American indians and A Guide - Resources and Review

Art, culture, education, history and science resources relevant to Native Americans.
 
A preservation program established to restore and make available collections of historical recordings of spoken word and music. Provides access to inspirational music, songs, poems, and speeches from countries around the world, as well as recordings from every US state. RealPlayer is required for some material.
 
Collection of original photographs and documents describing native American culture along the Northwest coast and plateau. Information is provided about typical arts, work, transportation, dwellings, potlatches, education, and treaties. Essays about specific tribes such as the Alaskan Tlingit and the Nez Perce also feature.
 
Examines four Native American tribes, the Tlingit of the Northwest Coast, the Hopi of the Southwest, the Iroquois of the Northeast, and the Lakota of the Plains. Discusses various belief systems, philosophies, and the practical knowledge of Indian peoples, and offers teaching resources on related topics for specified age groups.
 
Organisation working to ensure the accuracy of historical and contemporary Native American literature by evaluating texts and resources in order to highlight anti
Indian information. Authentic publications are listed for various age groups, together with reference, multimedia, and teaching materials. A section entitled 'Books to Avoid' is also featured, with critical reviews of each title given.
 
Index to anthropology resources, including linguistics, physical anthropology, archaeology, and native American resources.
 
Bibliographic details of texts written by North American authors. Includes information about legends, poetry, history, autobiography, biography, periodicals, interviews, language resources, drama, fiction and music. Topic and keyword search facilities available.
 
Examines the trade history of Native Americans of the southwest through photographs from the special collections of the university's Cline Library, maps of Indian territories, and oral histories from Native American and white traders and residents who interacted with the Navaho. Includes information on products made and traded such as livestock, weaving, jewellery, and pinon nuts, and features a silent film of Navaho rug weaving.
 
Guide to native American authors and their work.
 
A not
for-profit organisation dedicated to the study of flags, their history, and their symbolism. Features the flags of Native American peoples, including information on the various tribes who have adopted the use of tribal flags.
 
Tables detailing the languages spoken in the countries of North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. Estimates of population currently speaking each language are included.
 
Collection of resources dealing with many aspects of American cultural studies, with an emphasis on Native and African American issues, as well as ideologies of cultural theory and theorists.
 
Catalogue of photographs, searchable by creator, title, subject, and collection. Includes images of life on the Navaho Reservation between 1895 and 1945 and photographs documenting four decades of people and events in southwest US. A finding guide helps with identifying and accessing digitised materials.
 
Materials relating to the anthropological, educational, and political issues involved in the teaching of indigenous languages. Provides full texts of scholarly studies, and reprints of articles on topics such as native language preservation, American Indian language policy, and models for teaching indigenous languages. Resource is keyword searchable and contains a set of links to bilingual, educational, and literary material.
 
Collections of maps, drawings, art work, photographs, and short descriptions documenting Native American experience from the first migrations from Siberia before 1600. Covers the occupation of Alcatraz Island in 1969, the Navajo Reservation, and tribal masks, and provides resources on Illini, the Taino nation, Lumbee Indians, and Ojibway culture.
 
Provides access to resources produced at the University of Oklahoma Law Centre such as American Indian Law Review, and the Native American Constitution and Law Digitisation Project. Also offers a selection of tribal, historical and cultural resources related to American Indians.
 
Index to native American languages, language families, conferences, discussions, legislative information, language institutions. Includes the languages of American Indians, Eskimos and Aboriginals.
 
Set of links to resources dealing with ethnic, native and nationalists affairs throughout Africa, America, Asia / CIS, Europe and Oceania.
 
Keyword searchable list of notable events in North American Indian history for each day of the year. Provides links to over 7000 related resources, information on tribal names and meanings, and Indian words for moon cycles and seasons.
 
Links to various resources in cultural, physical, and biological anthropology.
 
Dedicated to the French soldiers who came to New France between 1755 and 1760 to fight in the French and Indian War. Includes brief listings of the French soldiers and White Coats description.
 
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