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Guide to Internet Resources in: Native American Literature and Culture

Techniques for Evaluating American Indian Websites  

I.  Meta Sites

III. Culture, Rituals, Religion, etc.

II. History

IV. Native American Literature

     -- Meta Sites for History

      -- Meta Sites for Literature

     -- Chronologies / Maps

      -- Native American Authors

     -- Legal Documents

      -- Individual Author Sites

     -- Battles or Massacres

V.  Media:  Film, video, newspapers, online discussion groups, and more.

VI. Museums

     -- Indian Removal

     -- Recent History/Activism-Organizations

I.  Meta-Sites

Index of Native American Resources on the Internet 

 

Internet Resources in Native American Studies

 A major site - useful for teachers.

Native American Indian Resources.   

 

Native American Sites  

"Resources for Indigenous Cultures around the World" including archived online discussions called NativeLit-L.  Provides links to Tribal websites, Newspapers, Businesses, Museums.

Oklahoma Web Resources: American Indians.

 Maintained by OSU-School of Journalism and Broadcasting, this well organized site includes links for Tribes, Languages, Government Agencies, Oklahoma-specific resources as well as national sites.

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II. History

 

-- Meta-Sites for History  

American Indian History and Related Issues  

Native Americans on the Internet - History Resources

Links to primary sources (documents, drawings, maps and images)

-- Chronologies / Maps

 

Chronology of North American Indian History, in three parts (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader):  Prof. Jennifer Spear of U Cal - Berkeley.

Section 1.  Native North America               (Circa 52,000BP-Before Present to pre-1400)

Section 2.  Invasions and Colonization         (1000 - 1783)

Section 3.  From Separation to Assimilation  (1633 - 1920)

Timeline of 20th Century Indian Activism and Federal Efforts to Enact Self Determination 1944 to the Present

Maps:  GIS Windows on Native Lands, Current Places and History

-- Legal Documents

Indian Affairs:  Laws and Treaties  Kappler Project Digital Collection)  Covers the period from 1902 to 1971. An historic study first published by the Government Printing Office in 1902.  Useful for margin notations and comprehensive index.

Relations Between the United States and Native Americans  

 (Yale Law School's Avalon Project)

-- Battles or Massacres

 

Indian Wars:  site 1   site 2  

Battle of Little Big Horn

 

Black Hawk War  

 

Wounded Knee

This beautifully designed site is part of the Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project.

-- Indian Removal

 

Indian Removal Through Arkansas, 1830 - 1849 

Native Americans - Primary Sources  

Includes eyewitness accounts, images, maps and more.  

-- Recent history and activism - Organizations, etc.

 

Alliance for Native American Indian Rights

American Indian Movement

 

Indian Defense League

 

Leonard Peltier Defense Committee

 

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III.  General Sites for Culture, Rituals, Religion, etc.

 

Academic Info Native American Studies Art & Culture 

Native American Ethnobotany Database  

 Plants used as drugs, dyes etc. by Native Americans.

Information on Individual Native Nations  

 

Native Languages Page

 

Native Languages Page II

 

MLA/Native Languages Page

 

Recommended American Indian Websites Diversity & Ethnic Studies

 

National Indian Child Welfare Association

 

National Museum of the American Indian

  (Affiliation: Smithsonian Institution).

Tahtonka.com - Religion, Rituals, Myths and Legends 

 

Gladys Tantaquidgeon, Historically Renowned Mohegan Medicine Woman

 

Virtual Religion Index - Native Americans 

Rutgers University, Religion Department

Amnesty International Site for Native American Women

 

Internship Possibilities

Consider an internship at the Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center and the Women's Lodge

Internship Possibilities II

 The NENA Institute located in Worcester, MA could prove a good internship site. SEE ALSO Section VI on MUSEUMS...the Pequot and Mohegan museums are also favorable ideas for students interested in native/museum studies.

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IV.   Native American Literature

Also useful are online journals: 
American Indian Quarterly: online on the World Wide Web - articles from 2000 and 2001.  From Library Home Page - Online Databases - InfoTrac - Expanded Academic ASAP database has full text articles from March 1997.

