20 Unique Examples of Native American Web Cultural Applications
Exceptional General Native American Link Listings
Cultural Organizations and Initiatives
Specific Unique Collections
Native American Classroom Resources
Native American Journals, Reports and Articles
Native American Listservs
Native Americans and Technology
Internet via Satellite and Wireless Companies and Projects
Native American Activism
Native American Law
Alaskan and Arctic Circle Sites

20 Unique Examples of Native American Web Cultural Applications

Alaskool Alaskan Native Curriculum
http://www.alaskool.org
Funded by grants, this is an example of how the web can be used to
collect and share Native curriculum for teachers and students.

Cyndi's amazing list of Native American Geneaology sites
http://www.CyndisList.com/native.htm  
An example of how one caring person can positively impact the lives of others
by gathering knowledge and sharing it via the Web. May well be the best such listing on the Web!

Choctaw Nation
http://www.choctawnation.com
Offers a free online course on the Choctaw language and much more!

Native American Artist’s Eshops
http://www.indianvillage.com
Free Ecommerce sites for Native American artists.
An example of how to facilitate widespread participation in Ecommerce.

Backflip.com http://www.backflip.com Or create free web pages at http://www.angelfire.com (Search here for Native American sites.)
An example of how ANYONE can publically share their bookmark listings here as Donna has done below!
"I've done both Native American English classes, as well as social studies.  I keep two folders on my
backflip site.  if you go to my main page, http://www.backflip.com/members/donnamh/
you will find a folder titled Native American lit
http://www.backflip.com/members/donnamh/6332882/sort=0/
and under social sciences, another listing titled Native Americans."

General Native American Links
http://members.aol.com/tawodi/indians.htm
An example of a family project, links collected by the Tawodi family.

Excellent Collection of Resources on Native Americans in Texas
http://www.texasindians.com/
Available on CD for kids not allowed on the Internet!
An example of how web-based content can be shared via CDROMs for those without Internet access.

Knife River Indian Village Earth Lodge (VR Movies)
http://stream.minot.k12.nd.us/
Two examples of 360 degree zoomable files...
of the inside of an earth lodge and a rooftop view of Minot, ND. Requires the Quicktime pluggin.

Virtual Museum of Inuit Art
http://culturel.org/NUNAVUT/
An example of how Quicktime 3D images and movies can teach the world about a Native culture via the Web.

An image database with over
1,500 images of Native American peoples
http://libmuse.msu.montana.edu:4000/NAD/nad.home  
Created via a initial partnership between the three campuses of MSU, the Museum
of the Rockies, and Little Big Horn College. An example of sharing images via the Web.

Canku Ota (Many Paths)
http://www.turtletrack.org
Many consider this e-zine "the best Native American site out there."
Includes a monthly newsletter, stories from many nations, kids' pages, and a
fabulous array of links.

Oneida Nation
http://one-web.org/
One of the first Native American nations to create a tribal web page, and to create a casino.
An example of sharing many different types of tribal information.

The Cherokee Nation
http://www.cherokee.org
An example of what a tribal community can do on the web, includes a newsletter.

First Nation's Radical Activism site
http://www.dickshovel.com/ 
An example of how one person can create and share a very good collection of resources on passionate issues

Teaching what the 'hang around the fort' cherokees don't want you to know
http://blueotter.addr.com/  http://blueotter.addr.com/intro.htm (Products for sale)
Another example of how one person create creatively share information.

Genealogy Resources! Madrid Family Home Page
http://spot.Colorado.EDU/~madridt/Home.html
Fantastic example of a family working together to create a resource for other families!
Create your own family Genealogy web page! Research YOUR family history!
While not Native American, any family can make a similar contribution to other families.

Leafarrow Storytellers Donna Couteau Cross and Joe Cross
http://leafarrow.tripod.com/index.html
An interactive show featuring coyote tales, creation stories and historic
folklore filled with tribal family values.

