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NAIIP Student Loans & Financial Aid!

• American Indian College Fund "A person's wealth is measured by
  what he gives away not by what he keeps." a Lummi belief. "There
  are 31 tribal colleges--all founded by Indians to fight high rates
  of poverty, educational failure and cultural loss. These colleges
  created the non-profit American Indian College Fund to raise
  desperately-needed scholarship, endowment and operating monies."

• Links to Scholarship Information Courtesy of the Cherokee Nation, OK.
  Visit the Cherokee Nation's Higher Education (CNHE), undergraduate
  and graduate, and the Cherokee Nation Education Corporation (CNEC)
  for scholarship information.

• Upper Mohawk Inc. Native American Incentive Program
  "Upper Mohawk, Inc. is your one source for; Training
  and Development Programs, Business Management
  Support, and Information Technology Services."

• Morris K. Udall Foundation ~ Native Nations Institute
  "The Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management,
  and Policy (NNI) was founded in 2001 by the Morris K. Udall
  Foundation and the University of Arizona as a self-determination,
  self-governance, and development resource for Native Nations."

• FinAid, ~ Site Map 'The Smart Student Guide to Financial Aid.'
  Educational 'Loans, Scholarships, Military Aid' "FinAid was established
  in the fall of 1994 as a public service. This award-winning site has
  grown into the most comprehensive annotated collection of information
  about student financial aid on the web."
  • Financial Aid for Native Canadian and American Indian Students
  • Financial Aid for Minority Students ~ Financial Aid Applications

• ERIC ~ Clearinghouse On Rural Education & Schools
  "The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored
  by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S.
  Department of Education, produces the world’s premier database
  of journal and non-journal education literature." Search ERIC
  for scholarship information resourses.

• U.S. Department of Education: Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE)
  "The US Department of Education (USED) offers a considerable amount
  of information about student financial aid online."
  • Information for Students Index
  • Portal for Federal Student Aid

• Bureau of Indian Affairs, Office of Indian Education Programs
  "The mission of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Office of Indian
  Education Programs, is to provide quality education opportunities
  from early childhood through life in accordance with Tribe's
  needs for cultural and economic well-being in keeping with the
  wide diversity of Indian Tribes and Alaska Native villages as
  distinct cultural and governmental entities. The Office of Indian
  Education Programs (OIEP) is one of the largest program components
  in the Bureau of Indian Affairs." Programs ~ Funding Opportunities

• NCIDC ~ Scholorships for Native American Students
  "Comprehensive scholarship guide to over 500
  potential sources of funding for Native people."
  Northern California Indian Development Council
  Del Norte Indian Education Center, Crescent City, CA
  • Web Sites With More Information
  • Addresses of Organizations With More Information

• American Indian Higher Education Consortium "AIHEC is
  a unique—and uniquely American Indian—organization. It was
  founded in 1972 by the presidents of the nation’s first six
  Tribal Colleges, as an informal collaboration among member
  colleges. Today, AIHEC has grown to represent 32 colleges
  in the United States and one Canadian institution. Unlike
  most professional associations, it is governed jointly by
  each member institution."

• Gates Millennium Scholars "The Gates Millenium Scholars program
  was founded by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,
  and is intended to increase the number of African-Americans,
  American Indians/Alaska Natives, Asian Pacific Americans and
  Hispanic Americans enrolling in and completing undergraduate
  and graduate degree programs."

• Michigan State University, Office of Admissions and Scholarships
  "Michigan State University offers a variety of scholarships
  for minority groups and Native American students specifically."
  • North American Indigenous Student Organization
  • NAISO/MSU: Scholarship Resources
    • Michigan Indian Tuition Waiver
  • Native American Law Scholarships
  • MSU Scholarships Index

• United Tribes Technical College " The Financial Aid Office
  at United Tribes Technical College (UTTC) maintains
  a program of financial aid and scholarship information
  to assist students in meeting the cost of their education."

• New Mexico State University ~ Indian Resource Development
  • Financial Aid Booklet "IRD publishes Sources of Financial Aid Available to American Indian Students and distributes it to Native American students nationwide. This book provides up-to-date information on financial aid for Native American students, as well as information on co-op and summer employment opportunities. IRD publishes this book every year in January. The book is FREE for students in-state (NM) and $4.00 for students out-of-state. For more information, please contact Indian Resource Development.

RESEARCH PATHS

• The Wild West.org "This site is dedicated to my grandfather
  William Keith of the Cherokee Nation, born in Caddo, Oklahoma."
  "Welcome to CyberSoup's The Wild West. This site presents a
  look at the American West, the history and legends of Native
  Americans or American Indians, if you prefer, western cowboys,
  western cowgirls and women of the west..."

