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Voyageur Media Group, Inc.
Voyageur Media Group, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the creation of public media about science, history, art and culture. Voyageur's production team, working in collaboration with allied scholars and institutions, produces a variety of documentary projects that are distributed to public television stations, schools, museums and libraries.
www.voyageurmedia.org
Wyandot Nation Website
About the Wyandot Nation of Kansas
The Wyandot Nation of Kansas is made up of those formerly known as "absentee" or "citizen class" Wyandot Indians. The Wyandot Nation of Kansas is currently petitioning the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs for federal recognition and was incorporated in 1959. The Wyandot Nation of Kansas is dedicated to the preservation of Wyandot history and culture and the preservation, protection, restoration and maintenance of the Huron Indian Cemetery in Kansas City, Kansas.
http://www.wyandot.org/
Lenape Talking Dictionary
The Lenape Talking Dictionary, the official online talking dictionary for the Delaware Tribe's native language, Lenape.This project is ongoing, and where possible includes full translations, usage examples, relevant imagery, and audio recordings of Lenape words and phrases.
http://www.talk-lenape.com/
Sunwatch Village, Dayton
Notice to the Public:
On August 1, 2005 SunWatch began an addition to the Interpretive Center. During the construction SunWatch will remain open; however the Interpretive Center Museum will be closed. We will continue to offer self guided public tours and guided group tours of the reconstructed village. Our gift shop and admissions area will be set up in a temporary building in the SunWatch parking lot. The SunWatch Interpretive Center is scheduled to reopen in the Spring of 2006. The expanded Interpretive Center will include new lecture rooms that will allow us to offer new and expanded programs for school groups, scouts groups and families. We apologize for any inconvenience that this causes and we look forward to being able to better serve the public and our visitors once our expanded facility is completed. Long before the arrival of Europeans, the Miami Valley was home to native peoples. Archaeological excavations at a site near the Great Miami River uncovered evidence of an 800-year-old village built by the Fort Ancient Indians. SunWatch Indian Village, a National Historic Landmark, is a reconstruction of that settlement of long ago.
If you're still searching for that special gift, stop in and visit the Gift Shop at SunWatch. Our selection includes Native American made rugs, pottery, jewelry, flutes, dreamcatchers, and more. Proud Member Of Kids Corridor.
http://www.sunwatch.org/
Mysteries of Archaeology
Mysteries of Catalhoyuk, Turkey, a children's investigation of an archaeological project. Take a virtual tour of the site, view artifacts, take part in on-line activities, play the excavation game, and much more.
http://www.smm.org/catal/
Powwows.com
Get the latest and most recent updates on Pow Wows. Lot's of other links and resources.
http://www.powwows.com/
Citizen Potawatomi Nation
History
The Potawatomi are among the wave of Algonquian-speaking people who occupied the Great Lakes region from prehistoric times through the early 1800’s. Oral traditions explain that the ancient Potawatomi people were once part of an immense group that had traveled down the eastern shores of North America along the Atlantic Ocean. This large group, the Chippewa (Ojibwa), Ottawa (Odawa), and the Potawatomi all constituted a single tribe where they later split at Georgian Bay, Ontario, Canada and went their separate ways. Through early historic records, it has been confirmed that the Potawatomi were living in Michigan and had established an autonomous tribal identify at least 500 years ago.
Scholars have debated the origin and translation of the word “Potawatomi” for many years. Nevertheless, the Potawatomi people firmly believe that the Chippewa applied the term to them, meaning “people of the place of the fire” since they retained the original council fire once shared by all three tribes. Today, the Citizen Potawatomi Nation refers to themselves as the Nishnabec or the “True People.”
During the mid 1650’s, French traders visited the tribe and found them growing corn, gathering wild rice, and harvesting an abundant supply of fish and waterfowl from the western waters of Lake Michigan in Wisconsin. The Potawatomi had recently relocated from southern Michigan just after the eruption of the Beaver Wars in the 1640’s. Actual first contact between Europeans and the Potawatomi was established in 1634 by a French trader named Jean Nicolet at a place that is now called Red Bank, on the Door Peninsula, along the western shore of Lake Michigan.
