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American Museum of Natural History: North American Collection
Over 48,000 objects and textiles represent North American Indians from the Arctic and sub-Arctic, the Pacific Northwest, California, the Southwest, the Great Plains, and the Eastern Woodlands
Index of Native American Resources on the Internet
Search using keywords or browse by subject.
Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties
Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler, is an historically significant, seven volume compilation of U.S. treaties, laws and executive orders pertaining to Native American Indian tribes. The volumes cover U.S. Government treaties with Native Americans from 1778-1883 (Volume II) and U.S. laws and executive orders concerning Native Americans from 1871-1970 (Volumes I, III-VII). The work was first published in 1903-04 by the U.S. Government Printing Office.
New York Public Library: After Columbus: Four-hundred Years of Native American Portraiture

Organizations

National Congress of American Indians
The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) was founded in 1944 in response to termination and assimilation policies that the United States forced upon the tribal governments in contradiction of their treaty rights and status as sovereigns. NCAI stressed the need for unity and cooperation among tribal governments for the protection of their treaty and sovereign rights.
Native American Finance Officers Association
UNITY: United National Indian Tribal Youth

Education

American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC)
American Indian Education Foundation
The American Indian Education Foundation will maintain its status as a growing, nationally recognized leader that supports Native American students enrolled in post secondary schools.
Bureau of Indian Education
BIE’s mission is to provide quality education opportunities from early childhood through life in accordance with a tribe’s needs for cultural and economic well-being, in keeping with the wide diversity of Indian tribes and Alaska Native villages as distinct cultural and governmental entities.
National Indian Education Association
The Mission of the National Indian Education Association is to support traditional Native cultures and values, to enable Native learners to become contributing members of their communities, to promote Native control of educational institutions, and to improve educational opportunities and resources for American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians throughout the United States.

Library of Congress Resources

Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian
The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis is one of the most significant and controversial representations of traditional American Indian culture ever produced. Issued in a limited edition from 1907-1930, the publication continues to exert a major influence on the image of Indians in popular culture. Curtis said he wanted to document "the old time Indian, his dress, his ceremonies, his life and manners."
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In over 2000 photogravure plates and narrative, Curtis portrayed the traditional customs and lifeways of eighty Indian tribes. The twenty volumes, each with an accompanying portfolio, are organized by tribes and culture areas encompassing the Great Plains, Great Basin, Plateau Region, Southwest, California, Pacific Northwest, and Alaska. Featured here are all of the published photogravure images including over 1500 illustrations bound in the text volumes, along with over 700 portfolio plates.
Images of Indians of North America
The Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division preserves and makes available more than 17,000 pictorial records of native peoples made chiefly by European and Euro- American artists and photographers. Most of these have documentary importance; some are also important to the artistic development of graphic art and photography.
Indians of North America: Selected Resources
This guide is a compilation of many of the resources on the Indians of North America available at the Library of Congress as well as selected resources outside the Library. They are organized by format. The purpose of this guide is to present researchers with selected sources through which they can begin and expand their scope of study of the Indians of North America.
Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
Use the search bar at the top to locate digitized images. Suggested search terms: american indian; north america indian

National Museum of the American Indian Resources

National Museum of the American Indian Homepage
Online Exhibitions
30+ online exhibitions that address the culture and history of native American cultures
Collections Search
Welcome to NMAI Collections Search, which includes a representative sample of NMAI's object and historic photo collections. To become familiar with the site, start with one of the Collection Highlight tours or search the website using this page or the tabs at the top. Note: you can search by people/culture/tribe

The American Indian Heritage Foundation Resources

The American Indian Heritage Foundation Homepage
Directory of Federally Recognized Native American Tribes
Search by region.

Music

Health

Tribal Health Research Office
"If you knew the conditions...": Health Care to Native Americans: an online exhibit from the National Library of Medicine
Native American Health page from MedlinePlus.gov
Native Health Database
The Native Health Databases contain bibliographic information and abstracts of health-related articles, reports, surveys, and other resource documents. The databases provide information for the benefit, use, and education of organizations and individuals with an interest in health-related issues, programs, and initiatives regarding North American indigenous peoples.
The Native Health History