• American Historical Images on File: The Native American Experience A chronological photographic documentation of the American Indian: prehistoric to 1990.
• Against Stereotypes
• American Indians: Stereotypes and Realities
• American Indian Women A 19th-century European perspective: Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont, Thomas Cather,
• The American View of the "Indian" is "Just Like e Saw It in the Movies" Francesco Arese, Frederick Marryat
• Changing Views of California Indians
• Erasing Native American Stereotypes Smithsonian Institution
• Ethnic Images in Comics From the Balch Institute of Ethnic Studies
• History of Proverbial Stereotypes:"The Only Good Indian is a Dead Indian" Scholarly Paper
• Native American Vietnam Vets
• Representations The postcolonial debate of representation in literature and film
• Resource List: "Examining the Perpetuation of Stereotypes of Native Peoples"
• Stereotypes and Pan-Indianism
• "Stereotypes of Native Americans in Modern Films" University of Michigan

Photographs and Stereotypes

• The Ghost Dance Indiana University
• Photographic Representation of California Indians and The Klamath River Yurok Alfred Kroeber
• "Powerful Images: Portrayals of Native America" Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana
• Reading Historical Photoraphs The Pawnee. Indiana University
• Reading Historical Photographs: The Subject's Influence, The Viewer's Influence, The Photographer's Influence Photographic essay on the subject of Native American stereotypes
• Reading Historical Photographs The Technical Influence
• Photographs of the Cree-French Canadian Richard Throssel. Photographs of The Crow Nation University of Wyoming
• The Shadow Catcher: Edward Sheriff Curtis Creating photographic stereotypes
• The Tipi Indiana University
• North American Indians - Stereographs from the Keystone-Mast Collection Sections on People, Ceremony, Dwelling, Lifestyle. University of California, Riverside

Cultural Property

• Postmodern Anthropology An essay by Paul Smith, Carnegie Mellon University
• A Professional Ethics Report From the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Cultural Property "Real property" versus "intellectual property"
• Intellectual Property Issues Issues of language and culture
• Photographs from Indian Boarding Schools The issue of cultural property
• Intellectual Theft An essay by Myke Johnson

Traditions

• Address to the United Nations by Onondaga Oren Lyons
• Buffalo and the Plains Indians: Respect, Reciprocity, Survival
• Cultural Preservation: A Comment
• Elders and American Indian Culture
• Ethics and Spiritual Values
• Hopi Katsina: Rainmakers from the Gods A Peabody Museum Exhibition with Text and Photographs
• Iroquois Oral Traditions
• Iroquois Women: Status and Role
• Joe Chasing Horse-Culture Preservation

• Lacrosse: An Iroquois Tradition

• Keepers of the Sacred Tradition of Pipemakers
• Tobacco: Its Sacred Use Source: University of California at Santa Cruz

• Wampum Its significance to the Oneida

• Native American Philiosophies
• Native American Traditions Lakota: Welcoming Back the Thunders
• Native American Traditions 2 Traditional Military Societies of the Northern Cheyenne
• Native American Traditions 3 Lakota Nation: Proclamation of Continuing Belief
• Native Tech "Dedicated to disconnecting the term primitive from perceptions of native technology," this site offers a comprehensive selection of instructional pages on Beadwork/ Featherwork/ Pottery/ Leather/ Metalwork/ Quilling/ Stonework/ Weaving as well as related link referals to Native American sites.
• Oral Traditions On the importance of oral tradition
• Sioux Heritage
• Thunder Ceremony
• Women Center of All Things Iroquois

Music

Audio Samples of contemporary American Indian music (Smithsonian)

Dakota/Lakota Singing

Following Generations Music

Going South-Mourning Songs

Healing Songs

Joy Harjo and Poetic Justice

Keeping the Music Alive

"Music in a Multicultural Society" J.C. High Eagle (Cherokee/Choctaw) composer, author, musician

Native American Dancing

Native American Music Consortium A grassroots collective of Native American Musicians

Native American Music Resources

Native American National Music Festival

The Pow-wow: Songs, The Drum, Community, Giveaways, Competition, Regalia, Dance, Cultural Renaissance

Pow-Wow Music and Dance Traditions

Powwow Traditional Dance Styles

R. Carlos Nakai

Renaissance of the Native American Flute

Smithsonian Folkways

Technical Notes on Native American Indian Music Henry S. Gilbert included in E.S, Curtis' notes on The North American Indian

The Willard Rhodes Collection: Field Recording of North American Indian Music, 1940-1952 An ethnomusicologist's documentation

Young Singers of Puget Sound

Art

"New Horse Power in 1913" Collage by Arthur Amiotte. Oglala Lakota Artist (1994) Peabody Essex Museum

American Indian Art

• American Indian Art: Definitions, Law, Inclusion Policy
• Legal Definition of a Native American Artist
• Native Artist Interviews Visual artists talk about the idea of nation specific art traditions (Yurok, Cherokee, Tuscarora, Colville, Osage, Maidu, Apache, Muscogee, Cree, Ojibwe, Mohawk, Cochiti, Yuchi)

Basketry

• Basketry and the Environment The philosophy of basketweaving
• Californian Indian Basket Weavers Association Website Perceptions of art and a way of life
• Native American Basket Making
• Native Basketry A comprehensive page of the art
• Pomo Basketry

Beadwork

• Beadwork Eva McAdams: Shoshone Regalia Maker
• Pre-1840 Beadwork/Southeast
• Sacred Seeds: Beadwork How beadwork is done, beadwork and spirituality, exaamples, history
• Native American Beadwork The beads and the techniques
• Native Beadwork A complete list of links

