Language Resources on the Web

Page Name: American Indian Policy Center
http://www.airpi.org/projects/index.html

Description: The American Indian Policy Center has published a small book entitled To Build a Bridge, An Introduction to Working with American Indian Communities. While it is primarily aimed at helping non-Indians relearn sensitivity, respect, consideration and politeness in the presence of Native people, it may also help Tribes to know about the cultural differences that can make communications and working together difficult. Tribes may also want to suggest this helpful manual to those who are endeavoring to work with them for one reason or another. The APIC also "conducts research in Indian issues that are not reported in current literature".

Page Name: The University of Arizona Library North American Indians: Films & Videos
http://www.library.arizona.edu/library/teams/sst/AIS/guide/na/

Description: The page has an incredible and extensive list of videos about and for Indian people. Top of the list (truly, its first), is a video about Allan Houser, Depree's cousin. (Depree ShadowWalker is Red Pony HLT's President and Artist in Residence). New additions include Atanarjuat: the fast runner, and, there is a version of Bambi in Arapaho: "The Walt Disney Company is honored to present this version of Bambi to the Arapaho Nation in support of their effort to preserve and revitalize their nation language and culture." If you have the Interlibrary Loan Service, you can request these titles. If you are not connected with an educational institution, you might contact one of the Indian Program offices at your local college or university to see if you can establish a lending policy, or contact the University of Arizona library directly.

Page Name: Lipan Apache Bibliography, compiled by Daniel Castro Romero, Jr.
http://www.indians.org/welker/lipanbib.htm

Description: This is a rare page of various reference sources about the Lipan Apache people, and the Karankawa, Caddo, Atakapa, Seminole and Kickapoo. One has frequently to wade through such terms as "barbarous" and "hostile", but the effort is probably worth it to retrieve valuable historical information for Tribes that may not be available anywhere else. Mr. Romero is Lipan, and General Council Chairman of the Lipan Apache Band of Texas, Inc (n'de tindi: http://www.indians.org/welker/lipanbib.htm).

Page Name: American Memory Collections: Topics: Social Sciences,
Search for the photographs of Edward S. Curtis
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/curthome.html

Description: Edward S. Curtis was a superb photographer who left his family and successful business in New York to take photographs of Indian people before much of the cultural destruction had occurred. The photos here are rare, and may be very interesting to the Tribes. Alternatively, there is an overview of the collection here, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/about.html, with a statement of the various issues that have been raised concerning the photographs, and an index to the various Tribes.You may access other collections by following this link: Page down, and click on the collection items. You may also obtain "A Guide to Pictorial LOTs", for the Indians of North America Collection from the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress at 101 Independence Avenue, SE, Washington, DC 20540-4730.

Page Name: Indian Land Cessions in the United States
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwss-ilc.html

Description: This is part two of Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1896-97 by J.W. Powell, Director. (part one was not available as of 12/27/2002, but probably will be later). This collection has maps, writings, and links to related topics. Browse the collection by Tribe, by State, or by Date. The maps are a little funny. You have to click on the range options between Zoom In/Zoom Out, selecting a relative size, and then Click on the Image Again. It's a bit counter-intuitive. That means it's not obvious to everyone. Took me a minute or two to figure it out.

Page Name: We Are! Arizona's First People
http://www.azcentral.com/culturesaz/amindian/tribesmap.shtml

Description: Web pages constructed for the project by the Heard Museum, and maintained on AZ Central. It is posted here, instead of in the Tribal area, because the information was not compiled and assembled by Native people. It is a fair blend, and some of the pages contain links to the Tribal pages themselves. It is also an interesting educational project, and may be of interest to others.

Health

Page: Office of Minority Health
http://www.omhrc.gov/omh/sidebar/aboutOMH.htm

Description: The Office of Minority Health "helps to ensure that Federal, State, and local health programs take into account the needs of disadvantaged and racial and ethnic populations, including their specific and cultural characteristics."

Page Name: Indian Health Service
http://www.ihs.gov/index.asp

Description: This Federal Health Program for American Indians and Alaska Natives contains lots of informational and cultural links. You can get to the National Indian Education Association from here, find jobs in different places, and read letters sent to Tribal leaders, by year. Learn about how the additional $15 million for alcohol abuse prevention programs was distributed, and about the summit in Albuquerque in September, 2002, "Healing Our Spirit Worldwide". Tribes can establish a web site on the IHS server, (http://www.ihs.gov/generalweb/helpcenter/devcomm/index.cfm), which makes it easy to tell the world and other Tribes about who you are and who you would like to be. Finally, it's kind of hard to find the Tribal links from the main page, so here it is: http://www.ihs.gov/GeneralWeb/Links/AmericanIndian/index.asp

Education / Tribal Colleges and Universitites

AIHEC, the American Indian Higher Education Consortium, which maintains links to all the Tribal colleges.
http://www.aihec.org/

