American Indian Studies: Web Resources

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General Web Sites

Index of Native American Resources on the Internet

This site is constructed primarily to provide information resources to the Native American community and only secondarily to the general community. The information is organized, insofar as possible, to make it useful to the Native American community and the education community. Location: http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/

Native American Sites

Home to the American Indian Library Association. This Web site, created by librarian Lisa Mitten, is an essential site for any researcher of Native American issues. This site provides access to Web sites of native organizations, business, media, music and culture, tribal colleges, and native studies programs. The site also links to quality resources about native communities. Location: http://www.globalthinkinginc.com/nativeculture/

American Indian History and Related Issues

Location: http://www.csulb.edu/projects/ais/

California Indians (Dictionary, A-C) / SDSU

http://infodome.sdsu.edu/research/guides/calindians/calinddict.shtml

Native Americans and Law

Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project

Housed at the University of Oklahoma Law Library, this project is a cooperative effort between the University of Oklahoma Law Center, the National Indian Law Library, and Native American tribes. The site provides access to constitutions, tribal codes, a digitized version of the Handbook of Federal Indian Law (1941) by Felix S. Cohen, documents of Indian land cessions, Indian Reorganization Act Era Constitutions and Charters, and many other resources for researchers of Native American legal issues. Location: http://thorpe.ou.edu

Kappler's Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties

This site contains the fully searchable digitized text of all seven volumes from the original 1903-04 U.S Government Printing Office publication. Based at Oklahoma State University Library, these volumes contain U.S. government treaties with Native Americans from 1871-1970 as well as U.S. laws and executive orders. Information can be accessed from the table of contents, through the index of each volume, or by keyword search. Location: http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/

The University of Oklahoma Law Center Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project.

North American primary resources

Edward S. Curtis’ “The North American Indian.”

This site contains selected images and text from this early 20th-century work and has excellent related resources. Access: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/curthome.html.

Indian Land Cessions in the United States.

This site contains the second part of the two-part Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. It features 67 maps, schedules of treaties, and land cessions compiled by Charles C. Royce. Access: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwss-ilc.html.

The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents.

These missionary texts are one of the major sources of information about the early years of French contact and colonization in North America; they describe aboriginal societies and economic, cultural, demographic, and religious impact of contact. This site contains the entire English translation of the original late 19th-century documents. Each file contains the total English contents of a single published volume.
Access: http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/relations/.

Native American connections [computer file] : year book/directory.

Available on Academic Search Elite, 1996-

U.S. Congressional Serial Set

Reports, documents, and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, originally published in approximately 13,800 bound volumes for the period 1817-1980. Available online

Government Resources: Federal, State, and Local

Bureau of Indian Affairs symbol U.S. Dept. of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs

Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) responsibility is the administration and management of 66 million acres of land held in trust by the United States for American Indians, Indian tribes, and Alaska Natives. It provides services to 1.7 million American Indians and Alaska Natives. http://www.doi.gov/bia/l

USA.Gov

Portal Federal documents. Location: http://www.usa.gov/

Code Talk

Code Talk is a federal inter-agency Native American website that provides information for Native American communities. Code Talk is hosted by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Native American Programs. Location:http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/public_indian_housing/ih

Google's UncleSam Google' s UncleSam

Location: http://www.google.com/unclesam

Federal Websites for Tribal Libraries and Tribal College Libraries

Location: http://www.oklibshare.org/ieclinks.htm

Facts & Figures

Statistical Record of Native North Americans.

Marlita A. Reddy, editor. Detroit : Gale, c1995.
Location: REFRM E98.P76 S73 1995

American FactFinder

Provides information based on the USCensus;
Subject Index: Native Americans
Location: http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/BasicFactsServlet

RAND California

provides easy access to statistics about California; some databases cover the entire United States. (CSUN subscription; not available to all users) Suggestion: Statistics Summary, ... by race (U.S. State and County Population Statistics By Race and/or Age)
Location: Internet (subscription)