American Indian Resources

2008 American Indian Youth Literature Awards

	Author:  Sherman Alexie Title:  The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
	Author:  Tim Tingle Title:  Crossing Bok Chitto In the 1800s, a Choctaw girl becomes friends with a slave boy from a plantation across the great river, and when she learns that his family is in trouble, she helps them cross to freedom.
	Author:  Joseph Medicine Crow Title:  Counting Coup: Becoming a Crow Chief on the Reservation and Beyond Meet Joseph Medicine Crow, a man raised in two worlds: according to the Crow Indian traditions and according to White man's rules.

Contemporary American Indian Authors

Web Links

• National Museum of the American Indian - Enjoy webcasts and podcasts of American Indian writers, artists, and performers, view exhibitions and educational programs, all available online.
  
  
• Native American Law Resources, Washburn University School of Law - An excellent list of resources including significant case law, primary materials, directories, research guides, and tribal court codes and constitutions.
  
  
• Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian Photographic Images - View the digital collection of 2,228 illustrations of eighty tribes portrayed in Curtis's 20-volume set.
  
  
• Campfire Stories with George Catlin: An Encounter of Two Cultures- In the 1830s George Catlin trekked through the tribal territories of the Great Plains, visited 140 tribes, painted over 325 portraits, and collected traditional stories.
  
  
• California Indian Museum and Cultural Center - Museum of the history and heritage of California's Indians told from a native perspective.
  
  
• Native American Library Association mega site - Links to all Native American sites on the web.
  
  
• American Indian Film Institute - A non-profit media arts center founded in 1979 to foster understanding of the culture, traditions and issues of contemporary Native Americans.