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Indigenous peoples – non-Canadian
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Biography
- General ethnology
http://tolatsga.org/Compacts.html
Geographic
Overview of First Nations Historieshttp://www.dickshovel.com/up.html
HREF="http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/crossroads/sec2/essay01.html">The
Americas to 1500http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/crossroads/sec2/essay01.html
http://www.curtis-collection.com/
Edward
S. Curtis’s North American Indianhttp://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/curthome.html
HREF="http://www.csulb.edu/gc/libarts/am-indian/woodcuts/">Indians of North
America: Theodore De Bry Copper Plate Engravingshttp://www.csulb.edu/gc/libarts/am-indian/woodcuts/
Gallery of the Open
Frontier: Native Americanshttp://gallery.unl.edu/
- Relations with Government and non-Natives
HREF="http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/crossroads/sec2/essay02.html">Contact:
Europe and America Meet, 1492-1620http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/crossroads/sec2/essay02.html
HREF="http://www.bloorstreet.com/300block/ablawleg.htm">Aboriginal Law and
Legislationhttp://www.bloorstreet.com/300block/ablawleg.htm
Kappler’s
Indian Affairs: Law’s and Treatieshttp://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/
http://www.tolatsga.org/alg.html
Indians and the
American Revolutionhttp://www.americanrevolution.org/ind1.html
In the
Beginning Was the Word: The Russian Church and Native Alaskan Cultureshttp://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/russian/russch0.html
- Political organization
- Economic activity
http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/features/croads/
- Social relations
Iroquois
Women: Status and Rolehttp://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/cws/article/viewFile/13888/12941
- Languages
http://www.native-languages.org/
HREF="http://archnet.asu.edu/archives/ethno/places/places.htm">Windham
County Algonquian Placenames as Locational Markers in Subsistence
Roundshttp://archnet.asu.edu/archives/ethno/places/places.htm
HREF="http://www.sil.org/silewp/1997/002/silewp1997-002.html">Valence and
Affix Ordering in Inupiatunhttp://www.sil.org/silewp/1997/002/silewp1997-002.html
- Religion and ritual
http://www.religioustolerance.org/nataspir.htm
Rituals
of the Native Americanshttp://www.experiencefestival.com/native_american_rituals
http://www.powwows.com/
- Traditions, myths and legends
HREF="http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/firstnations/myths.html">Creation
Stories and Mythshttp://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/firstnations/myths.html
Native
American Creation Cycleshttp://wsu.edu/~dee/CULAMRCA/CREATION.HTM
http://www.ilhawaii.net/~stony/loreindx.html
HREF="http://www.kstrom.net/isk/stories/stories.html">Aadizookaanag,
Dibaajimowin: Traditional and True Native American Storieshttp://www.kstrom.net/isk/stories/stories.html
HREF="http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/cgibin/toccer?id=MclMyth&tag=public&images=images/modeng&data=/lv1/Archive/eng-parsed&part=0">Myths
and Legends of the Siouxhttp://etext.lib.virginia.edu/cgibin/toccer?id=MclMyth&tag=public&images=images/modeng&data=/lv1/Archive/eng-parsed&part=0
http://www.indians.org/welker/iroquois.htm
http://www.indians.org/welker/abnaki.htm
http://www.indians.org/welker/blacfeet.htm
http://www.indians.org/welker/aleut.htm
Against
the Winds: American Indian Running Traditionshttp://www.peabody.harvard.edu/mcnh_running/default.html
http://www.dreamtime.net.au/
- Science and knowledge
http://aboriginalrights.suite101.com/article.cfm/indigenous_knowledge_systems
Using the Berry
Plants for Nutrition and Medicinehttp://www.indians.org/welker/berry.htm
- Recreation
http://www.nativetech.org/games/
HREF="http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/mcnh_running/games.html">Running
in the Past: Gameshttp://www.peabody.harvard.edu/mcnh_running/games.html
Native American
Lacrosse Resources and History on the Webhttp://www.e-lacrosse.com/na.htm
Lacrosse: An
Iroquois Traditionhttp://www.peace4turtleisland.org/pages/lacrossewise.htm
- Technology and material culture
Native Americans and the
Environmenthttp://www.cnie.org/nae/
Buffalo, the
Life and Spirit of the American Indianshttp://www.ilhawaii.net/~stony/buffalo.html
http://www.greatdreams.com/native/nativehsg.htm
Hair
Pipes in Plains Indian Adornment: A Study in Indian and White
Ingenuityhttp://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/BAE/bulletin164/tptoc.htm
http://www.nativetech.org/wampum/wamphist.htm
Tree
and Tradition: Brown Ash & Maine Native American Basketmakinghttp://www.umaine.edu/hudsonmuseum/tree.htm
http://www.chicagokayak.com/kayak_%20history.htm
- Particular groups and communities
Americas
HREF="http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/">Lewis
and Clark Expedition 95http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/
Northwest
Imagery: The Photography of Edward and Asahel Curtishttp://stories.washingtonhistory.org/curtis/index.shtml
http://lcweb.loc.gov/spcoll/055.html
Indian Peoples of
the Northern Great Plainshttp://www.lib.montana.edu/digital/nadb/
HREF="http://www.snowwowl.com/peoplesioux.html">A
Guide to the Great Sioux Nationhttp://www.snowwowl.com/peoplesioux.html
Lakota Wowapi
Oti Kin: Lakota Information Home Pagehttp://puffin.creighton.edu/lakota/
http://tolatsga.org/Cherokee1.html
HREF="http://www.pbpindiantribe.com/">Prairie
Band Powatomihttp://www.pbpindiantribe.com/
American
Indians of the Pacific Northwesthttp://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/wauhtml/aipnhome.html
HREF="http://borealis.lib.uconn.edu/ArcticCircle/HistoryCulture/Inupiat//">Inupiat
of Arctic Alaskahttp://borealis.lib.uconn.edu/ArcticCircle/HistoryCulture/Inupiat/
HREF="http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/academic/cult%5Fsci/anthro/Eskimos.html">The
Nunamiut Eskimohttp://www.mc.maricopa.edu/academic/cult%5Fsci/anthro/Eskimos.html
http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/features/croads/
Australasia
Australian
Indigenous Cultureshttp://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/indigenous/
http://www.aihw.gov.au/indigenous/index.cfm
Europe
HREF="http://borealis.lib.uconn.edu/ArcticCircle/HistoryCulture/samiindex.html">The
Sámi of Far Northern Europehttp://borealis.lib.uconn.edu/ArcticCircle/HistoryCulture/samiindex.html
An introduction to
the Sami peoplehttp://www.itv.se/boreale/samieng.htm
- Biography
http://www.indians.org/welker/leaders.htm
Aboriginal Faces of Saskatchewanhttp://www.sicc.sk.ca/faces/
Marginal Man:
Tracing Five Generations of a Blackfoot Family (1850-Present)http://www.indians.org/welker/margman.htm
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h3771.html
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