Four Key Reports on Native Telecommunications
       Native Technologies, Media, and Collaborative Networks
       Community Technology Access Centers
       Native American Research Sites
       Native American Higher Education Sites

• Native American Federal Resources
  http://www.hud.gov/groups/nativeamericans.cfm
  HUD's good listing of Native American Federal Resources. HUD is funding community technology centers, too.
  

• Code Talk
  http://www.codetalk.fed.us
  A federal inter-agency Native American website that provides information for Native American communities. Code Talk is hosted by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Native American Programs. Native American and Alaskan Native links - http://www.codetalk.fed.us/AI_AN_links.html Many outdated links.
  

• Indian Health Service
  http://www.ihs.gov
  Their resources database is
  http://www.ihs.gov/misc/links_gateway/Links_Main.cfm
  An exceptional listing of governmental agencies supporting Native Americans.
  

• Bureau of Indian Affairs
  http://www.doi.gov/bureau-indian-affairs.html
  Includes listings of hot issues, topics of interest, offices and bureaus.

• U. S. Department of Agriculture Native American Links
  http://www.nal.usda.gov/ric/ruralres/nativeam.htm
  Includes resources for funding and program assistance and governmental
  agencies involved with supporting Native Americans.

• Native American Government links
  http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/indices/NAgov.html
  Over 100 governmental links.

• Native American Organizations
  http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/indices/NAorg.html
  Comprehensive listing of Native American organizations.

• Native American Organizations and Urban Centers
  http://www.nativeculture.com/lisamitten/organizations.html
  A second great listing of Native American organizations.

• Native American Rights Fund
  http://www.narf.org
  Resources on Native American rights.

• Indian Law Web Site
  http://www.indianlaw.org/
  Excellent resources on Indian Law.

• Federal Communications Commission Native Resources
  http://www.fcc.gov/indians/
  The Indian Telecom Training Initiative has a listing of distance education resources:
  http://www.fcc.gov/indians/internetresources/dl.html   The FCC will provide information to help tribal
  governments make decisions about telecommunications services for tribal residents
  and to increase their options for finding telecommunications service solutions.

• Federal Government Guide to Online Federal Services
  http://www.firstgov.gov
  A new service offering the complete listing of all online federal services.

• Native American/Alaskan/Hawaiian K-12 Computer and Internet Innovations -
  A Report for the U.S. Agency for International Development
  http://lone-eagles.com/usaid.htm (Web Version)
  To download the complete document in WORD 97 format – http://lone-eagles.com/luisrpt.doc

• Telecommunications Technology and Native Americans; Opportunities and Challenges
  http://www.ota.nap.edu/pdf/data/1995/9542.PDF
  Here's the first and last study on this topic by the Federal govt. This seminal report was created by talented people at former Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and is a 3 megabyte PDF file which requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view. If you click on this link it will begindownloading.

• Native Networking: Telecommunications and Information Technology in Indian Country
  http://www.benton.org/Library/Native
  A 1999 report from the Benton Foundation

• Assessment of Technology Infrastructure in Native Communities -- Final Report, July 6, 1999
  http://alpha.nmsu.edu/~tech
  From New Mexico State University.

• Hanksville Listing of Native American Media
  http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/indices/NAmedia.html
  A comprehensive listing of Native media sites of every description.

• Lisa Mitten's Listing of Native American Media
  http://www.nativeculture.com/lisamitten/media.html
  A second comprehensive listing of Native media sites.

• Nativenet
  http://niikaan.fdl.cc.mn.us/natnet
  A collection of discussion listservs on Native issues.

• Native American Public Telecommunications
  http://nativetelecom.org
  Focused primarily on public television and radio applications. New low power FM is here, a significant new development for Indian radio. Internet radio is an important new development, click on http://www.airos.org to listen to Internet radio. Requires the free downloadable RealPlayer software.

• Web boards and Listservs
  http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/indices/NAother.html#boards
  Scroll to the bottom of this listing of great 'other links" to find dozen links to Native networks.

• Listings of Native Networks
  http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/~jisekebarnes/aboriginal/othersites.html A short listings, but with important links to major Canadian networking resources as well as U.S. networks. From the exceptional listings of "Aboriginal Educational Resources on the Internet" http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/~jisekebarnes/aboriginal/index.html

• IndianNet: Service to help tribes get web pages on the Internet
  http://indiannet.indian.com
  A good place to start if you you're a newcomer to the web. 

• Igalaaq (The Rankin Inlet Community Access Centre)
  http://www.idrc.ca/acacia/nordicit/profiles/igalaaq.htm
  Thanks to the support of the people of Rankin Inlet, Nunavut and Industry Canada's Community Access Program (CAP - http://cap.ic.gc.ca   / ) we had great success in establishing the very first Community Access Centre in Canada's Arctic http://www.arctic.ca/LUS/CAC.html at the Leo Ussak Elementary School http://www.arctic.ca/LUS  . It is known as "Igalaaq", Inuktitut, the Inuit language, for window. In its first year of operation alone, Igalaaq hosted over 3,000 visits and helped to establish e-mail accounts who over 20% of Rankin Inlet's population of approx. 2,000 souls on the West coast of Hudson Bay. All of this in a community which is 85% Inuit and where many families still have members who were born on the land in skin tents and igloos. You can find more info. about this story at http://www.arctic.ca/LUS/CAC.html   where you can
  download a copy of the Igalaaq story in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

• Community learning network resources from Canada
  http://www.cln.org
  Many community education resources including: CLN Documents on Models and case studies for Canadian community learning networks.  Includes an extensive report on models and case studies of community learning networks in Canada. Over 15,000 community learning networks have been funded over the past decade.

Two sample grants you can use to begin your grant proposal

• Seventh Generation Community Initiative
  http://lone-eagles.com/articles/7gc.htm
  A concept paper offered as ideas you can use for your own
  grantwriting.You're invited to use the text of this document as a start on your own grant proposal.

• Community Bootstrap Project:
  Learning to Do for Ourselves; Together!
  http://lone-eagles.com/articles/boot2.htm
  Please feel free to use in your grants: without restriction.
  Boilerplate text for YOUR community networking grant.

• University of Michigan Gateway to Native American Resources
  http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/gateway/frametable.html
  Hundreds of resources listed in table format by category, but without live hyperlinks. Includes bibliographies, law, education, government, history, languages, indexes and more.

• Native American Bibliographies and General Resources
  http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/native.htm
  You will find bibliographies, directories to pages of individual tribes, history and historical documents, periodicals and general links. Site Administrator: Inez Ramsey, James Madison University

• American Indian History and Related Issues
  http://www.csulb.edu/projects/ais
  With well over 100 links, this site by Professor Troy Johnson is dedicated to the presentation of unique artwork, photographs, video and sound recordings which accurately reflect the history, culture and richness of the Native American experience in North America and has been expanded to include Indian people of Central America and Mexico.

• Native American Research Resources
  http://maple.lemoyne.edu/~bucko/indian.html
  While not extensive, this site sponsored by Rev. Bucko from the Jesuit College of Central New York holds many good resource links.

• American Indian Higher Education Consortium
  http://www.aihec.org
  Master listing of U.S. Tribal Colleges.

• AISES (American Indian Science and Engineering Society)
  http://www.aises.org  
  Their Multicultural Educational Reform Resources http://spot.colorado.edu/~aises/aises.html

• Alaskan Native Knowledge Network
  http://www.ankn.uaf.edu
  A major project supported by the National Science Foundation and the Annenberg Rural Challenge
  to collect and disseminate indigenous curriculum. Combining the Native way of knowing with scientific method.