Native Americans

Library resources: Indians of North America.

Pittsburgh Region

• Allegheny-Kiske Valley: History - Native Peoples
  Information on the old Indian town on the Kiskiminetas River, north of Pittsburgh, and on Guyasuta, the leading spirit of the Senecas in this part of the country, and was one of the most powerful chiefs of his time.

• Carnegie Museum of Natural History: American Indians and the Natural World
  http://www.carnegiemnh.org/exhibits/north-south-east-west/
  An online exhibition of a new hall in this Pittsburgh museum that "emphasizes the interactions of American Indian people with the natural world. Through the arts and artifacts of five American Indian peoples--the Lakota of the Plains, the Tlingit of the Northwest Coast, the Hopi of the Southwest, the Iroquois of the Northeast, and the American Indians living in urban areas-- the exhibition showcases the diversity and creativity of the native peoples of North America."

• Native American Home Page
  http://www.nativeculture.com/lisamitten/
  Created and maintained by Lisa Mitten, a mixed-blood Mohawk urban Indian, and a librarian at the University of Pittsburgh.

Pennsylvania

• Carlisle Indian Industrial School (1879-1918)
  http://home.epix.net/~landis/
  A school where Indian children, taken from the reservations, were isolated from tribal influences, and "transformed into white people". Research by Barbara Landis and Genevieve Bell.

• Delaware (Lenape) History
  http://www.tolatsga.org/dela.html
  From Lee Sultzman's First Nations Histories site. Originally located in the Delaware River Valley in eastern Pennsylvania/New Jersey, the Delaware were eventually pushed westward to Oklahoma.

• Delaware (Lenape) Tribe of Indians
  http://www.delawaretribeofindians.nsn.us/
  the natives who occupied the Delaware River Valley and whose language belongs to the Algonquian linguistic group. White settlement pushed them increasingly westward until today they reside within the Cherokee Nation in Washington and Nowata Counties in Oklahoma.

• Erie (History)
  http://www.dickshovel.com/erie.html
  Lee Sultzman's website. The Erie were located along the "southern shore of Lake Erie beginning near Buffalo, New York and then west to the vicinity of Sandusky, Ohio. Their homeland may also have extended far inland to include large parts of the upper Ohio River Valley and its branches in northern Ohio, western Pennsylvania and West Virginia."

• The Lenni Lenape Historical Society and Museum of Indian Culture
  http://www.lenape.org/
  Located in Allentown, PA and open to the public, the museum serves as a vital bridge for cross-cultural understanding by preserving the Lenape (Delaware) heritage and by utilizing that heritage to promote ecological understanding, and care for the environment.

• Susquehannock History
  These Native Americans lived along the Susquehanna River and its branches from the the north end of Chesapeake Bay in Maryland across Pennsylvania into southern New York.

Nearby States

• Powhatan Renape Nation
  Find about this neighboring American Indian Nation located at the Rankokus Indian Reservation in Westampton Township, Burlington County, New Jersey.

• Seneca Nation of Indians
  one of the six tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy who occupy aboriginal lands in New York State set aside by the Treaty of Canandaigua of 1794.

• West Virginia Archaeology Index
  Information about the various prehistoric native american sites in West Virginia. From the West Virginia State Historic Preservation Office.

• West Virginia State Archives: History of Native Americans in West Virginia
  Covers early cultures, mound builders and clashes with European settlers.

United States

• American Indians of the Pacific Northwest
  http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/
  An extensive digital collection from the University of Washington Libraries of original photographs and documents about the Northwest Coast and Plateau Indian cultures (Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana), complemented by essays written by anthropologists, historians, and teachers about both particular tribes and cross-cultural topics.

• Ancient Architects of the Mississippi
  http://www.nps.gov/archeology/FEATURE/FEATURE.HTM
  A National Park Service website featuring the Native Americans of the lower Mississippi Delta 800 years ago.

• Augustana College (Rock Island IL) Library: Native Americans
  http://www.augustana.edu/library/SpecialCollections/native1.html
  Photographs taken by John Hauberg of Western Illinois Native Americans, including descendants of the famous warrior, Black Hawk

• Beringia
  The land bridge and surrounding unglaciated area that formed the route for human migration from Siberia to America.
  • Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
    http://www.nps.gov/bela/
    a remnant of the land bridge that connected Asia with North America more America. The land bridge itself is now overlain by the Chukchi Sea and the Bering Sea. A National Park Service site.
  • Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre
    http://www.beringia.com/
    Completed in the spring of 1997 by the Government of Yukon, Canada.

• Chumash Indian Life
  http://www.sbnature.org/research/anthro/chumash/
  An online exhibit from the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History about the indigenous native American culture of Southern California north of Los Angeles.

• First Nations Histories
  Descriptions and histories of native American nations by Lee Sultzman.
• LII.org: Native Americans
  http://www.lii.org/pub/subtopic/3479
  The Librarian's Index to the Internet has collected web resources from around the United States with an emphasis on the West Coast.

• Library of Congress: In the Beginning Was the Word
  The Russian Church and Native Alaskan Cultures

• National Museum of the American Indian
  http://www.nmai.si.edu/ (http://www.americanindian.si.edu/)
  The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian celebrated its Grand Opening on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, September 21, 2004.
  • American Indian History and Culture
    Links to information about Native Americans at the Smithsonian Museums from the Encyclopedia Smithsonian.

• Native Web Resource Center
  http://www.nativeweb.org/resources/
  Arranged by subject. Contains links to websites with historical material. Links to websites of US tribes, both those recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and those that are not.

• Oneida Indian Nation
  http://www.oneida-nation.net/
  recipes, lacrosse, history

• PBS: New Perspectives on the West
  http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/
  website for the television documentary. Contains biographies of prominent Native Americans, documents of the period (including treaties), historic sites.

• Sioux Heritage
  http://www.siouxheritage.com/
  information on various issues, including Spiritual guidance, Lakhota stories, tribal reference material and books of recommended reading

• University of Oklahoma College of Law: American Indian Tribes/Nations
  Links to websites of American Indian Tribes and Nations.

• US Department of the Interior: Bureau of Indian Affairs
  The Bureau of Indian Affairs' mission is to enhance the quality of life, to promote economic opportunity, and to carry out the responsibility to protect and improve the trust assets of American Indians, Indian tribes and Alaska Natives.

• WWW Virtual Library: American Indians
  http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/
  Index of Native American Resources on the Internet maintained by Karen M. Strom. Links to oral and written histories, timelines, regional histories.

• Yahoo! Native American Cultures
  arranged by categories including history, food, language, literature