• First Nations History: We Were Not the Savages
  "It's my fervent hope that information contained in these web
  pages will help users acquire a better understanding of the
  history, hopes, and aspirations of First Nation Peoples."
  By Dr. Daniel N Paul, C.M., O.N.S., Hon.D.Litt

• PBS: American Experience: Native Americans
  "In this interview, Donald Fixico, Thomas Bowlus Distinguished
  Professor of American Indian History and Director of the Center
  for Indigenous Nations Studies at the University of Kansas, talks
  about the West before white settlement, the impact of the railroad
  on Native American life, and the near-extinction of the American buffalo."

• Sherman Indian High School/Museum, California" The Sherman
  Indian High School was one of several off-reservation boarding
  schools opened by the United States government in the late 1800s.
  The intention of these schools was to assimilate Native Americans
  into mainstream society. The Sherman Indian Museum, located on
  the Sherman Indian High School grounds in Riverside, California."

• Iroquois Confederacy...and...the U.S. Constitution
  "This curricular unit looks at the influence one Native American culture
  had on our Founding Fathers' ideas about democracy, governmental
  structures, the rights of the individual and public good."

• American Indian Studies Research Institute (AISRI)
  "In 1985 AISRI was founded at Indiana University
  to searve as an interdisciplinary research center for
  projects focusing on the native peoples of the Americas."
  • Publications ~*~ Projects ~ Research ~ Editorial ~ Educational

• Vincent Ferraro's Home Page Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
  • URL List: Documents Relating American Foreign Policy Pre-1898
    • Black Hawk's Surrender Speech, 1832
    • The Removal Act 28 May 1830

• Center for the Study of the First Americans
  "CSFA is located at Oregon State University in Corvallis,
  Oregon, and affiliated with the Department of Anthropology,
  CSFA is dedicated to the promotion of interdisciplinary
  scholarly dialogue and research and the stimulation of
  public interest on the subject of the peopling of the Americas."

• Northern Saskatchewan Heritage Site "Two seemingly incompatible enthusiasms characterise the North as it faces the millennium: the onslaught of technology and a revival of Traditions and Culture. Historically the Heritage and Culture of Aboriginal people have been woven closely together. On this site we explore our people and their communities, our past, and our present through the use of technology. "

• Lone Eagle Consulting "LEC strives to maintain the small circle of the very best Internet learning pathways, requiring the least time and effort, to deliver the highest levels of benefit and motivation for people of all cultures and literacy levels. Everything on this site is free to all as our contribution to encouraging individual and community self-sufficiency and self-publishing."
  • K12 Innovations Using Computers and Internet
    'Native American/Alaskan/Hawaiian'
  • Common Ground: 'A Cross-Cultural Self-Directed Learner's Internet Guide' "An instructional brokerage resource with emphasis on pointing to the best online tutorials, and educational resources for self-directed learning and classroom teachers."
  • Echoes in the Electronic Wind: 'A Native American Cross-cultural Internet Guide' "Same resources as Common Ground, with the addition of over 20 pages of carefully reviewed Native American resources listed by topic."

• Northwest Indian Applied Research Institute "The Institute's mission is to serve the interests of the area's tribes, by applying the principles of applied research, putting theory into practice, and making available college and community resources to address the needs of Washington State tribes and Native people." Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington

• Department of Native American Studies at UC Davis
  "Welcome to the Department of Native American Studies, a
  unique exploration in Native American intellectual sovereignty."

• American Indian Studies Program ~ University of Idaho
  "The American Indian Studies Program, at the University
  of Idaho, College of Letters and Science, seeks to apply
  the collective knowledge, expertise and perspectives from
  both the Indian communities and the university to enhance
  the quality of life among Indian peoples."

• The American Indian and Native Studies Program
  "AINSP is an interdisciplinary program that focuses on
  the histories, cultures, languages, arts, crafts, beliefs,
  political and social organizations, economies, geographies,
  literatures, and contemporary legal and political issues
  of Native Americans of the United States and other
  indigenous peoples of the western hemisphere."
  University of Iowa

• The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
  "Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy"
  • "Treaties Between the United States and Native Americans."

• Northern Arizona University Department of Anthropology
  "Our mountain campus is surrounded by a greater cultural and ecological
  diversity than can be found virtually anywhere else in the United States.
  This allows us to learn from Native American and other cultural groups
  living nearby, including the Apache, Havasupai, Hopi, Hualapai, Kaibab
  Paiute, Navajo, San Juan Paiute, Yavapai-Apache, and Yavapai, as well as
  Hispanic, Black, Asian, and Anglo- American populations. Flagstaff, AZ."
  • Hopi Cultural Preservation Office
  • Cross Cultural Dance Resources
  • Navajo Nation Archaeology Department

• Northern Kentucky University ~ NKU Native American Studies
  "Welcome to the Native American Studies home page at Northern
  Kentucky University, the only Native American Studies program in
  the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the entire Ohio Valley region.
  Vision: All Kentuckians will recognize, appreciate and understand
  the significant contributions Native Americans have made to Kentucky's
  rich cultural heritage. Through education and increased awareness,
  the people of Kentucky will understand the histories, cultures and
  matters of concern to Native American people."

