SOC 249: Native Nations of the US,
TR 10-11:50  OL 215
Fall 2006
DePauw University
Professor Thomas Hall
 Office:  106 Asbury, x4519, email: thall@depauw.edu
 OFFICE HOURS:  TuTr 1-1:50; W 11-12; & by appt
Electronic Links
9-1-06

NOTE:  I will update this page frequently; and am in the process of adding many new links. 

H-AmIndian: http://www.asu.edu/clas/history/h-amindian/index.html

The following are from 2004

NEW:  Exhibit on Native Ranching http://www.conexus.si.edu/legends/main.html
Paul Chaat Smith:  Fear of a Red Planet http://redplanet.home.mindspring.com/index.htm
[Paul Chaat (rhymes with hot) Smith is a curator at the National Museum of the American Indian, part of the Smithsonian museusms in Washington, D.C.  He spoke at the Boswell Symposium 3-15-04 at DPU.

Indigenous Peoples:  General Sources
Cultural Survival:   http://www.cs.org/
CWIS:  Center for World Indigenous Studies  http://www.cwis.org/
CWS is a non-profit organization that focus' on relationship between tribal societies and state and National goverments.  The Fourth World Documentation Project is a part of CWIS' attempt to preserve records of the struggles of the Indigenous people of the Fourth World.  
CWIS: Virtual Library http://www.cwis.org/wwwvl/indig-vl.html
IWIGIA:   International Work Group on Indigenous Affairs http://www.pip.dknet.dk/~pip1917/index.htm#overview
LISN:  League of Indigenous Sovereign Nations http://www.lisn.net/
Resources on Hallmark's Dreamkeeper http://abc.go.com/movies/dreamkeeper/

American Indian Links:  General Information
Appendix H, pp. 303-305 in the Wilkins book lists a number of internet sources, and on 304-5 has a partial list of websites for specific Indian nations.  Many other links are included in those listed below.

Bureau of Indian Affairs [BIA] Mission statement  http://www.doiu.nbc.gov/orientation/bia2.cfm
BIA list of tribes  http://www.doiu.nbc.gov/orientation/indian-tribes.pdf
National Museum of the American Indian http://www.si.edu/nmai/
H-Amindian discussion list archives   http://www.asu.edu/clas/history/h-amindian/index.html
Native American Indian Resources: Main Menu  http://www.kstrom.net/isk/mainmenu.html
Native American Resources on the web:  http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/ 
Native American Studies Programs:  http://oncampus.richmond.edu/faculty/ASAIL/guide/guide.html
Native Navigator:   http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/k12/naha/nanav.html
Native Web:   http://www.nativeweb.org/

Specific Nations:
Dakota Home Language Page, a page that looks at how to teach a native language.        http://www.alliance2k.org/daklang/dakota9463.htm
Nunavut: 
    Official Government site:  http://www.gov.nu.ca/
    Gateway site:  http://www.nunavut.com/
    Nunavut Handbook:  http://www.arctictravel.com/
    Nunavut Statistics:  http://www.stats.gov.nu.ca/
Omaha Powwow Songs on line: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/omhhtml/
Oneida Nation:   http://www.oneida-nation.net/index.html
Oneida of Wisconsin:  www.oneidanation.org

Journals:
First Nations Journals http://www.library.ubc.ca/xwi7xwa/journal.htm
American Indian Culture and Research Journal:  http://www.books.aisc.ucla.edu/aicrj.html
American Indian Quarterly:  http://unp.unl.edu/aiq.html
Celanan: A Journal of Indigenous Governance:  http://web.uvic.ca/igov/research/journal/index.htm
Native Americas: Journal of American Indian Program, Cornell University
      http://nativeamericas.aip.cornell.edu/
Pimohtewin:  A Journal of Native Studies, University of Alberta: http://www.ualberta.ca/~pimohte/
Wicazo Sa Review: http://www.upress.umn.edu/journals/wsr/default.html

Sacred Issues and Lands:
Devil's Tower  http://www.newyoming.com/DevilsTower/
In the Light of Reverence video web:  http://www.sacredland.org/
List of Native American Sacred Sites, with Photos:
   https://www.denix.osd.mil/denix/Public/ES-Programs/Conservation/Legacy/Sacred/toc.html

Activism and Activists:
AIM web page: http://www.aimovement.org/
Chief Illiniwek:  Official U. Illinois Web:  http://www.uiuc.edu/dialogue/
Anti-Chief page  http://www.prairienet.org/prc/prcanti.html
Fighting Whities Homepage:  http://www.fightingwhites.org/
Leonard Peltier on Iraq War  http://www.freeleonardpeltier.org/leonardpeltiermessageofpeace3152003.htm
Buffy St. Marie home page http://www.creative-native.com/
Buffy's "Cradle Board" teaching project, very interesting issues for elementary and secondary teachers teaching about Native Issues [http://www.cradleboard.org/]
From Cradle Board resources page, URLS for many Native Nations
   [www.cradleboard.org/2000/tribal_w.html]

Miscellaneoous:
Humorous comparison of treatment of Iraq and Indians "Bureau of Iraqi Affairs"

My review of:  Kelli Carmean. Spider Woman Walks this Land: Traditional Cultural Properties and the Navajo Nation. Contemporary Native American Communities Series. Walnut Creek, Calif.: Altamira Press, is on H-Net:  http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=294551047523456

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