Contemporary Native American Issues
and Useful Websites

 


Native American Authors Online  

Storytellers: Native American Authors Online, by Karen Strom

 

Internet Public Library, Native American Authors

Poetics and Politics--online transcriptions of a 1992 series at the University of Arizona, organized by Larry Evers and Ofelia Zepeda, which brought 13 acclaimed American Indian writers to campus. 

 

Words & Place: Native Literature from the American Southwest--a powerful online video collection of Navajo and Laguna songs, Yaqui deer songs, Hopi philosophy, Apache and Hopi trickster tales, as well as conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko and Vine Deloria Jr.

 

American Indians in Children's Literature, which critically discusses  American Indians in children's books, the school curriculum, popular culture, and society-at-large, is a valuable and insightful blog authored by Debbie Reese (Nambe Pueblo) of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

 

Native American Women Playwrights Archive


 Native American Cultures, Nations, Peoples  

Index of Native American Resources on the Internet, by Karen Strom

Native Languages of the Americas: Preserving and Promoting American Indian Languages

 

PowWows.com

 

Treaties, Mascots, and Current Issues  

Indian Country Today, an online version of an important Native news source

 

False Promises: The Lost Land of the Wenatchi is a website designed to complement a timely documentary film.  The photos page has some excellent historical materials.

 

STAR: Students and Teachers Against Racism is a website promoting cultural and historical awareness of Native Americans.

 

National Coalition on Racism in Sports and Media

 

"Current Mascot News" from the Native American House at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

 

Should Andrew Jackson be Removed from the $20 Bill?  Because of the devastations of Jackson's Removal policy, some American Indians have argued that he should not be honored by appearing on US currency.

 

The National Indian Law Library--an online set of legal resources, part of the Native American Rights Fund.

 

Anna Mae Pictou Aquash was an AIM activist who was murdered in 1975 (1976?) in South Dakota. 

Both Joy Harjo--"For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, Whose Spirit Is Present Here and in the Dappled Stars"--and Sherman Alexie--"Dreaming Anna Mae"--have written poems about her.  Learn more about  Anna Mae at the Anna Mae Archive and the Justice for Anna Mae and Ray site (which includes a helpful timeline).

 

Museums and Online exhibits

Museums at Prophetstown, Inc.  (see the link for the "Woodland Indian Settlement")--located in Battle Ground, IN

 

The Eiteljorg Museum--located in Indianapolis, includes both Western and Native art

 

National Museum of the American Indian (see information for both locations--NYC and Washington DC)

Online exhibits from the NMAI  

 

Heard Museum

 

"American Indians and the Natural World," from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History

 

Plains Indian Ledger Art Digital Publishing Project

 

Alaska Native Artists

"Images of Native Americans" from 1590 to 1996--an informative exhibit from the Bancroft Library at UC-Berkeley
 

AIROS Native Radio Network--listen to live broadcasts (using RealOne Player), or select a specific podcast.

 

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This page was last updated on 20 August  2008.  Direct questions/comments to Nancy J. Peterson.