• University of Wisconsin Library - Madison ~ Wisconsin Electronic Reader "A cooperative digital imaging project of the University of Wisconsin-Madison General Library System and the State Historical Society of Wisconsin." Story: Indians of Wisconsin ~ Black Hawk
  • Indian Gallery ~ Indian Mounds Gallery

• Whitehorse Middle School ~ Madison, Wisconsin
  • Classroom Home Pages - Social Studies
    "Mr. Neefe's Social Studies Web Project Aztalan Indians"

• North American Indian Historical Sites 'Listed by State'
  "Mounds, Pyramids, Related National and State Parks"

• University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections
• American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Digital Collection "We can learn from the images and writings of the time...This site provides an extensive digital collection of original photographs and documents about the Northwest Coast and Plateau Indian cultures, complemented by essays written by anthropologists, historians, and teachers about both particular tribes and cross-cultural topics. The essays include bibliographies and links to related text and images as well as study questions that K-12 teachers may use as they develop curricula in their schools. The digital databases includes over 2,300 original photographs as well as over 3,800 pages from the Annual Reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior from 1851 to 1908 and six Indian treaties negotiated in 1855."

• Earth/matriX Science in Ancient Artwork "Dedicated to
  the preservation of human knowledge in the arts and sciences,
  and to the advancement of human survival and to that of our
  planet in a world threatened by our own development."
  • Earth/matriX Science in Ancient Artwork Series "Titles
    of essays and extracts published in the Earth/matriX series
    on the mathematical and geometrical analyses of ancient artwork."

• The University of Minnesota Duluth * College of Liberal Arts
  • Welcome to Tom Bacig's Home Page "Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Humanities/Classics." Frontier Heritage ~ AmS 1041. "Welcome to the Frontier Heritage Homepage. This course is designed to acquaint you with the history of the North American frontier as reflected in the music, art, literature and film we will examine this quarter. Some of the common threads in these portrayals of frontier experience are related to the "character" or "nature" of Americans and Canadians. In addition, the frontier seems to be one of the chief sources of archetypes and stereotypes that inform and infect our culture; it is the ground where European culture met and was reformed by the indigenous cultures of the Americas."
    • American Frontier Indians in the 1800's
      By the students of Tom Bacig
  • Tim Roufs "...teaches Prehistoric Cultures, Culture and Personality, Cross-Cultural Adaptation, Advanced Composition, Ancient Middle America, and Cultural Anthropology. Tim's specializations include cultural anthropology, Middle America, culture and personality, sociocultural change -- applied, and prehistoric cultures." Today in History

• Native American History Class Projects "Documentary editing projects developed in collaboration between students in Professor Peter Wood's Native American History class and The Digital Scriptorium." Duke University Durham, North Carolina
  • Resources in Native American Studies
  • Cherokee Nation of Okla. v. Leavitt & Leavitt v.
      Cherokee Nation of Okla. (consolidated)

• Teaching About Thanksgiving
  "As Provided by the Fourth World Documentation Project"

• Massacure of 1890 "Wounded Knee" On the MSNBC web site!
  • In Their Own Words...
  • Telegrams Journals and Newspapers
  • Ghost Dance
  • Siege of 1973

• Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development
  "Founded by Professors Stephen Cornell and Joseph P. Kalt at
  Harvard University in 1987, the Harvard Project on American
  Indian Economic Development (Harvard Project) is housed
  within the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at the
  John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University."

• Spanish Exploration and Conquest of Native America
• Native American Conquest "This is the story of America in the 1540's, long before the Pilgrims landed. It is based on centuries of research and field tracking of Conquistadors through 14 Midwestern and Southern States. It radically departs from any translation of America's Earliest Written History."
  PARENTS: Why this is not taught in School
  • Dynamic Explorers 'America's First Teen History Channel' "This Internet Page tells about America when Europeans and Africans first arrived."
  • Conquest Records, by Place "Enter a place name (your City or State, or a River, Mountain or Region near you) in the Box and press the Button. Articles from these files, containing that name, will be listed."

