Indigenous Nations* - Internet Resources

Country Studies

Multinational

General

• The Arctic Council = Canada, Denmark ( Greenland, Faeroe Islands),
  Norway / Russia, Sweden, United States

• Center for World Indigenous Studies
  information about: educational programs and cources, a bookstore,
  archives, and an electronic library of documents

• Cultural Survival

• Library of Congress Country Studies

• Native American Resources
  essential site for researchers of Native American issues
  provides access to native organizations, business, media, music, culture,
  tribal colleges, native studies programs

• Native Web
  Indigenous Cultures Around the World

• Race and Ethnicity Online

• Researching Iindigenous Peoples Rights under International Law
  information is organized by research sources, specific geographic areas,
  and topics

North America

• Encyclopedia of North American Indians

• Campfire Stories with George Catlin
  an encounter of two cultures
  includes also lesson plans for grades 5 - 12

• Aboriginal Canada Portal
  is a single gateway to online resources, contacts, information
  for and about aborigional peoples
  provides links to national aborigional organizations,
  federal government departments
  organized by broad subject area: economic development, claims
  and treaties, health, policy, research, and statistics
  links to over 7,500 links

• The Bureau of Indian Affairs

• Indian and Northern Affairs Canada

North American

Primary Resources

• WWW Virtual Library - American Indians
  Index of Native American History Resources on the Internet
  huge!

• Canada's Digital Collections - First Peoples
  provides links to: resources in museums, schools, historical
  societies...
  also: art images, sound clips, and transcribed interviews

• The North American Indian

• Indian Land Cessions in the United States
  features 67 maps, schedules of treaties, and land cessions

• The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents
  describes aborigional societies and economics, cultural,
  demographic, and religious impact of conduct

• Kappler's Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties
  contains the fully searchable digitized text of all 7 volumes

• Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project
  provides access to constitutions, tribal codes, a digitized
  version of the Handook of Federal Indian Law ( 1941 )
  documents: Indian Land cessions, Indian Reorganization Act Era
  Constitutions and Charters

Latin America

and South America

• AILLA - The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America
  includes: narratives, ceremonies, oratories, conversations, and
  songs in the indigenous languages
  it also contains: grammar, dictionaries, ethnographies, and
  bilingual teaching materials

• AmazonWatch.Org
  contains digital maps, video clips, photos, reports, news
  clippings, annual reports

• LANIC - Latin American Network Information Center
  organized by topic as well as by country

• SAIIC The South and Meso American Indian Rights Center
  includes news, publications, and Full-text articles

Europe / Africa / Asia

• Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library

• APFT - Avenir des Peuples des Forest Tropicales
  focuses on Africa and Pacific-area countries
  this site provides: maps, publications, legal aspects, and
  bibliographies

• IPACC - The Indigineous Peoples of Africa Co-Ordinating Committee
  has an excellent introductory document "Who is Indigenous in Africa?"

• Tebtebba - Indigenous Peoples' International Centre for Policy Research
  and Education
  online documents, news briefs, maps, and links to other research
  sites

Oceania

• ATSIC The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Commission
  includes: news briefs, research reports and other online documents,
  maps, educational curriculum, and media

• Australian Institute of Aborigional and Torres Strait Islanders Studies
  resources include: bibliographies, publications, information about
  Native Title research, indigenous languages, and links to many more
  WEBSITEs

• Message Stick
  gateway to sites about indigenous Australians
  includes: business, arts, food, education, event listings,
  discussion forums

E - Periodicals

• Cherokee Observer.Org - archives back to 1997

• First Perspectives - News of indigenous Peoples of Canada
  current issues online

Mailing Lists

• NAGPRA - L - Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

• NATIVELIT - Native American Literature

• NATIVE - L - Native Cultures

Discussion Forums

• American Indian Tribe

• Potawatomi Language Issues Forum
  focus is the revitalization and preservation of the Potawatomi language

• Turtle Island Native Network Discussion
  scroll all the way down
  offers many discussion streams including: youth, events, elders,
  women, and other specific issues

Source *	most of the links appeared in: C & R L News, January 2004 / 19
Updated:	April 8, 2009