At the height of the Fur Trading Era that spanned an entire century, the Potawatomi controlled a tribal estate that encompassed Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and a small portion of Ohio or over 5 million acres. This was accomplished through long standing leadership and savvy business skills. The Potawatomi were simply not satisfied with trapping furs. Instead, they entered into a rivalry with the Ottawa for a share in the role as middleman for trade into the Green Bay area. Using their entrepreneurial skills, they began to hire other local tribesman to collect and trap the furs that they once procured. In turn, they would sell or trade the furs to the French, thus expanding their tribal control and estate over a vast area.
Lifestyle
By the 1700’s, the Potawatomi were well known to the French on the St. Lawrence River. It is clear that the Potawatomi adapted to their wilderness environment. They mainly traveled Lake Michigan and its tributaries rather than traveling over the land on horseback. Canoes were made from birch-bark and hollowed out logs and could range in length from family-size up to 50 feet to carry several warriors. The lakes and streams around the southern tip of Lake Michigan were full of fish. Much of the fishing was done from pine dugouts or birch-bark canoes. These vessels also were used to hunt the flocks of waterfowl that migrated through the bay region in the autumn. In surrounding forests and nearby prairies, the Potawatomi hunted deer, bears, buffalo, and smaller game. During the winters, many Potawatomi families left the larger villages to establish small hunting camps in unpopulated areas. The vegetables in their diet were relieved with fish and game.
The Potawatomi exercised horticulture, gathering, hunting, and fishing. From the gardens surrounding the villages, the Potawatomi women cultivated such crops as beans, squash, pumpkin, onions, and tobacco. They also raised an abundance of corn, which was traded to the French, the Chippewa, and other northern tribes. Wild rice was harvested along shores in addition to nuts, roots, and berries.
Many of the animals that the Potawatomi killed for food also furnished skins for clothing. Deerskin was fashioned into shirts, leggings, and moccasins for men and into loose dresses and moccasins for women. In the winter, both deerskin and buffalo clothing was worn and decorated with dyed porcupine quills or shells and glass beads. As the Potawatomi traded with the French, they replaced their traditional deerskin clothing with cotton shirts and leggings and with dresses of brightly colored materials. Potawatomi women wore distinctive large collars or shawls lined in silver brooches over their dresses. They also wore long skirts covered in ribbonwork. Men wore fur turbans made from animal fur rather than long headdresses of feathers. On special occasions men would wear feathers in a turban and bearclaw necklaces around their necks. Both men and women wore moccasins with large flaps over the shoe. The flap would always be beaded with flower designs.
One of the major social events in the spring was the tapping of the Maple trees for their sugar. Villages would come together after long winters to trade and conduct naming and marriage ceremonies. People, young and old, would dress in their finest regalia to dance and celebrate. Men would play drums made of stretched animal hides over bent poles or hollowed out logs partially filled with water and covered in hides. The Potawatomi had rattles made from wood and deer hooves. Men would also play flutes both made from wood and from animal bones. Children would make Maple sugar cones from different shapes of birch-bark containers. In fact, the Potawatomi used sugar to flavor food rather than salt.
Potawatomi lived in birch bark wigwams that were dome-shaped. In the summer they would cover them in woven reed mats. Cedar was used to cover the floor and to provide a fresh scent. The mats were easily detached so they could carry them when moving. Inside the wigwam was sleeping mats, extra clothing, storage containers, vessels, and cooking utensils. Potawatomi women made baskets and bags from the bark of such trees as the white cedar. Other storage containers were made of elm and hickory bark or of animal skins. Prior to French contact, Potawatomi women used mussel shells and wood spoons and ladles. By the end of the 1700’s, the Potawatomi used common trade items such as iron kettles and metal utensils for cooking.
Potawatomi men usually shaved their heads except for a scalp lock. When going to war, warriors adorned themselves with red and black paint. Men painted their faces and bodies for these occasions. Men also used wooden war clubs for hand to hand combat. When hunting, they relied on bows and arrows, fish nets, and fish spears.
Removal
By 1800, tribal villages were displaced by white settlements and pushed farther and farther to the outskirts of the Potawatomi tribal estate. It was during the Removal Period of the 1830’s that the Mission Band (today known as the Citizen Band) of Potawatomi were forced to leave their homelands in the Wabash River Valley of Indiana. From Indiana, the Mission Band was forced to march across four states (over 660 miles) to a new reserve in Kansas. Of the 850 Potawatomi people forced to move, more than 40 died along the way. The event is known in Potawatomi history as the “Potawatomi Trail of Death (September-November 1838.)”