• American Indian Culture Research Center: Of the Blue Cloud Abbey, Marvin, South Dakota. "The principal purpose of the Center is to inform the general public of the world view, the philosophy of life, the spiritual insight of Native Peoples."
  • Women's Issues "from "The Wind River Rendezvous"
  • Articles on the Culture of the Dakotas & Lakotas
  • Myths (Story Telling)
  • Articles on Spirtiual Heritage

• Carl Albert Center Home "...at the University of Oklahoma provides instruction and promotes scholarship related to the history, structure, processes, personnel, and policies of the United States Congress." Archives ~*~ Native Americans And Public Policy "A Guide to Resources at the Carl Albert Center Congressional Archives."

• Oklahoma Historical Society ~*~ Museums & Sites
  • Archives And Manuscripts
  • OHS Library
  • Online - Bookstore - By Mail

• Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department, Oklahoma City, OK
  • A Look at Oklahoma 'A Student's Guide' ~*~ Facts ~*~ Emblems
  • Oklahoma's History ~*~ Oklahoma's Heritage ~*~ Native People

• Western Historical Manuscript Collection: "Columbia University of Missouri / State Historical Society of Missouri" Search! Try using the key words "Native American Indian", "Cherokee", "Black Cherokee", "Freedmen/Freedman".

• The Alaska Native Curriculum and Teacher Development Program "NSCTD brings together teams of teachers, elders, and community members in various parts of Alaska with university-based specialists to develop curricula on Alaska Native studies and language that is available to all schools through the internet or on CD. The project is supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education. People working on this project are geographically dispersed, from Juneau to Anchorage, Chevak to Kotzebue, Kiana and Fairbanks."

• The Alaska Native Knowledge Network "Designed to serve as a resource for compiling and exchanging information related to Alaska Native knowledge systems and ways of knowing." (sponsored by Alaska Federation of Natives, University of Alaska, National Science Foundation, Annenberg Rural Challenge)

• Religion, Society & Culture "In Newfoundland Labrador"
  • Native Religions "Native Religions of Newfoundland and Labrador: Maritime Archaic, Beothuk, Micmac, Inuit and Innu."

• Fort Steele Heritage Town Virtual Orientation Centre
  • Education Programmes Fort Steele offers the following seven educational programmes: The First Spike, Gold Fever, Home Sweet Home, Schoolhouse Days, Ktunaxa Native Ways, Overnight at Kootenay Post, Ring the Anvil

• Year-Long Project College of Education, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Mini-Unit Topic: Native Americans Karri Smith (Fall '94)
  • Exemplary Lesson Plans By the Assistant Teachers in the 1996-1997 YLP
    • "Thanksgiving" By Caren Schaffer (1996-97)

• California State University, Long Beach * American Indian Studies
  "This world wide site is a developing site supervised by Professor Troy Johnson and is dedicated to the presentation of unique artwork, photographs, video and sound recordings which accurately reflect the history, culture and richness of the Native American experience in North America and has been expanded to include Indian people of Central America and Mexico."
  • Alcatraz Occupation: The Story
  • Alcatraz Occupaion in photographs
  • The Native American Experience
  • The Navajo (Din'e) "Photographer Ilka Hartmann's collection..."
  • Theodore De Bry Copper Plate Engravings
  • Powwow "A gathering of North American Indian tribes at California State University, Long Beach on April 28, 1990."

• Colonial Williamsburg "At Colonial Williamsburg, the 18th century comes to life."
  • Contents *** Resources for Teachers and Students
    • Colonial Williamsburg Journal
      • Old Muddy James and the Flow of History
      • Captain John Smith by Dennis Montgomery

• Arctic Studies Center "A 9,000 year old skeleton found near Kennewick, Washington may radically change our theories about the peopling of the New World." (Congress provided funding for the Arctic Studies Center in 1988 as a permanent program for northern research and education within the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution.)
  • Northern Clans, Northern Traces "Journeys In The Ancient Circumpolar World"
  • Play Polar Pairs! A new Java game tests your memory and gives fun facts about Arctic animals. [**Note: Java capable browser neccesary such as Netscape 3.x]

