Online Resources for Canadian Heritage

Ethnology

Indigenous peoples - non-Canadian

General ethnology

First Nations Histories
http://dickshovel.netgate.net/Compacts.html

Geographic Overview of First Nations Histories
http://www.netgate.net/~jsd/Compacts.html

The Americas to 1500
http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/crossroads/sec2/essay01.html

American Historical Images On File: The Native American Experience
http://www.csulb.edu/gc/libarts/am-indian/nae/

The Curtis Collection
http://www.curtis-collection.com/

Edward S. Curtis's North American Indian
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/curthome.html

Indians of North America: Theodore De Bry Copper Plate Engravings
http://www.csulb.edu/gc/libarts/am-indian/woodcuts/

Art of the American Indian Frontier: A Portfolio
http://glrain.cic.net/diapages.htm

Gallery of the Open Frontier: Native Americans
http://www.unl.edu/UP/gof/sp-ind.htm

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Relations with Government and non-Natives

Contact: Europe and America Meet, 1492-1620
http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/crossroads/sec2/essay02.html

Aboriginal Law and Legislation
http://www.bloorstreet.com/300block/ablawleg.htm

Kappler's Indian Affairs: Law's and Treaties
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/

Algonquin History
http://www.dickshovel.com/alg.html

Indians and the American Revolution
http://www.americanrevolution.org/ind1.html

In the Beginning Was the Word: The Russian Church and Native Alaskan Cultures
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/russian/russch0.html

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Political organization

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Economic activity

Crossroads of Continents
http://nmnhwww.si.edu/arctic/features/croads/

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Social relations

Iroquois Women: Status and Role
http://maple.lemoyne.edu/~gidneyhc/index.html

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Languages

Native American Languages
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/NALanguages.html

Windham County Algonquian Placenames as Locational Markers in Subsistence Rounds
http://spirit.lib.uconn.edu/ArchNet/Topical/Ethno/places/places.htm

Valence and Affix Ordering in Inupiatun
http://www.sil.org/silewp/1997/002/silewp1997-002.html

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Religion and ritual

Native American Spirituality
http://web.canlink.com/ocrt/nataspir.htm

Rituals of the Native Americans
http://138.202.168.1/ethics/group9/NativeA.html

Pow Wow Dancing
http://www.scsn.net/users/pgowder/dancing.htm

The Wandjina - Bringers of the Rain
http://www.wa.gov.au/muswa/soc_cult/anthrop/wandjina.htm

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Traditions, myths and legends

Creation Stories and Myths
http://www.xs4all.nl/~swanson/origins/cstorymenu.html

Tales of Traditional Wisdom
http://www.reedbooks.com.au/heinemann/global/mythstor.html

Native American Stories, Culture and History
http://www.y-indianguides.com/pfm_st_aa_stories.html

Native American Creation Cycles
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/NACreationCycles.html

Indigenous Peoples' Literature: Stories/Fables/Legends
http://www.indians.org/welker/stories.htm

Native American Lore
http://www.ilhawaii.net/~stony/loreindx.html

Aadizookaanag, Dibaajimowin: Traditional and True Native American Stories
http://www.kstrom.net/isk/stories/stories.html

Indian Lore Galore (the Onondaga)
http://scholastic.com/public/Indian/ILore.html

Myths and Legends of the Sioux
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/cgibin/toccer?id=MclMyth&tag;=public&images;=images/modeng&data;=/lv1/Archive/eng-parsed∂=0

Lakota/Dakota/Nakota (Sioux) Literature
http://www.indians.org/welker/sioux.htm

Iroquois Literature
http://www.indians.org/welker/iroquois.htm

Abenaki Literature
http://www.indians.org/welker/abnaki.htm

Blackfoot/Piegan Literature
http://www.indians.org/welker/blacfeet.htm

Aleut Literature
http://www.indians.org/welker/aleut.htm

Against the Winds: American Indian Running Traditions
http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/mcnh_running/default.html

Hän Mythology
http://www.yukonweb.wis.net/tourism/goldfields/hanmyth.html

Stories of the Dreaming
http://www.dreamtime.net.au/

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Science and knowledge

Indigenous Knowledge Systems
http://www.uaf.alaska.edu/ankn/IKS.html

Using the Berry Plants for Nutrition and Medicine
http://www.indians.org/welker/berry.htm

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Recreation

NativeTech: Games and Toys
http://www.nativetech.org/games/

Running in the Past: Games
http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/mcnh_running/games.html

