Native American Women on the WWW

August 13, 2007.

Multi-Purpose Sites on Native Americans

Index of Native American Resources on the Internet

URL: http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources
Subject-arranged index compiled by Karen Strom, with categories that include history, music, art, education, videos, bibliographies, government resources, commercial sites, job notices, electronic texts (links to magazines, publishers, and whole texts of books), and home pages for individuals

Native Culture.com

URL: http://www.nativeculture.com/lisamitten/indians.html
Links compiled by Lisa Mitten to home pages of individual native Nations; organizations and businesses; journals and newspapers; powwows and festivals; tribal colleges and Indian education. (Nativeculture.com site also includes articles and other links besides Mitten's.)

Indigenous Peoples' Literature

URL: http://www.indians.org/welker/natlit1.htm
Links compiled by Glenn Welker to Native American languages, art, documents, speeches, quotes, prayers, poetry, stories, and more

First Peoples

URL: http://www.schoolnet.ca/aboriginal/menu-e.html
Hosted on Schoolnet, First Peoples links educational resources for K-12 teachers and students, including curriculum materials on Native languages and literature, school projects, and much more.

NativeNet Home Page

URL: http://www.native-net.org/
Subscription fors for electronic discussion lists NATIVENET ACADEMICS, NATIVENET DIALOGUE, and NATIVENET POWWOW.

NativeLit-l

URL: http://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?SL1=NATIVELIT-L&H=LISTSERV.UNB.CA
Home page of discussion list on Native literature in Canada. Searching archives is restricted to list members.

NativeWeb

URL: http://www.nativeweb.org/
"A cyber-place for earth's indigenous peoples," this site links to resources on genealogy, languages, education, Nations, historical material, organizations, bibliographies, newsletters, literature, news groups, and other resources by subject. Women is one of the subject categories. The books category includes listings for a poetry section, which includes poems by many women poets. There is also a search through the entire site.

Native American Indian -- Art, Culture, Education, History. Science, -- Native Sources was a huge site compiled by Paula Giese before her death in Summer, 1997. It is no longer being maintained. The site maintained by Karen Strom includes a Memoriam for Paula.

URL: http://www.kstrom.net/isk/

Examples of Sites and Documents on Native American Women

General

American Indian Women (library resources guide), by Ken Middleton, Middle Tennessee State University, includes a section on primary sources/ digital collections.

URL:http://frank.mtsu.edu/%7Ekmiddlet/history/women/wh-indn.html

Activism, Issues, Resource Centers

Coerced Sterilization of Native American Women

URL: http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/9118/mike.html
Section of the Native American Political Issues website.

Indigenous Women's Network

URL: http://www.indigenouswomen.org/
IWN "supports public education and advocacy for the revitalization of our languages and culture, elimination of all forms of oppression, the attainment of self-sufficiency, and the protection of Mother Earth for future generations."

The Institute For The Advancement of Aboriginal Women

URL: http://www.iaaw.ca/

Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center

URL: http://miwrc.org/default.html

Arts, Artists, and Music

Hearts of the Nations: Aboriginal Women's Voices project

URL: http://www.schoolnet.ca/aboriginal/cd~heart/index-e.html
Site includes songs.

Native American Women Photographers as Storytellers

URL: http://www.sla.purdue.edu/WAAW/Jensen/NAW.html
By Joan M. Jensen, Women Artists of the American West

"Watchful Eyes: Native American Women Artists" was an exhibit at the Heard Museum, Phoenix, AR. While there are no images from this exhibit still mounted on the Internet, visit the Museum's website for information on other exhibits that include women artists.

URL: http://www.heard.org/index.php

 

Jeanne Rorex (Cherokee)

URL: http://www.rorex-art.com/index.html

Dana Tiger (Creek)

URL: http://www.artnatam.com/dtiger/dtiger.html
"By drawing on the strength of the women of my Creek Indian ancestry, I am better able to portray the dignity and determination of contemporary women."

Diane Way (Lakota/Cheyenne) and Elayna Cabral (White Earth (Ojibwe) and White Mountain (Apache)

URL: http://www.ableza.org/
Two of the artists whose work is featured on the Ableza (Native American Arts and Film Institute in San Jose, CA) website.

Many Native American artists are promoted on the Native Art Network.

URL: http://www.nativeart.net/

Bibliographies of Resources

Recommended Books About Native American Women

URL: http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmai/women.htm
Compiled by the Smithsonian Institution.

Cultural Transmission

Grandmothers' Wisdom Keepers is no longer on the Wisdom Keepers website, but visit their site for other items.

URL: http://www.wisdomkeepers.org/

A Resource Guide on Family Violence Issues for Aboriginal Communities

URL: http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/ncfv-cnivf/familyviolence/html/fvaborres_e.html
From the National Clearinghouse on Family Violence, Health Canada.

Health Care

Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center

URL: http://www.nativeshop.org/nawherc.html
In Lake Andes, South Dakota.

"Broken Treaties, Empty Promises: An Introduction to Native American Women's Health Issues"

URL: http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/lillithsrealm/myhomepage/Sterilization/BrokenTreaties.htm

A History of Governmentally Coerced Sterilization: The Plight of the Native American Woman," by Michael Sullivan DeFine (1997)

URL: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/9118/mike2.html

HIV/AIDS and Aboriginal Women, Children, and Families from the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network

URL: http://www.caan.ca/english/grfx/resources/publications/Women_and_HIV.pdf

 

National Women's Health Information Center -- use search box and search for "Native American," for links to documents from numerous U.S. government agencies.

URL:http://www.4woman.gov/

"What Do Native American Women Suffer From?"

URL: http://www.womancando.org/conditions/nativeamerican.htm

History/Biography

19th Century Native American Women of the Plains and Desert Southwest Daily Life

URL: http://photoswest.org/exhib/gallery4/leadin.htm
Exhibit from the Denver Public Library.

Native American Women: Foundations of the People

URL: http://www.snowwowl.com/histswritnawomen.html

Native American Women Veterans

URL: http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/americanindian/women.html

Native American Women With Military Service

URL: http://www.nativewomenveterans.org
By Brenda Finnicum

Woman Spirit, by Julia White, contains biographies of historical Native American women.

URL: http://www.powersource.com/gallery/womansp/default.html

Women's Issues

URL: http://www.bluecloud.org/women.html
Thematic issue from The Wind River Rendezvous, published by the American Indian Culture Research Center, Blue Cloud Abbey, Marvin, SD, on early Plains Indian women.

Law

Native Women's Association of Canada v. Canada (1994)

URL: http://www.lexum.umontreal.ca/csc-scc/en/pub/1994/vol3/html/1994scr3_0627.html
Appellate decision of lawsuit brought by the NWAC challenging Canadian federal funding of male-dominated aboriginal organizations.

Leadership

Wilma Mankiller

http://www.powersource.com/gallery/people/wilma.html
Former Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, biographical information.

Literary Works

Celebration of Women Writers site contains an extension section of links by and about individual "First Nations Writers." In addition, see sites below on individual writers.

URL: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/_generate/FIRST%20NATIONS.html