• A Melungeon Home Page ~*~ Research

• PBS ONLINE Try doing a Search using the keywords "Indian Tribe", "Indian Gaming", or "Cherokee Nation", just for starters!
  • Welcome to The West "New Perspectives on THE WEST pioneers a new dimension in educational outreach support." An Introduction to the Web Site
  • Archives of THE WEST *** "Episode Eight 1887-1914"
    • The Dawes Act (1887) "Congress decrees an end to tribal homelands."
    • Indian Policy Reform: "President Chester Arthur on legislation needed to dissolve "the tribal bond, which is so prominent a feature of savage life" (1881)"
    • Wovoka's Message: The Promise of the Ghost Dance
    • Mrs. Z. A. Parker, the Ghost Dance "at Pine Ridge Reservation (1890) -- an eyewitness account."
  • The Dakotas "Locator Maps Including Information: The Black Hills, Deadwood, Fort Buford, Standing Rock Reservation, The Upper Missouri River, Wounded Knee!"
  • Sand Creek "On November 29, 1864, John Chivington led the Colorado Volunteers in a dawn attack on Black Kettle..."
    • Black Kettle Southern Cheyenne Chief
    • Lakota Accounts of the Massacre at Wounded Knee "From the Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1891, volume 1, pages 179-181. Extracts from verbatim stenographic report of council held by delegations of Sioux with Commissioner of Indian Affairs, at Washington, February 11, 1891."
    • Documents on the Sand Creek Massacre (1856-1864) Eyewitness Account of the Sand Creek Massacre (1864)

• Rocky Mountain PBS ~*~ Pride in Native American Heritage
  "November commemorates the proud heritage and contributions of Native Americans. Rocky Mountain PBS presents programs on the arts, tradition and heroism."
  • Tears in the Sand 1864. "Colorado territory. An atmosphere of greed and glory-seeking leads to a brutal massacre that will change the West forever…"
  • Tears in the Sand Interview Overview. * " Rocky Mountain Legacy is honored to have two interviews with tribal historians and descendants of the survivors of the Sand Creek Massacre. Listen to their words and the stories passed down by the elders."
  • Interview with Shermann Goose 'Clinton, Oklahoma ~ November, 1996'
    "Shermann Goose, an elder of the Southern Cheyenne Nation, describes the massacre at Washita, Cheyenne migration to the South, their relationship with the white men, the role of the scout, and the ensuing events at Sand Creek. Shermann Goose, passed away not long after this interview was conducted. Our condolences to his family, friends, and fellow members of the Southern Cheyenne Nation. He is greatly missed."
  • Interview with John Sipes, Jr. 'Norman, Oklahoma ~ November, 1996'
    "John Sipes, Jr. trusted by the elders to pass on their story, John creates a vivid picture of the Sand Creek Massacre and the following years for his great-grandmother, Mochis, a survivor of Sand Creek and later a female Cheyenne warrior. He examines the events of the past in the context of known facts, and the challenges facing the Cheyenne people today."

• the History net also provides a Text Menu! * Site Search
  "For a more focused search, please try our article index search."
  • American History * Civil War * World War II * Eyewitness Accounts
    • Warriors for the Union By Deborah Nichols and Laurence M. Hauptman
    • An Ungrateful Nation: by George McColm "While working as an agricultural expert for the Bureau of Indian Affairs after WW II, the author co-wrote a report that revealed the desperate plight of the Navajo people who lived on the brink of starvation in the American Southwest."

• 4Directions Challenge "Focuses on integrating Native American culture and technology into education in a way that enables students to maintain and learn their heritage while taking full advantage of their future."

• Augustana College Library "Special Collections" "Local history through primary source material; images, letters and documents. Civil War diaries!"
  • Native Americans "Photographs taken by John Hauberg of Western Illinois Native Americans, including descendants of the famous warrior, Black Hawk"

• Kue kue kassinu Innut ute Nitassinan!
  • Information About Innu History and Culture
  • Historic Innu Photographs
  • Innu Women's Page "Innu women throughout Nitassinan contribute to this page."

• 1492: An Ongoing Voyage, "The dramatic events following 1492 set the stage for numerous cultural interactions in the Americas which are still in progress - a complex and ongoing voyage."

• Tarleton State University: "A public coeducational institution, has provided a broad-based education."
  • Ken Jones' Eclectic Projects Page: Dr. Kenneth W. "Ken" Jones - University Librarian, Dick Smith Library, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX
    • Union Regimental Histories Directory, All States
    • Confederate Regimental Histories All States
    • Naval Forces in the Civil War Directory Index of Civil War Naval Forces, Confederate and Union Ships

• Old West Legacy's Little Bighorn Trading Cards "This premier collector's set is printed in full color and consists of a 45-card historically accurate set, three maps and the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868."

• Social Studies School Service ~*~ No Frames Path "SSSS has been a leader in educational resources since 1965, searching out the highest quality supplementary learning materials, including books, CD-ROMs, videos, laserdiscs, software, charts, and posters."

• SABIO The University of Arizona, Library Information Gateway
  • Search the U. of A. Library World Wide Web site
  • Searching the U. of A. Library World Wide Web Server

• Everybody's Looking for Something "As long as you're looking up, maybe I can help. My name is Tom Shoemaker and I teach Religious Studies and Philosophy here at Mesa Comunity College."
  • American Indian Religions (REL 203)

• Center For Bison Studies Montana State University-Bozeman
  • Current Research on Bison Issues

• National Wildlife Federation (**Note: Try the Search Engine using the keyword "Bison"!)
  • Welcome to Animal Tracks®, a classroom education program of the National Wildlife Federation. "The National Wildlife Federation has been helping teachers teach for over sixty years. We believe working with educators is a fundamental component to building a generation of informed, talented and concerned young people. Let us help you too..."