Aboriginal Youth Network
http://www.ayn.ca
The Aboriginal Youth Network is a website designed by and for
Aboriginal youth in the efforts to create and maintain a unique online
youth community nationwide. As more and more of our youth get
online, the AYN is working to ensure there is a place in cyberspace
where we can connect, make friends, access information, exchange
ideas, ideals, values, beliefs and above all, our cultures and traditions.

Database of Native Language Sites
http://www.yourdictionary.com
Online dictionaries and international language models.

Mt. Edgecumbe Native Boarding School, Sitka, Alaska
http://www.mehs.educ.state.ak.us
An exceptional model for electronic student portfolios and includes a
student-written tutorial on how to create such portfolios. The school is
expanding their entrepreneurship emphasis. The students creativity is
inspiring!

World History Archives: Indigenous Peoples of  the Americas
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/41/index-a.html

Multnomah County Library Megalisting of Native American Sites
http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/natamhc.html

Extensive Native American Resources!
http://www.nvo.com/ecnewletter/nationalamericanindianheritagemonth/  
From the excellent "Education & Computer Connection Newsletter

From About.com: Extensive Listings of Native American Resources
http://nativeamculture.about.com/culture/nativeamculture/?once=true&

General Native American Links
http://members.aol.com/tawodi/indians.htm
Collected by the Tawodi family.

Marilee's Native American Links
http://www.ameritech.net/users/macler/nativeamericans.html

National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage
http://www-ninch.cni.org 
Includes best practices examples for arts and humanities advanced computing and digital culture

Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage 
http://www.folklife.si.edu/ 

White House Initiative on Tribal Colleges and Universities
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OPE/TribalColleges/index.html

American Indian Heritage Fund
http://www.indians.org/index.html

American Indian Culture Research Center
http://www.bluecloud.org/dakota.html  

American Indian Ritual Object
Repatriation Foundation
http://www.repatriationfoundation.org/
An Intercultural Partnership

Center for Multilingual, Multicultural Research
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~cmmr/Native_American.html

Indigenous Organization Mailing Addresses
http://iisd1.iisd.ca/youth/ysbk146.htm

Native American Journals, Reports and Articles

Alaskan Tribal News
www.tribalnews.com

Native Village
http://www.nativevillage.org
Features two weekly publications: NV Drum and NV Youth and
Education News. Both condense today's news into an easy-to-read format. The
Youth and Education news also features educational opportunities,
scholarships, grants, and featured websites.

Canku Ota (Many Paths)
http://www.turtletrack.org
Many consider this e-zine "the best Native American site out there." The e-zine
includes a monthly newsletter, stories from many nations, kids' pages, and a
fabulous array of links.

Earth Mother Crying
www.wovoca.com
The Journal of Prophecy of Native Peoples Worldwide 

Native Americas Journal
http://www.nativeamericas.com
Hemispheric Journal of Indigenous Issues

California Indian Gaming News
http://www.pechanga.net  

Reports and Articles

Shaping the Destiny of Native American People by Ending the Digital Divide:
A Look at the Nation's Tribal Colleges and Universities
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0112.pdf

"American Indians try to bridge'digital divide' "
http://indiancountry.com/articles/commerce-2000-11-01-03.shtml
From  "Indian Country Today" magazine.

Assessment of Technology Infrastructure in Native Communties
http://www.doc.gov/eda/pdf/1G3_13_atinc.pdf

Cultural survival Quarterly issue on indigenous groups and the Internet
http://www.cs.org/publications/CSQ/csqinternet.html

Tribal Government Documents
http://www.zapme.com/net/class/gov/gov_tribal.html  

White House Initiative on Tribal Colleges and Universities
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OPE/TribalColleges/index.html

Native American Listservs

ICT education and First Nations/Native Americans   
If you wish to join, please email to nativeedtech-subscribe@topica.com