Between 1838 and 1861, the Mission Potawatomi lived on a small reserve with the Prairie Potawatomi in Kansas. The Prairie Potawatomi had ventured west onto the Great Plains at a much earlier period than the Mission Band, interacted with the Sioux, and adapted different lifeways. Both cultural groups exhibited very different ceremonial and subsistence strategies, yet were forced to share the land. Seeking a better opportunity for its people, the Mission Potawatomi leaders chose to take small farms rather than live together with the Prairie Potawatomi. Shortly thereafter, and not fully understanding the tax system, most of the new individual allotments of land passed out of Mission Band ownership and into that of white settlers and traders. In 1867, Mission Potawatomi members signed a treaty selling their Kansas lands in order to purchase lands in Indian Territory with the proceeds. To reinforce the new land purchase and learning from their Kansas experience, tribal members took U.S. citizenship. From that time on, they became know as the “Citizen Potawatomi.”
Citizen Potawatomi
By the early 1870’s, most of the Citizen Potawatomi had resettled in Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma, forming several communities near present-day Shawnee. In 1890, the Citizen Potawatomi participated, unwillingly, in the allotment process implemented through the Dawes Act of 1887. With this Act, the Citizen Potawatomi people were forced to accept individual allotments again. In the Land Run of 1891, the remainder of the Potawatomi reservation in Oklahoma was opened up to “white” settlement. It is estimated that 275,000 acres or half of the 900 square mile reservation was simply given away by the government to settlers.
Over time, many tribal members followed the pattern of other Oklahomans during the “dust bowl” era and migrated to California, as well as Washington, Colorado, Idaho, and Oregon, where they formed congenial, loose-knit communities. Today, these communities are well established and have expanded to Kansas and Texas. In 1985, the Citizen Potawatomi Nation formally established eight Citizen Potawatomi Nation Regional Tribal Council centers to provide outreach to tribal members and to hold at least one regional council meeting with the tribal leadership annually.
The last quarter of the twentieth century was a period of great success for the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. In fact, the Citizen Potawatomi Nation is the largest of the eight federally recognized Potawatomi tribes and the ninth largest tribe in the United States. Under sound leadership and a tribal membership of over 26,000, the Citizen Potawatomi Nation has experienced growth in administration, tribal enterprises, and its community outreach programs. The Citizen Potawatomi Nation owns one of Oklahoma’s largest grocery stores, First National Bank and Trust of Shawnee, FireLake Golf Course and Restaurant, and the FireLake Entertainment Center. The Citizen Potawatomi Nation has a Health and Wellness Center, a Child Development facility with over 250 children at the complex everyday, and an Employment and Training Center.
http://www.potawatomi.org/
Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians
Tribal Recognition was restored and signed into law by
President Clinton in September of 1994.
The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians distribute
services to its approximately 2700 membership.
The tribe has a ten county service area, four being in
Southwestern Michigan and six in Northwestern Indiana.
The administration offices of The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi
Indians are located at:
58620 Sink Road
Dowagiac, Michigan 49047
For more information call the office of the
Tribal Chairman at
(269)782-6323 or 1-888-376-9988.
http://www.pokagon.com/
Office of Minority Affairs
The Office of Minority Affairs (OMA) was created in 1970 to provide leadership for The Ohio State University in supporting the success of minority students, faculty, and staff. OMA directly serves and celebrates the contributions of African Americans, Appalachians , Asian, Pacific Islanders, Native Americans, and Hispanic Americans. The office emphasizes the recruitment, retention, and timely graduation of undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. OMA promotes a welcoming climate and serves in an advocacy role for minority individuals both at Ohio State and in the larger community.
http://www.oma.osu.edu/recruitment/index.html
Octagon Moonrise
The 2005 Newark Earthworks Moonrise Working Group is a fellowship of concerned citizens, community leaders, and scholars representing several disciplines from local universities, museums, and professional organizations. We have joined together to share with the world a remarkable conjunction of heaven and earth that will take place at the 2,000-year-old Newark Earthworks. On a few dates in 2005, the moon will rise in close alignment with the central axis of the Octagon Earthworks.
http://www.octagonmoonrise.org/
Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian
NMAI on the National Mall
Fourth Street & Independence Ave., S.W.
