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Camping With the Sioux: Fieldwork Diary of Alice Cunningham Fletcher view detail comment email this

Text of fieldwork journals "kept by Alice Fletcher during a six-week venture into Plains Indian territory in 1881." Fletcher's trip "was unprecedented. ... no one but Frank Hamilton Cushing had lived with Native Americans for a scientific purpose." Features illustrated diary entries, a photo gallery, Sioux folk tales recorded by Fletcher, and related readings and links. From the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/fletcher/
Topics: Native Americans, Nonfiction by Genre
Last updated Mar 4, 2008


Living Voices/Voces Vivas view detail comment email this

This Web site from the Smithsonian features audio profiles of Native Americans and Native Hawaiians. "People of many ages, traditions and perspectives tell their own stories, reflecting the wide range of contemporary Native experience in Canada, Mexico, Panama, and the U.S." Files on this site are in English (there is also a limited Spanish version of the site); the foreign-language profiles may be ordered separately on CD.
http://www.nmai.si.edu/livingvoices/
Topics: History, Internet, Native Americans, Nonfiction by Genre
Last updated Aug 30, 2002


Traders: Voices from the Trading Post view detail comment email this

With funding from the now-disbanded United Indian Traders Association (UITA), the University of Northern Arizona's library is conducting oral history interviews with over fifty Indian traders of the southwest United States. More than just a collection of interviews, this site also contains photographic slide shows of traders and trading posts from 1860-1999. Additionally, the site contains interview excerpts about livestock, weaving, jewelry, pinon nuts, medicine men, and pawn. Focus is primarily on the Navajo, Hopi, and Zuni reservations of Arizona, New Mexico, and southern Utah and Colorado. A fascinating and historically important project.
http://www.nau.edu/library/speccoll/exhibits/traders/
Topics: Native Americans, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, United States History
Last updated Mar 16, 2006


Wind River Historical Center view detail comment email this

"The Wind River Historical Center and its partner in educational programming, The Lucius Burch Center for Western Tradition, foster understanding and appreciation for the natural history and cultural landscape of the Greater Yellowstone Region." Browse the exhibits and archives for documents, images, and oral histories relating to the native tribes and early settlers in the area. Searchable. This organization is located in Dubois, Wyoming.
http://www.windriverhistory.org
Topics: Native Americans, Nonfiction by Genre, United States History
Last updated Dec 1, 2004




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