Native American Historical Documents

The website below has links to historical Native American speeches and documents.

Native American Historical Documents http://www.historicaldocuments.com/NativeAmericanDocuments.htm


Native American Historical DocumentsIndian Citizenship Act of 1924 King Ferdinand's Letter to the Taino/Arawak Indians (1492)
A Spanish Friar Indicts the Conquistadors for the Massacre of Indians (1542)
The Iroquois Constitution (1600's)
Father Andrew White's First Impressions of Maryland & Native Inhabitants (1634)
Thomas Morton, Description of the Indians in New England (1637)
Dutch Minister Describes the Iroquois (1644)
The First Thanksgiving Proclamation (1676)
Title 25 (Indians) of the United States States Code (downloadable)
Indian Affairs: Laws & Treaties ( Compiled and Edited by Charles J. Kappler)
Cornell Legal Information Institute Indian Law Resources FindLaw Indian Law Resources Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs Interior Board of Indian AppealsInterior Solicitors' Opinions (1993-present)Bureau of Indian AffairsFederally Recognized American Indian Tribes and Alaska NativesOffice of American Indian Trust, DOI Office Of Self-Governance, DOIHistorical and Legislative Review of Federal Indian PolicyNative American Documents Project Native American NAGPRA Consultation Database Office of Tribal Justice, DOJ American Indian Reservations and Trust Areas (Department of Commerce database of information on tribal trust areas)American Indian Environmental Office, EPA National Indian Gaming Commission American Indian Tribal Directory Envirotext Search for Basic Indian Treaties and Documents Native Americans and the Environment Web Site Center for World Indigenous Studies National Tribal Judicial Resource Center United States Dept. of Housing & Urban Development CodeTalk Page Lisa Mitten's List of Links to Other Native American Sites Native American Bar Association (NABA) National Native American Law Students Association (NALSA) Proposed Federal Government Report on Status of Native Hawaiians

Ask a Librarian -Free online help for your homework

The following website offers an online service of help from a librarian online. Go to the following link and click on the right, fill in the blanks and a librarian will appear in the chat box available to help you with any questions you might have.

http://www.questionpoint.org/crs/servlet/org.oclc.home.TFSRedirect?virtcategory=12728

NATIVE AMERICAN NATIONS WEBSITES

INFORMATION ON INDIVIDUAL NATIVE NATIONS
http://www.nativeculturelinks.com/nations.html
This section contains links to pages that have either been set up by the nations themselves, or are pages devoted to a particular nation, and are ALPHABETICAL BY TRIBAL NAME. Pages maintained by Indian Nations or individuals are indicated with this symbol:. Pages without this symbol are primarily ABOUT specific nations, but not by them.
Included are both recognized and unrecognized tribes.
Dick Shovel has begun compiling good general historical & cultural overviews of a couple of dozen tribes. Take a look at First Nations Histories - a good source for student papers! Dick also has a listing of tribes, both federally and state recognized, as well as those with no formal governmental recognition at all.

Native American law resource page

Native American law resource page with links to Native American legal organizations, Native American student organizations, Native American arts and culture, Native American government agencies, Native American Education, Native American Tribes, Native American national organizations and institutes, Native American news, Native American research guides, and much more.
http://www.washlaw.edu/doclaw/subject/nativ5m.html

IN THE LAND OF THE HEAD HUNTERS-EDWARD CURTIS

In 1914, famed photographer Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) produced a melodramatic, silent film entitled In the Land of the Head Hunters. This was the first feature-length film to exclusively star Native North Americans (eight years before Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North). An epic story of love and war set before European contact, it featured non-professional actors from Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwakiutl) communities in British Columbia—a people already famous then for their spectacular visual culture and performances. The film had gala openings in New York and Seattle in December 1914, where it was accompanied by a live orchestral score composed by John J. Braham (1848-1919), best known for his work with Gilbert and Sullivan. Curtis supplied Braham with c.1910 wax-cylinder recordings of Kwakwaka’wakw songs; despite advertising claims, however, little if any of this source material made it into the score. Critics wrote in rapturous terms about the power and beauty of the film, the Seattle Sun calling it a “great production—like a string of carved beads, too rare to be duplicated.” And yet, Head Hunters was a financial failure, quickly overlooked and barely preserved. In 1947, a single copy arrived at the Field Museum after being picked out of a Chicago dumpster; these damaged and incomplete reels were re-edited by Bill Holm and George Quimby and released in 1974 as In the Land of the War Canoes, featuring a new soundtrack recorded by Kwakwaka’wakw consultants at the time. At some point, a few deteriorating clips from another copy found their way to the UCLA Film & Television Archive, and the all-but-forgotten score was filed under another name at the Getty Research Library.
http://www.curtisfilm.rutgers.edu

SACRED TEXTS ONLINE

Whoever owns the website below has scanned hundreds of sacred texts and anthropological notes dating back to the early 1900's. I was shocked to find so many about our tribe.Below is the link to the California section.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/ca/index.htm

Native Village and Dance Library

This website is a library of indigenous recordings, dances, and videos. it includes some rare audio recordings including women performing throat songs.

www.nativevillage.org/Libraries/Music%20and%20Dance_library.htm