Indigenous Peoples

The Indians of Iowa is a book of profiles of Native American tribes that resided in what is today the midwestern state of Iowa

Adrienne Mayor's Fossil Legends of the First Americans is interesting, both for its detailed descriptions of the legends and investigations of paleontological data by Native American people, but also for the visible struggles of a scientist trying to reconcile one of the bigger problems of our society.

Indexed and abstracted since 1993, the University of Oklahoma's American Indian Quarterly publishes articles that go beyond the normal academic treatise about Native Americans, to set issues into contexts of people and humanity.

From the truly fabulous American Memory project, a digital collection of 2,300 photographs and 7,700 text articles on the original inhabitants of the American northwest coast and plateau.

A comprehensive list of links to laws affecting indigenous people, art, literature, news groups and human right.

Glenn Welker's electronic text connection to world-wide indigenous literature and music

An online database from Arkansas's NADB site for identifying required NAGPRA consultation contacts for each Indian tribe, Alaska Native corporation, and Native Hawaiian organization.

From your About guide to Inventors, Mary Bellis, a description of several of the inventions created by North America's first residents.

From the Hanksville index, an online database of Native American contact names addresses, as well as universities and public radio stations. 

The term aboriginal peoples or, more simply aborigines, is an anthropological term referring generally to the native people of an area, in contrast to invading or colonizing peoples.

The Bushmen is a collective term for a modern cultural group in subsaharan Africa, primarily the Kalahari Desert.

The Berbers are a modern ethnic group in north Africa and Europe, with a deep history.

Native American group who had the unfortunate honor of being the first to meet Columbus in the New World in 1492. Within a decade, they were reported to have been destroyed by diseases brought by the Spanish explorers; but their ancestors continue to populate the Caribbean Islands.

The term indigenous or aboriginal peoples or, more simply aborigines, is an anthropological term referring generally to the native people of an area, in contrast to invading or colonizing peoples.

The Navajo Nation are modern-day people of the American southwest; their history has a special importance for archaeologists as well.

Numic speakers are ancestral Ute, Paiute and Shoshone, thought to have moved into the Great Basin of the United States from California about AD 1000.