American Indian Studies: Web Resources
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.nativeculturelinks.com/indians.html
- 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/
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
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
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://www.hud.gov/offices/pih/ih/codetalk/ |
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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)
Miscellenous
- Equal educational opportunity for Native American students
- Location: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS13587
- Policing on American Indian reservations.
- Location: http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/188095.pdf
- Report on Tribal Priority Allocations
- Location: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS14925
- Antiquities Act of 1906
- Location: "http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS15652
- American Indian Materials in the Federal Depository Libraries of Oklahoma
- Location: http://www.odl.state.ok.us/usinfo/pubs/ghost_dance.pdf
- Tribal leader/Department of the Interior Task Force on trust reform
report for the Secretary of the Interior
- Location: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS19668
- National Indian Gaming Commission
- Location: http://www.nigc.gov/
- Socioeconomic Characteristics of American Indians in L.A. County
- Location: http://repositories.cdlib.org/lewis/cspp/10/
- Family violence and American Indians/Alaska Natives : a report to the
Indian Health Service Office of Women's.
- Location: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS35800
- Profiling the Native American community in Albuquerque : assessing the
impacts of Census undercounts and adjustments
- Location: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS30199
- Characteristics of American Indians and Alaska Natives by Tribe and
Language 2000 (in 2 parts)
- Location: http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/phc-5-pt1.pdf
and http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/phc-5-pt2.pdf
Based on part on an article by Gina Matesic which appeared in C&RL
News, January 2004
Vol. 65, No. 1
Page created and maintaned by Mary Woodley For questions please email mary.woodley@csun.edu