SAIL: online journal published by the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures.

 

-- Meta Sites for Literature

Association of the Study of American Indian Literatures (ASAIL)
Dr. D. Reese's American Indian/Childrens' Literature Page  

Indigenous People's Literature

Index of Native American Book Resources on the Internet

 

Index of Native American Electronic Text Resources on the Internet  

 

University of California Library Books Documenting the History of Native American Literature

 

Native American Authors Project  

 

Native American Page

 

Native American Women Playwrights Archive

 

Storytellers: Native American Authors Online

 

Voices from the Gaps

Women Writers of Color (page maintained by the University of Minnesota)

The Clan System Our Way

 Ojibwe/Chippewa Play

American Indian Children's Literature Blogspot

 

-- Individual Author Sites  Check all the sites in the Native American Authors section above, as well.

Alexie, Sherman

Howe, LeAnne:  site 1; site 2; site 3

Benson, Robert 

Momaday, N. Scott:  site 1; site 2

Black Elk

Ortiz, Alfonso Alex

Black Hawk (and Black Hawk War)

Ortiz, Simon J.

Deloria, Vine

Owens, Louis

Erdrich, Louise

Silko, Leslie Marmon

Glancy, Diane

Tapahonso, Luci

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V. Media

Film and Video: Native American Film Festival, The Native American Film Festival.

American Indian News Source

Western Shoshone Defense Project

VideoWWW Virtual Library - American Indians; NativeVideos.com

News and Events: Indianz.com provides news on issues and events of interest to Native Americans.

Newspapers, journals and more:  can be found online at Index of Native American Media (from the WWW Virtual Library-American Indian) and Native American Sites - Media (a section of the American Indian Library Association Web Page).

Publisher and bookseller: The Native Book Centre from Canada

Email discussion list: NativeLit-L - an email discussion list and bulletin board posting news and information.

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VI. Museums

Images of Indians at the Huntington Museum

Museum at Deerfield

Mohegan Museum

Musuem at Mashantucket (Foxwoods)

(Above Links prepared by Professor Pauline Woodward and Halle Library Reference Librarians, Updated July2007.)

Professor Woodward's ENG 377 Topical Outline

What is the meaning of home?

Urban Native Americans:  Check Library Catalog and Online Databases  

Who am I, where is my land, and what language do I speak?

Index of Native American Resources on the Internet 

Native American Sites : Mascot Issue; Individual Indian Nations; Languages

Where is justice?

Encyclopedia of American Indian Civil Rights   Ref KF8210 .C5 E53 1997

The ABC-CLIO Companion to the Native American Rights Movement   Ref KF8203.36 .G76 1996

Alliance for Native American Indian Rights

American Indian Movement

Indian Defense League

Leonard Peltier Defense Committee

TOPICAL OUTLINE for ENG 337:
Storytelling and structure in Tracks by Louise Erdrich, Ojibwa
Narrativity and myth in Erdrich's novel
Land appropriation (Jace Weaver)
Environmental concerns (Winona Laduke)
Family and community in Tracks (Erdrich)
Ojibwa history (Gerald Vizenor)
Christianity in Ojibwa ceremony (Basil Johnston)
Defining American Indian Literature (Jace Weaver)
Humor as means of survival (Vine Deloria)
Writing the Literary Research Essay
Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, poem by Joy Harjo, Muscogee Creek
Writing about Aquash, Mi'maq (Devon Mihesuah, Choctaw)
Film "The Spirit of Annie Mae"
American Indian Movement
The Death of Jim Loney by James Welch, Blackfeet
Significance of the past/impact of mixed blood
Meaning of Jim Loney's life and death (James Purdy, Kathleen Sands)
Using the SAIL data base: http://oncampus.richmond.edu/faculty/ASAIL/indices.html
The Grass Dancer by Susan Power, Yankton Sioux
Parallel realities in Power's fiction (Lee Schweninger)
Intersecting communities in The Grass Dancer
Tonto and the Lone Ranger by Sherman Alexie, Spokane/Coeur d"Alene
Writing the Literary Research Essay

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