Native Truth newsletter
To subscribe to this group send a blank email to:
native_truth-subscribe@egroups.com

Indigenous Peoples Literature
http://www.indigenouspeople.org/natlit/
List URL:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indigenous_peoples_literature/messages

Indigenous Peoples Issues
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/I_P_I/messages

Racism Against Indigenous Peoples
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Racism_Against_Indigenous_Peoples/messages

Native American Stories
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ai_sal/messages

American Indian Prophecies
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ai_prophecies/messages

22 Email based discussion lists about Native American issues
www.topica.com    Search for "Native Americans."

Haa Ai E-mail List & Archive
http://www.egroups.com/group/haa-ai

Native net msg archives by month
http://www.nativenet.uthscsa.edu/archive/nn-dialogue/archive.html

Spirit Path
To subscribe to Spirit Path, send an e-mail to
spiritpath-subscribe@topica.com
A twice-monthly newsletter dedicated to American Indian Spirituality and
information. It is sent to your e-mail on the 1st and 15th of each month.

Native American Support Group of New York City
http://members.aol.com/gwolf15020/index.htm

Native Americans and Technology

The National Congress of American Indians
http://www.ncai.org/indianissues/DigitalDivide/ddhomepg2.htm
NCAI provides national leadership for tribal nations that are working to
bridge the digital divide in their communities. NCAI also has a website devoted
specifically to Indian Country technology issues. http://www.indiantech.org

FCC Indian Initiatives
http://www.fcc.gov/indians/
This Web site is an information clearinghouse regarding FCC rulings and
initiatives concerning telecommunications in Indian Country.

Native American Information Technology degree program
http://it.rocky.edu/nuke/index.php  

Tribal Technology Initative
Lucy Bisognano
202.728.0418
lbisognano@excelgov.org
www.excelgov.org

Aboriginal Science Fair Project
www.virtualsciencefair.com

Internet via Satellite and Wireless Companies and Projects

Tachyon
http://www.tachyon.net
High speed two-way satellite dishes capable of serving many computers simultaneously.
Resilient 2MB Internet service comes via satellite, making it an attractive
and convenient option for remote users
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/01/08/010108tctachyon.xml

Tamsco
http://www.tamsco.com
Major contractor for installing and maintaining high speed two-way Internet dishes for 160+ BIA tribal schools.
Conducting unique online mentoring programs for technical maintenance, K12 and community web-based cultural applications programs.

StarBand
www.starband.com
Serves one PC only per dish, but has lowest cost of any similar service at $69 a month!
The up-front charge for equipment and installation is $640 800-421-3464

DirecPC
www.direcpc.com
Another Internet via satellite provider; a subsidiary of Hughes Electronics

Optistreams.com
http://optistreams.com
Another Internet via satellite provider.

Onsatnet
www.onsatnet.com
Another Internet via satellite provider; provided the Red Mesa Navajo Nations connectivity.

Internet Technology Services -Native owned by Evans Craig
http://www.evanscraig.com/  http://www.InternetTechnologyService.net/
Associated with Los Alamos Labs, includes the following great resources

Satellite and Wireless Options
http://www.eot.ahpcc.unm.edu/Community/Research-Wireless.html

Native American Distance Education Community
http://www.eot.ahpcc.unm.edu/Community/

My Native Digital Divide
http://www.evanscraig.com/NativeDigitalDivide/  

Evans Craig Presentation on Collaborative Tools
http://www.eot.ahpcc.unm.edu/Community/GridTech.htm

Tribal Computational Science Program
http://www.eot.ahpcc.unm.edu/Tribal/

Countdown to Supercomputing
www.eot.ahpcc.unm.edu/Countdown/
The "first" National Supercomputing Program aimed at Native American high
school.

HP Tribal Digital Village Links
Native Networking Trends: Wireless Broadband Networks
http://www.benton.org/DigitalBeat/db092001.html
Describes HP Tribal Digital Village in detail.
Five million in funding given to 17 S. California Tribes.