Native American Lacrosse Resources and History on the Web
http://www.e-lacrosse.com/na.htm

Lacrosse: An Iroquois Tradition
http://one-web.org/oneida/lacrosse.html

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Technology and material culture

Native Americans and the Environment
http://conbio.rice.edu/nae/

Buffalo, the Life and Spirit of the American Indians
http://www.ilhawaii.net/~stony/buffalo.html

Bison Roundup
http://ericir.syr.edu/Projects/Newton/11/bison.html

Native American Homes
http://www.iserv.net/~educate/NativeAmerican.html

Hair Pipes in Plains Indian Adornment: A Study in Indian and White Ingenuity
http://www.sil.si.edu/BAE/bulletin164/tptoc.htm

Woven Wampum Bead Work
http://www.nativetech.org/wampum/wamphist.htm

Tree and Tradition: Brown Ash & Maine Native American Basketmaking
http://www.ume.maine.edu/~hudsonm/TemporaryExhibit.html

Trophies of Honor: Art Chronicles of Indigenous Peoples
http://www.msstate.edu/Fineart_Online/Gallery/Trophies/troph1.htm

The Native American Fine Art Movement: A Resource Guide
http://www.heard.org/education/resource/nafamrg/

Gifts of the Spirit: Masterworks by 19th-Century and Contemporary Native American Artists
http://www.pem.org/exhibits/spirit/default.htm

Native American Arts In Washington, 1889-1989
http://www.kcts.org/Columbia/native.htm

Monuments in Cedar: Totem Poles of the Northwest Coast at The Legacy Ltd.
http://artresources.com/features/articles/mlc.1.html-ssi

Sea Kayaking History
http://www.ool.com/misc.files/boats.pad.five.html

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Particular groups and communities

Americas

Lewis and Clark Expedition 95
http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/ModernStudies/HumSocSci/lc95/Welcome.html

Northwest Imagery: The Photography of Edward and Asahel Curtis
http://www.kcts.org/Curtis/exhibitm.htm

Special Collections in the Library of Congress: Edward S. Curtis Collection. Photographs of North American Indians by Edward S. Curtis, early twentieth century
http://lcweb.loc.gov/spcoll/055.html

Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains
http://libmuse.msu.montana.edu/epubs/nadb/

A Guide to the Great Sioux Nation
http://www.state.sd.us/state/executive/tourism/sioux/sioux.htm

Lakota Wowapi Oti Kin: Lakota Information Home Page
http://web.lemoyne.edu/~bucko/lakota.html

Cherokee History
http://www.netgate.net/~jsd/Cherokee1.html

Prairie Band Powatomi
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~jsmckinn/prairie_pot.html

American Indians of the Pacific Northwest
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/wauhtml/aipnhome.html

Inupiat of Arctic Alaska
http://borealis.lib.uconn.edu/ArcticCircle/HistoryCulture/Inupiat/

Journey Through Time: A Photographic trip through time of the Nunamiut of Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska
http://www.nsbsd.k12.ak.us/villages/akp/jttime/jttime.htm

The Nunamiut Eskimo
http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/academic/cult%5Fsci/anthro/Eskimos.html

Crossroads of Continents
http://nmnhwww.si.edu/arctic/features/croads/

Australasia

New Zealand: Maori Renaissance
http://www.webstories.co.nz/nzbike/green.html

Crossroads of Continents
http://nmnhwww.si.edu/arctic/features/croads/

Australian Indigenous Cultures
http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/rdf/index.asp?th=2

Indigenous Australians
http://www.austmus.gov.au/exhib/indig/index.htm

Europe

The Sámi of Far Northern Europe
http://borealis.lib.uconn.edu/ArcticCircle/HistoryCulture/samiindex.html

An introduction to the Sami people
http://www.itv.se/boreale/samieng.htm

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Biography

Great Chiefs and Leaders
http://www.indians.org/welker/leaders.htm

Marginal Man: Tracing Five Generations of a Blackfoot Family (1850-Present)
http://www.indians.org/welker/margman.htm

Oskanondonha's Pipe: The Life and Cultural Patrimony of a Great Oneida Leader
http://one-web.org/oneida/pipeindex.html

History of Sitting Bull
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/beaupre/promme924.htm

Give Me My Father's Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo
http://www.steerforth.com/books/give_me_my_fathers_body.htm

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