Pottery

• Pottery by Native American Women
• Pueblo Pottery Examples

Quilting

• Hopi Quilting
• Native American Quilts
• Native American Quilting Traditions Natinal Museum of the American Indian
• Native Quilts: Celebrating Tradition
• Seminole Patchwork
• Star Quilt Tradition

Textiles

• 19th-Century Navajo Textiles
• Indian Trade Blankets A history of the trade blanket
• Navajo Rugs Hubbell Trading Post (National Historic Site)
• Textiles, Weavings and Tapestries

General (Under Construction)

• Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie Seminole Muskogee Photographer
• Contemporary Expression of Traditional Native American Art
• Dorothy Dunn (1903-1991): Teaching Art at the Santa Fe Indian School in the 1930s
• Indian Art Symbols An explanation of symbols used in Native American art
• All Nations Native Art
• Indian Artists of the Pacific Northwest
• The Inter-Tribal Art Gallery
• Ledger Drawings Then and Now Plains Indian ledger-book pictographic images and explanation
• The Miccosukee: A Visual Commentary
• Native American Arts
• Native American Indian Art
• Petroglyph National Monument Only unit in US National Park System to focus on Native America's rock art heritage
  
  Armenia Miles (Cayuse/Nez-Perce): View of Parfleche Interior

• Song to the Creator: Traditional Arts of Native American Women of the Plateau
• Traditional Indian Paintings Links to art galleries in Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico

Cross Cultural Encounters in Art

Buffalo Bull's Back Fat (1832): Artist - George Catlin (1796-1872) National Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.

• The Illustrating Traveller I Beinecke Library, Yale University: Early Illustrations of North American Indians and commentary
• The Illustrating Traveller II
• The Illustrating Traveller III
• George Catlin European interpretation of the American Indian

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Culture Centers

Abenaki Indian Center

Chumash Culture Center

California Indian Museum and Culture Center

Hopi Culture Center

The Lenni Lenape Historical Society and Museum of Indian Culture

Makah Cultural and Research Center

The Native Cultures Institute of Baja California (CUNA)

Pueblo Culture Center

San Carlos Apache Culture Center

Tsalagi Culture Center

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Museums

American Indians and the Natural World The Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Detroit Institute of Art: Art of the American Indian Frontier

Heard Museum

Mathers Museum Collections: North American Indian

Museums in the Post-Colonial Era: Making Representations

Eiteljorg Museum of Native America

National Gallery of Art-George Catlin

National Museum of the American Indian

National Museum of Natural History Native Cultures of the Americas

National Portrait Gallery: Native Americans

Tenskwatawa: Shawnee Chief (1775-1837)

Native American Related Museums on the Internet

Oklahoma Museums Featuring American Indian Material

Osage Tribal Museum

Peabody Museum

Plimoth Plantation Wampanoag site

Smithsonian Native American Resources

Southwest Museum

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Film

General

• American Indian Studies Films at Stanford University Documenatires, Shorts, Reference Works
• Native American Art and Film
• Sundance Festival 98: Native Vision The Native American entries at Sundance Film Festival 1998
• The Movies, Race and Ethnicity: Native Americans Media Resources Center, Moffitt Library, University of California at Berkeley
• Native Americans in Film and Television
• Native American Video Resources on the Internet
• Redeye Video: Native American Documentaries Subjects include: Traditions, Community, Giveaways, Culture, Respect, Dance, History, Leadership,Powwows, Pride, Buffalo, Veterans, Wild Rice Harvesting
• Video Documentaries on Issues Facing Indigenous Peoples University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee Listing
• Video Titles and Abstracts

The Native American Image in Film 1911-2002

• "Native Americans: The Surprising Silents" An essay by Angela Aleiss for Cinaste
• The Genre
• Stagecoach (1939) What the critics say.
• The Vanishing American (1955)
• The Searchers (1956) What the the critics say.
• How The West Was Won (1962)
• Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
• Little Big Man (1970)
• A Man Called Horse (1970) An analysis of the film.
• Soldier Blue (1970)
• I Will Fight No More Forever (TV 1975)
• Powwow Highway (1989) What the critics say.
• Crazy Horse and Custer-The Untold Story (1990)
  
• Dances With Wolves (1990) What the critics say.
• Dances with Wolves QuickTime video clip and commentary
• Incident at Oglala (1992) What the critics say.
• Lakota Woman: Seige at Wounded Knee (TV 1994)

  The Last of the Mohicans

• The Last of the Mohicans (1911)
• The Last of the Mohicans (1920)
• The Last of the Mohicans (1932)
• The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
• Der Letzte Mohikaner (1920) Germany
• Der Letzte Mohikaner (1965) Germany
• L'Ultimo dei Mohicani (1965) Italy
• Ultimul Mohican (1968) Romania
• The Last of the Mohicans (1971) UK
• The Last of the Mohicans (TV,1975)
• The Last of the Mohicans (1992) What the critics say.
• Thunderheart (1992) What the critics say.
• Geronimo (TV 1993)
• Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee (TV 1994)
• Last of the Dogmen (1995) What the critics say.
• Tecumseh-The Last Warrior (TV 1995)
• Crazy Horse (TV 1996)
• Smoke Signals (1998) What the critics say.
  

  The Business of Fancy Dancing

  Gene Tagaban, Evan Adams, Sherman Alexie, Michelle St. John

• The Busines of Fancy Dancing (2002)

  For More On The Image of Native American on Television and in Film: 1939-1996

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