• ReD EyE TeleViSioN "We regard the explanation of the world in itself as our most important task." --Dziga Vertov
  • Documentaries by Deb Wallwork "These documentaries are distributed by: Vision-Maker Video phone: 1(800) 835-7087" c/o Native American Public Telecommunications ~*~ Titles

• The World Wide Web Virtual Library
  • Aboriginal Studies WWW Virtual Library: The Internet Guide to Aboriginal Studies
  • Indigenous Studies: "The Center For World Indigenous Studies (CWIS) is pleased to play a role in the development of the World Wide Web Virtual Library."

• The Northwest Rebellion of1885 A database of materials held by the University of Saskatchewan Libraries and the University Archives
  • Historical Background

• Historical Maps of the United States: The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection At The University of Texas at Austin

• The Association for History and Computing
  • Teaching material for Historians
    • The American Revolution: (a HTML-project in collective authoring) "From Revolution to Reconstruction and what happened afterwards"
    • Other Available Texts: (**NOTE: List of texts such as in the example below!)
      • Autobiography of Geronimo: His Own Story; Part I: The Apaches, Part II: The Mexicans, Part III: The White Men, Part IV: The Old and the New Part IV: (The American Revolution - an .HTML Project)

• Anasazi Archaeology
  • Why Anasazi? "The term most people use is 'Anasazi' (Ah-nah-sah-zee), a Navajo word usually translated as 'the Ancient Ones.' Most Navajo will tell you that this is a mis-translation, and that the word actually means 'Ancient Enemies.' Another interpretation favored by some Navajo is 'Ancient Ancestors.'"
  • Anasazi Heritage Center
  • The Ute Mountain Tribal Park is part of the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Reservation.

• Discovery Channel
  • School Store "What could be better than taping an Assignment Discovery or TLC Elementary School program?"
  • American Frontiers "American history is a kaleidoscope of images."
    • Social Studies U.S. History
    • How the West Was Lost "This program contains four parts on the history of conflict over land rights between four Native American tribes and the United States government. Each segment is 15 minutes long."
      • Curriculum Support Materials for "How The West Was Lost" Academic Standards, Program Highlights, Vocabulary, Discussion Questions, Related Resources
      • Related Resources "This page contains a variety of resources to enhance your use of this program, including Internet links..."

• Jim Thorpe: Athlete of the Century Campaign (1888-1953) Read "Jim Thorpe, World's Greatest Athlete" by Gregory Richards. Foreward by Grace Thorpe.
  • Printable petition: declaring Jim Thorpe "America's Greatest All Around Athlete of the Century".

• Welcome to North Georgia ~*~ Index: "Features Cherokee, Creek, and Moundbuilders that called North Georgia home."
  • North Georgia History
  • The Cherokee Nation "The Cherokee Nation, largest of the Five Civilized Tribes of the Southeast, is a people of Iroquoian lineage. The Cherokee, who called themselves "Ani'-Yun' wiya" or "Principal People", migrated to the Southeast from the Great Lakes Region."
  • Cherokee History Part I
  • Cherokee History Part II
  • North Georgia's Gold Rush
  • Talking Leaves and the Cherokee Phoenix
  • The "Trail of Tears"
    • Map of the "Trail of Tears" "The route they traversed and the journey itself became known as "The Trail of Tears" or, as a direct translation from Cherokee, "The Trail Where They Cried" ("Nunna daul Tsuny")."
  • Northwest Georgia's Chieftains Trail "The Chieftains Trail was designated by the 1988 Georgia General Assembly a state historic trail for the purpose of preservation, promotion and commemoration of Northwest Georgia's Native."
    • Cherokee History Links and Resources

• Georgia Before Oglethorpe 'A Resource Guide to Georgia's Early Colonial Period 1521-1733' "A one-stop source for current information about the state of Georgia's little-known first two centuries after first European contact. My intent in this site is to provide visitors with a wide range of resource materials, historical and otherwise, for research into the almost-forgotten era of Georgia history when American Indians, Spanish missionaries, and English traders briefly shared the land now known as Georgia." Site by John Worth
  • Letter Written by Georgia Indian Agent, Benjamin Hawkins
    (Original letter in the Georgia Department of Archives and History.)