Washington, DC 20560
Phone: 202-633-1000
Hours:
10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily; closed Dec. 25. (Exhibition spaces, café, and stores begin closing at 5:15 p.m.)
http://www.nmai.si.edu
National Indian Education Association
The National Indian Education Association is membership based organization committed to increasing educational opportunities and resources for American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian students while protecting our cultural and linguistic traditions. Founded in 1969, NIEA is the largest and oldest Indian education organization in the nation and strives to keep Indian Country moving toward educational equity. Governed by a Board of Directors made up of twelve representatives, the NIEA has several committees that work to ensure native educators and students are represented in various educational institutions and forums throughout Indian Country and Washington, D.C.
http://www.niea.org/
The Miami Nation
The Miami Nation is a sovereign Native American Nation whose ancestral lands encompassed what are now Indiana, Western Ohio, Eastern Illinois and the lower portions of Michigan and Wisconsin . Through several treaties starting in 1795, the Miami lost much of their original homelands to the U.S. Government. In 1846 the Tribe was forcibly removed to an unwanted reservation in Eastern Kansas . Several families were exempt from this removal and remained back in Indiana . By the 1870s the Miami in Kansas were forced to move again to Indian Territory . As was the case previously, many families remained in Kansas while the rest were forced to lands in what is now NE Oklahoma . Today the Miami Nation is headquartered in Miami, Oklahoma, but many Miami families can be found living in Indiana, Kansas, and Oklahoma .
http://www.myaamiaproject.org/back/miami_nation.php
American Indian Student Services
The AISS office was created out of a need, initiated by students in 1996 to be able to have a safe space for them to addresses specific academic and cultural needs while here at OSU. Our philosophy takes a holistic approach to academics that are based on a foundation of collective work, leadership, and vision. American Indian Student Services strives to empower students to be successful here at OSU and elsewhere in their lives.
http://www.multiculturalcenter.osu.edu/aiss/about.asp
Oglala Sioux Tribe
HISTORY OF THE OGLALA SIOUX TRIBE:
The Oglala Sioux Tribe is part of the Great Sioux Nation of the Titowan Division. The Great Sioux Nation recognizes our land base in accordance with the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851. The Great Sioux Nation extended from the Big Horn Mountains in the west to the eastern Wisconsin. The territory extended from Canada in the north to the Republican River in Kansas in the south. The Great Sioux Nation was reduced in the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty from the Big Horn Mountains in the west to the east side of the Missouri River, the Heart River in North Dakota in the north and the Platte River in Nebraska to the south. This includes the entire western half of South Dakota.
The Black Hills are located in the center the Great Sioux Nation. The Black Hills are sacred to the Lakota/Dakota people and today considered an important part of our spiritual lives. A direct violation of the 1868 Treaty was committed in 1874 by General George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry. The 7th Cavalry entered the Black Hills, the center of the Great Sioux Nation and found gold in the Black Hills. The Gold Rush started the conflict between the United States and Great Sioux Nation. The Great Sioux Nation opposite this violation of the treaty. The United States Government wanted to buy or rent the Black Hills from the Lakota people. The Great Sioux Nation refused to sell or rent their sacred lands.
The 7th Cavalry under General George A. Custer was requested to bring the Sioux bands in and place them on the reservation lands. On June 15, 1876, the Battle of the Little Big Horn between the 7th Cavalry and Lakota Nation with their allies Cheyenne and Arapahos at Greasy Grass, Montana took place. The Sioux Nation won a victory over General George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry.
The Great Sioux Nation scattered, some to Canada and others surrendered to the reservations. The United States Government demanded that the Lakota nation move to the reservations. The people finally surrendered after being cold and hungry and moved on the reservations. The government still insisted buying the Black Hills from the Lakota people. The Sioux (Lakota) Nation refused to sell their sacred lands. The United States Government introduced the Sell or Starve Bill or the Agreement of 1877. The Lakota people starved but refused to sell their sacred land so the U.S. Congress illegally took the Black Hills from the Great Sioux Nation. The Allotment Act of 1888 allotted Indian lands into 160-acre lots to individuals to divide the nation. The Act of 1889 broke up the Great Sioux Nation into smaller reservations, the remainder of which exist today at about one half their original size in 1889.