Tribal Digital Village Web Site
http://tribaldigitalvillage.net/

Hewlett-Packard Philanthropy Digital Village Program
http://webcenter.hp.com/grants/us/digitalvillage/index.html

UCSD HPWREN
http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/
High speed Terrestrial Wireless Tribal Testbed

Kumeyaay.com
http://kumeyaay.com/index.html
The first model tribal web page created for the HP Tribal Digital Village.

Native American Activism

The Lemi Shoshone seek Federal Recognition amid Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Hoopla
http://www.lemishoshone.com

First Nations Radical Activism site
http://www.dickshovel.com/ 
Very good collection of resources on passionate issues

Tribute To Fallen Martyrs (including Native
people) http://www.fallenmartyrs.com

Teaching what the 'hang around the fort' cherokees don't want you to know
http://blueotter.addr.com/  http://blueotter.addr.com/intro.htm PRODUCT FOR SALE

The Survival Network
http://www.survivalnetwork.org/

Survival Webring
http://www.survivalring.org/

Eat the State?
http://www.eatthestate.org/01-46/ReclaimHistory.htm

Native American Law

The Handbook of Federal Indian Law
http://thorpe.ou.edu/cohen.html
An outstanding resource, this website by Felix S. Cohen is perhaps the most significant study of
federal Indian law.

The Oklahoma Indian Affairs Commission
http://www.state.ok.us/~oiac/index.html
This commission provides historical and current information regarding the 39
Indian Nations of Oklahoma.

The State of Oklahoma
http://www.state.ok.us
The Oklahoma government Web site serves as an effective information
clearinghouse for Oklahoma government programs, services and statistics.

Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project
http://thorpe.ou.edu/
This project is a cooperative effort among the University of Oklahoma Law
Center, the National Indian Law Library (NILL), and Native American tribes
providing access to the Constitutions, Tribal Codes, and other legal
documents.

The Progressive Policy Institute
http://www.ppionline.org
The Progressive Policy Institute attempts to define and promote a new
progressive politics for America in the 21st century through research,
policies and commentary.

Alaskan and Arctic Circle Sites

Alaskool Alaskan Native Curriculum
http://www.alaskool.org
 We feature some of the best
materials on Alaska Native history and culture available, and the tools
to help instructors use them in the classroom.

Ethnic Medicine Guide -Inupiaq - Cultural Profile
http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/pnr/ethnomed/inupiaq.html
Information by The University of Washington about the traditional medicine of the North Alaskan Inuit or Inupiaq people.

Place names in Inuktitut
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/9479/inuit.html
Original Inuit forms of places in Greenland (now official in Inuktitut) and Canada (in Nunavut and else), from the site GeoNative. On this page you can check:

Tuktu and Nogak Project
http://aulak.polarnet.ca/tuktu/
A community-driven effort to collect and share Inuit ecological knowledge of caribou and calving areas in the Bathurst Inlet area of the Kitikmeot region, Nunavut, Canada. The site has a photo gallery, a report on the Elder-Youth Camp on the Hiuqqittaaq River, and a list of the interviewees.
English version http://aulak.polarnet.ca/tuktu/main.html and the Inuinnaqtun version http://aulak.polarnet.ca/tuktu/inusite.html

Inupiaq Studies Curriculum
http://www.alaskool.org/native_ed/curriculum/nwabsd1/nwabsd_inupiaq.html
Example of integration of Inuit issues in the school, in Alaska (Inupiaq: North Alaskan Inuit)

The Arctic String Figure Project
http://www.isfa.org/arctic.htm

MORE Alaskan Native Web Innovations at http://lone-eagles.com/alaskan.htm

For more Native American links go to
http://lone-eagles.com/native.htm

and/or

Echoes in the Electronic Wind -
A Native American Cross-cultural Internet Guide
http://lone-eagles.com/nativeguide.htm