• Encyclopedia Mythica: An Encyclopedia On Mythology, Folklore, Legends, And More...
  • Explore: Browse through the encyclopedia topics, such as Mythologies including, Mayan, Native American, Welsh or choose Folklore...

• The Systemic Teacher Excellence Preparation Project: STEP is designed to produce broad changes in the teaching of science and mathematics throughout the state of Montana.
  • Montana's Seven Tribal Colleges
    • Fort Belknap College: Online Catalog

• "SO SINGS The BLUE DEER" Book by Charmayne McGee
  Learn of the Huichol Indian Tribe

• Dr. Tom's Home Page Thomas W. Kavanagh (Bio)
  Curator of Collections Mathers Museum Indiana University
  • Reading Photographs: Comanche Domestic Architecture
    On Medicine Creek, Indian Territory, Winter 1872-73
  • Reading Photographs: The Wanamaker Collection
  • Reading Photographs: The Strange Case of The Painted Dresses
    {Or, The Ritual Context of Southern Arapaho Painted Clothing}
  • Reading Photographs: Visualizing the Ghost Dance
    Imaging and Imagining the Ghost Dance: James
    Mooney's Illustrations and Photographs, 1891-1893
    • Mooney's Published Illustrations of the Ghost Dance
    • The Photographs ~ more photographs ~ The Crow Dance
  • Reading Photographs: Pawnee Images
  • Shameless Plug: Comanche Political History
  • The Comanche Census Lists, 1879-1901
  • Playing a Numbers Game: Counting the Comanches

• Alaska Native Knowledge Network: sponsored by Alaska Federation of Natives University of Alaska National Science Foundation

• The Arctic Circle is commonly associated with the 66th parallel - a geographic ring crowning the globe. A broader definition includes the Arctic and Subarctic regions of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Scandinavia, Siberia and the Russian Far East. Text Path
  • History & Culture graphical or Text Path

• Arctic Research Consortium of the United States ~ Fairbanks, Alaska
  "ARCUS is a non-profit corporation consisting of institutions organized
  and operated for educational, professional, or scientific purposes."
  • ArcticInfo: Subscribe to ArcticInfo by sending an email
    to arcticinfo-sub@arcus.org. Include your name, affiliation,
    address, phone, fax and email address in the body of the email.

• First Nations House of Learning "University of British Columbia has a strong First Nations Community that is centred around the First Nations Longhouse. This amazing building was built as a "home away from home" for First Nations students."
  • NITEP ~ Native Indian Teacher Education Program

• First People's Centres on Schoolnet.
• U'mista Culture Centre "The U'mista Cultural Society was incorporated under the British Columbia Societies Act on March 22, 1974. Since that time it has worked towards fulfilling a mandate to ensure the survival of all aspects of the cultural heritage of the Kwakwaka'wakw." Located in Alert Bay, northern Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada **Totem Poles from the Photographic Collection:
  • http://www.schoolnet.ca/aboriginal/umista1/pics/etotem.jpg
  • http://www.schoolnet.ca/aboriginal/umista1/pics/atotem.jpg

• University of Saskatchewan ~*~ Native Studies Department "Native Studies represents a multi-disciplinary program of study. It aims at a thorough academic examination of all aspects of Indian, Metis and Inuit societies in Canada, and offers a comparative analysis of Indigenous issues globally. Presently we are one of the fastest growing departments in the College of Arts and Sciences." Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

• Fallen Timbers Battlefield Archaeological Project:
  "This site is located on the Heidelberg College server."

• Indian Education Services Home Page "Information from ( NWREL) Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory and other online sites are organized into several categories. The sites are chosen because they are well researched and regularly updated."

• Southwestern Pottery and Turquoise in Northeastern Texas: by David H. Jurney and William Young [Paper presented at the 37th (1995) Caddo Conference, Austin, Texas]

• Maya Astronomy Page

• Thanksgiving, History, Plymouth, MA: The Truth about the Pilgrims and the Native Americans at the "First" Thanksgiving in 1621.

• Culteral Resources/1996 Fire Season: Written By Larry Kibbey

• INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES (ILT)
  • ILT Web Page
  • Native American Navigator
  • Native American Tribes, Culture Areas, & Linguistic Stocks Map
  • The K-12 Educational Resources: on ILTweb are being developed to support the Advanced Media in Education Projects ("AME")
  • American History Archive Project
    • American Revolutionary War Timeline
      • (1754-63) The French and Indian War
      • (8/3/1795) The Greenville Treaty
    • The Native American History Archive: A New Center for Native American Studies in Internetworked Classrooms
      • Tribe Finder In graphical map form to find specific tribe locations.