Many of the Lakota people began believed in the Ghost Dance experiences as the movement spread to the reservations. The U. S. Army feared the unity through prayer among the Tribes and ordered the arrest of Sitting Bull on the Standing Rock Reservation. In the process of the arrest Sitting Bull was shot by Indian Police on December 15, 1890.
The Hunkpapa who lived in Sitting Bull's camp and relatives fled to the south onto the Cheyenne River Reservation. They joined the Big Foot Band in Cherry Creek, South Dakota then traveled to the Pine Ridge reservation to meet with Chief Red Cloud. The 7th Cavalry caught them at a place called Wounded Knee on December 29, 1890. The 7th Cavalry took all the weapons from the Lakota people. The 7th Cavalry massacred 300 people at Wounded Knee and left the bodies to freeze in the snow. The people of the Great Sioux Nation slowly recovered from this injustice and continue to survive in their homeland.
Of all the reservations in the Dakotas, Pine Ridge is the one most noted on the National level. Several possible explanations for this recognition exist. First, in early reservation history Pine Ridge was the site of the 1890 tragedy at Wounded Knee Creek in which most of Chief Big Foot's band of Minneconjou Teton Sioux were annihilated by the Seventh Cavalry. In more recent history, National media attention was focused on the 1973 armed occupation of the community of Wounded Knee by members of the American Indian Movement (AIM). Despite all the adversity encountered by the Oglala they remain a people of vitality, hopefulness, and with their cultural identity intact.
http://www.lakotamall.com/oglalasiouxtribe/
Indian Country Today
The Nation's Leading American Indian News Source
http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/
News from Indian Country
Indian Country Communications, Inc. is an independent, Indian-owened, reservation based business. We are located on the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Reservation in Northern Wisconsin. ICC, Inc. is the publishers of News From Indian Country, Akiing, The Mishomis Book and various Ojibwe Language Materials. For two decades now ICC, Inc. has been publishing News From Indian Country, the Independent National Native Journal. NFIC goes to press every two weeks with both its print and e-edition, supplying national news, pow-wow dates and information on all of Indian Country to all of the world. NFIC contains national, cultural and regional sections PLUS special interest articles, features, entertainment, letters and the most up-to-date pow-wow directory throughout North America.
For a decade, ICC, Inc. has been publishing the regional Akiing monthly newspaper covering stories on all of the Algonquin speaking Nations.
http://www.indiancountrynews.com/
Indian Health Service
The federal health program for American Indian and Alaskan Natives.Check this site for information regarding jobs and scholarships, area offices, programs and initiatives.
http://www.ihs.gov/
Ohio Center for Native American Affairs
Founded in 1992, The Ohio Center for Native American Affairs was established primarily to ensure that Native American perspectives and beliefs are represented in discussions in Ohio directed toward bringing the state into compliance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990. While OCNAA retains its fundamental emphasis upon burial rights and repatriation, the purpose of the organization have expanded. As a non-profit organization, OCNAA is involved in educational, cultural, and informational activities intended to enhance and strengthen traditional Native American cultures in Ohio and to inform all state citizens regarding issues of concern to the Native American Community.
http://www.geocities.com/ocnaa/
The American Indian Council of The Ohio State University
American Indian Council: The purpose of this organization is to provide support through fellowship for American Indian students and any other student wishing to become involved in this community. We also aim to promote awareness of the issues concerning American Indian students and promote and advance the education and understanding of American Indian culture among both members and the university community.
http://www.geocities.com/aic_osu/
Bureau of Indian Affairs
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) responsibility is the administration and management of 55.7 million acres of land held in trust by the United States for American Indians, Indian tribes, and Alaska Natives. There are 562 federal recognized tribal governments in the United States. Developing forestlands, leasing assets on these lands, directing agricultural programs, protecting water and land rights, developing and maintaining infrastructure and economic development are all part of the agency's responsibility. In addition, the Bureau of Indian Affairs provides education services to approximately 48,000 Indian students.
http://www.doi.gov/bureau-indian-affairs.html
http://www.deaflinx.com/
Good general info
http://www.deaflinx.com/
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Discover the Nature of Your Universe!