Description: "The American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) is a unique—and uniquely American Indian—organization. It was founded in 1972 by the presidents of the nation’s first six Tribal Colleges, as an informal collaboration among member colleges. Today, AIHEC has grown to represent 34 colleges in the United States and one Canadian institution. Unlike most professional associations, it is governed jointly by each member institution. " Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs): http://www.aihec.org/college.htm. AIHEC Research and Reports of the Value of TCUs: http://www.aihec.org/research.htm

Page Name: Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs)
http://www.omhrc.gov/OMH/Tribal%20Colleges/index.htm

Description: The Office of Minority Health (OMH) has special initiatives for Tribal Colleges and Universities to help boost federal funding and to boost national awareness of the importance of TCUs. "
The Department of Education has the lead in this government-wide effort, and the Office of Minority Health (OMH) is the lead within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Agencies must address ways to keep TCUs informed about funding opportunities; set annual goals for agency funds to be awarded to TCUs, and pinpoint areas of technical assistance that will be made available regarding the preparation of proposals for grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts. " If you are involved with a Tribal College or University, and could use some additional programs, with the supporting funding, check out this program, because it is a top-level, comprehensive directive.

Page Name: National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
http://nces.ed.gov/

Description: The NCES is "the primary federal entity" for collection education statistics. Despite this broad mandate, there are a remarkable number of not-found (404) links on their page when one searches for documents relating to Native Americans. However, there is some potentially useful information on this page, and it is included for that reason.

Grant Resources, Federal

Page Name: NIH Office of Extramural Research
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/welcome.htm#introduction

Description: The mission of the Office of Extramural Research is to protect and improve human health. In this mission, it supports basic and applied research to help prevent, diagnose, and treat human diseases and disabilities. This is a formal research program, and the link will be of interest to those with academic degrees at the Master's level and above.
The page has a complete set of links to assist the newcomer in getting started at the NIH. These are worth reading, even if one is not applying specifically for an NIH or NIH-supported program grant.

Page Name: National Science Foundation (NSF)
http://www.nsf.gov/home/menus/funding.htm

Description: The NIH and the NSF are the two largest grant and research funding agencies in the US, supporting science, mathemathics and technology research for all levels of educational and research programs. The NSF has many different initiatives, for students and post-docs, for independent companies, and for academic researchers. One can search the previously awarded NSF grants to see which populations have been named as benefitting from the research.The primary heading for this feature, NSF Awards, is available on the home page, but the direct link is here: http://www.nsf.gov/home/menus/funding.htm We have a partial report of this data, for award inception to 2000, available in our Recommendations/books section, or through this link: http://www.redpony.us/pdf/SP1.pdf (Note that this is a pdf file).

Page Name: Office of Legislative and Public Affairs
http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/congress/106/106majorleg.htm

Description: Once Congress has passed laws authorizing funding support of particular initiatives, it still needs to fund those proposals. This page shows the laws passed and the NSF funding appropriations approved. Unfortunately, it doesn't show anything for 2002.

Grant Resources, Other

Page Name: The Linguist List: Funding Sources
http://linguistlist.org/sp/Funding.html

Description: The Linguist List provides comprehensive information of interest to people to study language. This particular page lists funding sources for those working in language preservation and revitalization.

Tribes on the Web

This is a list of official Tribal web pages:

• Page Name: Kuwawata (Welcome to the Official Website of the Hopi Tribe)
  www.hopi.nsn.us

• Page Name: Leech Lake Band of Chippewa (Ojibwe)
  http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maps/mn/casslake.htm

  Description: This page is amn excellent source of information, with a small web of related links, prepared by Paula Giese. She was a computer teacher, among many other skills and involvements, and she will be sorely missed.

• Page Name: Lipan Apache Band of Texas
  http://hometown.aol.com/ceolipan/lipan.html

  Description: Tribal page, with identity, mission statement, Tribal Council members, contact information.

• Page Name: Yavapai-Apache Tribal Web Site
  http://www.yavapai-apache-nation.com

• Page Name: Mescalero Apache Tribal History

  http://www.mescaleronet.com/history.htm

Page Name: Indian Health Service
http://www.ihs.gov/index.asp

Description: This Federal Health Program for American Indians and Alaska Natives contains lots of informational and cultural links. You can get to the National Indian Education Association from here, find jobs in different places, and read letters sent to Tribal leaders, by year. Learn about how the additional $15 million for alcohol abuse prevention programs was distributed, and about the summit in Albuquerque in September, 2002, "Healing Our Spirit Worldwide". Tribes can establish a web site on the IHS server, (http://www.ihs.gov/generalweb/helpcenter/devcomm/index.cfm), which makes it easy to tell the world and other Tribes about who you are and who you would like to be. Finally, it's kind of hard to find the Tribal links from the main page, so here it is: http://www.ihs.gov/GeneralWeb/Links/AmericanIndian/index.asp

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