• The Gale Group "World Headquarters, Farmington Hills, MI" "Founded 1954, in Detroit, Michigan by Frederick Gale Ruffner, with the publication of the now-classic Encyclopedia of Associations, Gale Research, an International Thomson Publishing Information/Reference Group Company. The company established a reputation for producing comprehensive, easy to use and accurate reference books."
     * Women's History ~ Biographies
  • Wilma Pearl Mankiller: b. 1945 - American Tribal Chief
  • Nancy Ward: c. 1738-1824 - Cherokee Tribal Leader
  • Anna Mae Aquash: 1945-c. 1976 - American social activist
  • Louise Erdrich: b. 1954 - American writer

• Fellowship Office National Research Council

• American Indian Ethnobotany Database Foods, Drugs, Dyes, and Fibers of Native North American Peoples. Materials provided by Dan Moerman, Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan-Dearborn.

• ARCHIVING EARLY AMERICA "The Internet's unique resource for early America."
  • Milestone Historic Documents
    • **NOTE: The following documents mention the People at least once!
    • Jay's Treaty: Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation, between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America, by their President, Ratified June 24, 1795.
    • The Northwest Ordinance: An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio.
    • The First State-Of-The-Union Address: Thursday, January 21, 1790.

• Agricultural Genome Information Server
  • About FoodplantDB Food Plants of Native Americans
  • FoodplantDB: Search Data Base
  • About MPNADB Medicinal Plants of Native Americans
  • MPNADB: Search Data Base

• The Tube: "We want to provide you with information, graphics, and movies about the shows we produce at Twin Cities Public Television, as well as your favorite PBS shows." Saint Paul, Minnesota
  • KTCA Productions
  • KTCA Online Store Documentaries, Series, Music, Homeschool, ect..
    • Complete List
    • DAKOTA EXILE: A sequel to the critically acclaimed KTCA documentary, THE DAKOTA CONFLICT. "On the day after Christmas 1862, the United States hanged 38 Dakota men in Mankato, Minnesota and drove a people out of the state. The heroic story of their brave struggle to survive is told by the Dakota themselves." Narrated by Robbie Robertson
  • Archives
    • Wacipi - PowWow

• The National Park Service "Links to the Past"
  Discover ~*~ Help Yourself ~*~ Tools for Teaching ~*~ Get Involved
  • NPS: American Indian Liaison Office
  • Archeology and Ethnography Program
    • Kennewick Man
    • Ancient Architects of the Mississippi
    • The Mound Builders
    • Map: Indian Reservations in the Continental United States
  • Alcatraz Indian Occupation
    "We Hold the Rock: history of the Alcatraz Indian Occupation."
    • Alcatraz: Indian Occupation and the Government
      "Indians occupying Alcatraz encountered internal and external problems."
    • Alcatraz: Indian Occupation Ends
      "The end of the Indian occupation of Alcatraz, and its legacy."
  • Fort Scott National Historic Site ~*~ Permanent Indian Frontier

• Southeast Archeological Center National Park Service ~*~ Text Version
  • Outline of Prehistory and History in the Southeastern U.S. and Caribbean Culture Area with Reference to Relevant National Park Units in the Southeast Region*

• (NAPS) Native American Preparatory School Home Page: Bringing together the best academic principles with the strengths of traditional values and identities rooted in the students' tribal cultures.

• Heinemann World
  • Online Projects and Activities: Tales of Traditional Wisdom
  • Rigby Heinemann Keypals: Teachers and classes, Grades K - 8 Teachers and classes, Grades 9 - 12.
  • Rigby Heinemann Keypal Lists: Get in contact with teachers and classes from around the world, or individual students in the following age groupings: from age 5 - 10 years; 11 - 13 years; & 14 - 18 years!

• Willard Rhodes Collection: Field Recordings of North
  American Indian Music between 1940 - 1952 plus more!

• Peter D'Errico's Law Page & Native American Studies

• CollegeNet: Your source for admission information
  on colleges, universities, and graduate programs.

• Ethnobotany Database Learn about Traditional Native foods & plants,
  includes a recipe path. Site by Paula Giese

• Telnet To: Hartland Community Network For information regarding: The Origin and Development of the U.S.Constitution and More! (Login as bbguest, and go to the library.)

• Native American Electronic Text Resources on the Internet!

• Metro Net Library Consortium, Inc. is a virtual Consortium of eight Detroit suburban public libraries at ten sites in Wayne and Oakland Counties (suburban Detroit area), Michigan.
  • Exploring The World Wide Web: Not necessarily Native.

• Duke Street Community House - Melbourne Australi: A small community house in Sunshine, a suburb in Melbourne's western metropolitan region. Duke Street has a long history of community involvement, provision and educational leadership. It provides a range of services to the local and surrounding communities. We conduct a range of accredited educational courses as well as a broad range of exciting leisure programs at a low cost.