At the Cleveland Museum of Natural History we encourage people of all ages to discover and explore the natural world. Our curators care for over four million specimens in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, botany, geology, paleontology, zoology, and wildlife biology.
http://www.cmnh.org/
Committe on Institutional Cooperation
The CIC is a consortium of 12 research universities, including the 11 members of the Big Ten Conference and the University of Chicago. With campuses in 8 states, CIC universities enroll more than 300,000 undergraduates and 76,000 graduate students, and employ some 33,000 full-time faculty and 139,000 full-time staff.Our mission is to advance academic excellence by sharing resources and promoting and coordinating collaborative activities across the member universities. The CIC universities collaborate in such activities as sharing access to study abroad offerings, coordinating large scale purchases and electronic licenses, creating programs for professional development, coordinating access to library materials, and building shared data networks. Our work is focused on three areas of dynamic, evolving collaboration: (1) national leadership for higher education; (2) combining, leveraging and expanding resources of member universities; and (3) expanding learning opportunities by sharing unique courses and programs. A headquarters staff of 16, reporting to the Provosts of the member universities lead, guide and direct the consortial programs. CIC staff organize meetings, track and manage projects, communicate across the consortium, and facilitate decision-making. In addition, peers from across the member universities meet to share information and address common concerns.
http://www.cic.uiuc.edu/
http://www.bu.edu/asllrp/
The American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project at Boston University.
http://www.bu.edu/asllrp/
National Park Service Hopewell Culture
From about 200 BC to AD 500, the Ohio River Valley was a focal point of the prehistoric Hopewell culture. The term Hopewell describes a broad network of beliefs and practices among different Native American groups over a large portion of eastern North America. The culture is characterized by the construction of enclosures made of earthen walls, often built in geometric patterns, and mounds of various shapes. Visible remnants of Hopewell culture are concentrated in the Scioto River valley near present-day Chillicothe, Ohio. The most striking Hopewell sites contain earthworks in the form of squares, circles, and other geometric shapes. Many of these sites were built to a monumental scale, with earthen walls up to 12 feet high outlining geometric figures more than 1000 feet across. Conical and loaf-shaped earthen mounds up to 30 feet high are often found in association with the geometric earthworks.
http://nps.gov/hocu/
The Newberry Library/DArcy McNickle Center for American Indian History
The D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History was founded in 1972. Its goals are to encourage the use of the Newberry collections on American Indian history (see the American Indian History Collection); improve the quality of what is written about American Indians; educate teachers about American Indian culture, history, and literature; assist American Indian tribal historians in their research; and provide a meeting ground where scholars, teachers, tribal historians, and others interested in American Indian studies can discuss their work with each other.
http://newberry.org/mcnickle/darcyhome.html
Native American Indian Center of Central Ohio
Native American Indian Center of Central Ohio
67 East Innis Avenue
PO Box 07705
Columbus, OH 43207
Phone: (614) 443-6120
FAX: (614) 443-2651
http://naicco.tripod.com
INDN's Indigenous Democratic Network List
HELPING INDIANS RUN AND WIN
The primary mission of INDN’s List is to help Democratic Indians run for office and win. We identify opportunities for victory, recruit qualified candidates, train them to be effective fundraisers and communicators, and work with them throughout the campaign to make sure that they are executing their plans for victory. INDN’s List recommends candidates to our members for financial support, and our members contribute directly to the candidates of their choice. We held our First INDN Campaign Camp on the beautiful Shakopee Reservation in October 2005. We gave them the skills they need to run winning campaigns. Each year, we will train a "farm team" of Indian leaders at the local and state level who will seek office in 2006 and beyond.
HELPING INDIANS CAMPAIGN
INDN’s List doesn’t just fund Indian candidates; we also train them and their staffs and help them organize effective, winning campaigns. In preparation for the 2006 election cycle, we held our first INDN Training Camp in Minneapolis, MN this fall to train our candidates and their staffs, so they will have the resources and knowledge to win their campaigns. Each year, we hope to train young, talented individuals in the arts of American politics and prepare them for a long career in public service. Because of the close relationships that Indian Country shares, we ask our members to help identify bright, talented Indians who show leadership qualities to contact INDN so one of our Political Directors can contact them.
http://indnslist.org/HelpIndiansRun
Indian Laws and Treaties
Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties
Compiled and Edited by Charles J. Kappler
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/
