL GENERALLY
  32. AT&T Internet Toll Free 800 Directory--It's not really working right yet, but I found several Tribal toll-free numbers. The U.S. and state "government" listings are quite gonzo at present-- used car dealers and such, even fewer 800 numbers for Minnesota (state) and DC and several other states than I know fr a fact exist -- but just loaded with gonzo commercial 800 numbers under the government category. Well, maybe they are running the government.. Usually you never call "800 directory info" because 800 numbers are advertised, printed on stationery, etc. Non-Indian people may wonder why this link is here. Indian people who pay phone bills will know.

  1. THOMAS: (U.S.) Legislative Information on the Internet -- This wonderful resource will pull all bills about (say) "native AND american" -- their complete history from intro in each through passage (or death). Set number of hits to thousands, unless there are specific bills you want to trace (you can do that too). If you're just trying to find &all native legislation pending" the cache will not save the long list of hits through your accessing any one of them to find out what it says. Therefore, save such a file to disk, then load it into netscape with Open File, and use that file list to actually research it, othrwise the hits will go away and you'll have to re-enter your query each time you check wht on of the hits says.

  1. The Federal Web Locator--supposedly finds all federal servers/sites. It missed some I know about, and found some that are private, not federal. But it's pretty good if you're trying to find a server or site you think ought to exist. Although not finding it doesn't mean it doesn't exist, finding it means it does.
  2. U.S. Census Bureau Home Page--Useful info on tribal populations, not as thorough or good as the Canadian government provides.
  3. Census Bureau Tiger Mapping System Experimental Browser--maybe it'll improve someday
  4. 1990 Census Lookup (1.3.0a)--A different approach
  5. Web Virtual Library: Subject Catalogue--Doesn't seem to have anything about Natives in it now, but is adding all the time. Unlike an index that calls itself a library, this really is one -- its links are to fulltext content, whether on web pages, in gophers, or in FTP download files.
  6. Virtual Reference Desk--dictionaries, enclopedias, all sorts of lookups, not about Indians but often useful for research and writing
  7. Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet - Table of Contents--Despite it's stupid title a good (slightly outdated) guide to InterNet, once a book catering to yuppie Mac owners (who apparently pride themselves on their techno-incapabilities).
  8. Indigenous People Catalog: Desert Moon periodical distributor/catalog--Carries Indigenous Womens Network magazine, several other Native periodicals