General Sites || Cultural Appropriation || Sites on Specific Nations || Sites for Southeastern Peoples || Sites for Southwestern Peoples
[Relax! "Cowboy.net" is simply a local internet-access service -- analogous to Atlanta's "Mindspring.com" -- in Stillwater, OK; Stillwater is home to Oklahoma State University, whose sports teams are called "The Cowboys."Lots of good Native American web pages here, up to the homepage for Russell Means, longtime AIM spokesman]
SITES ON CULTURAL APPROPRIATION OF NATIVE AMERICAN RELIGIONS
"Techniques for Evaluating American Indian Web Sites" (by Elaine Cubbins, librarian)
Detailed and
nuanced tips on how to distinguish webpages of authentic native
Americans from those of the culture-vultures.
"Bibliography on Cultural Appropriation" (by Dr. Diane Bell, Luce Professor of Religion, Holy Cross College)
Excellent bibliography of readings on the subject.
"Respect:
Wanting to Be an Indian:-When Spiritual Teaching Turns into Cultural
Theft"
(by Myke Johnson)
A good introductory reading.
"The Official Wanabi Tribe Home Page" (by Michael Two Horses, Sioux [Lakota], Rosebud reservation, South Dakota)
Homepage for the fund that help support tribal colleges throughout the U.S.
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The Choctaw Nation:none; cf. www.toners.com/choctaw; www.uiti.net/~michael/choctaw
Eastern Band of the Cherokee:www.uchsc.edu/sm/hnp/eastnhos.htm
[Cf. http://shaman.umn.edu/schools/ces/chief.htm:on
Principal Chief Joyce Dugan]
Cherokee Indian Reservation [aimed mostly at tourists]
Website for the Oglala Sioux (Pine Ridge Reservation)
Remember:
"The
American Indian College Fund"