This is only a small sampling of the tens of thousands of nonprofit non-government organizations who are altruistically doing jobs that their government has neglected and in most cases have opposed. This latter fact speaks to the present dysfunction, counterproductivity, and failure of most of today's unaccountable governments (but accountable in terms of large sums of money to the transnational corporate elitists) who are bent on continuing their control, manipulation, and exploitation of their people, just as they exploit and subjugate natural systems, wildlife and natural resources. In most cases the following organizations represent the common vision and legitimate struggle for people's rights of self determination in the face of transnational greedy paranoiac aggression by alien, corrupt, distant, absent and faceless self serving cartels of power. The people below -- the assemblage of rainbow warriors represent a common spirit for liberation, dignity, harmony, justice, and balance -- they, and a hundred times them, will serve joyously to build the RAINBOWBRIDGE for future generations .
Abya Yala Net Abya Yala means "Continent of Life" in the language of the Kuna peoples of Panama and Colombia. Here you will find much information on Indigenous peoples in Mexico, Central, and South America.
See also below links for Leonard Pelletier, Dennis Banks, John Trudell, wounded kneee, Fire in the Prairie, Pine Ridge, and Russell Means.
AIM - The American Indian Movement : Grand Governing Council.
AIM - Confederation of Autonomous Chapters
Akwesasne Notes is a Journal for Native and Natural Peoples. Of the best quality and many articles by John Mohawk. Part of the Mohawk Nation
AKWESASNE TASK FORCE ON THE ENVIRONMENT (ATFE) at http://www.Mohawknation.org A community based, grass-roots organization formed in 1987 to address the environmental problems facing the Mohawk Nation community of Akwesasne. The mission of the Akwesasne Task Force on the Environment is to conserve, preserve, protect and restore the environment, natural and cultural resources within the Mohawk territory of Akwesasne (see map) in order to promote the health and survival of the sacred web of life for future generations and to fulfill our responsibilities to the natural world as our Creator has instructed
Alpha Institute: Combining traditional ways of indigenous peoples and advanced communications technology to help assure the survival of diverse cultures and the planet.
Alpha Institute's Indigenous Links An excellent long list of indigenous, environmental, and activist links.
American Indian Network Over 8000 Links to NAtive American Subjects
American Indian Studies: dedicated to the presentation of artwork, photographs, video and sound recordings in an effort to share native culture and history. MAintained by Phil Konstantin.
Baiki: Journal of the North American Sami Peoples,. are the 100,000 Indigenous inhabitants of Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Russian Kola Peninsula. After a 500-year period of colonization by Norway and Sweden during which the Sami nature religion, the Sami language, and the Sami joik were forbidden, the Sami people in the Nordic countries are experiencing a rebirth of their ancestral belief system, language and cultural expressions. Concern for the environment has lead them to become active in international Indigenous organizations including NGO status in the UN.
Basic Call to Consciousness This site has great vision. It is the gateway site to "Akwesasane Notes", "Spiritualism- The Highest form of Politics", "Policies of Oppression in the Name of 'Democracy' Economic History of the Hau de no sau nee", and more. Highly recommended
BIG MOUNTAIN DINEH RELOCATION RESISTANCE The struggle for survival of the Navajo people at Big Mountain
Bill's Aboriginal Links Canada and US An excellent, long, and well maintained indigenous peoples links specific to North America.
Bill's Aboriginal Links An excellent, well maintained, and very long list of World Wide indigenous peoples links
Black Elk Earth Prayer & The Sunset Short quotes from Black Elk (Oglala Sioux)
Black Hills Treaty the actual hand written treaty of 1868 (from teh national Archives Web site)
Brownmousemedicineco A sweet and loving site with excellent links
Cabeza de Vaca
Vaca.com journey
Cabeza
de Vaca OPEN DIRECTORY
Short history and reading list for Cabeza de Vaca
Cabeza
De Vaca PBS
Cabeza da Vaca TXT
Cabeza de Vaca Questions
Cabeza
de Vaca Life
Cabeza de Vaca
Cabeza de Vaca Account
Canku Ota: (Many Paths) An Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America
Center For World Indigenous Studies Dedicated to wider understanding and appreciation of the ideas and knowledge of indigenous peoples and the social, economic and political realities of indigenous nations
Clota (Cultures and Literature of the Americas)
Covert War Against Natives Ward Churchill
Cultural Land Trust (Maui, Hawaii) HE ALI`I KA `AINA, HE KAUA KE KANAKA -- The land is a chief, man is steward
Cultural Survival:
EthnoSphere developing new strategies for responding directly to the critical
needs of the world's indigenous populations.
Dark Night Press
Dennis Banks Home Page AIM co-founder and creative visionary
Dialogue Between Nations -- Racism
Dreamspeakers Annual Native American Film Festival in Canada
Earth Forum Two-- Moscow Message
Fire on the Prairie Pine Ridge
First Nations: Issues of Consequences (Dick Shovel)
Fountain of Light -- Information, Illumination, Imagination
Ganondagan State Historic Site
Gathering For EcoCulture: On going programs to create a sustainable partnership with our public schools; to integrate EcoCulture as a long-term and replicable model for a national ecological and multi-cultural program.To train leaders who will encourage and guide teachers to begin the process of viewing their environment from a different perspective using, tribal stories, folklore, mythology, songs, and dances. Next big GATHERING is August 2003.
Gathering of Nations Live Indian radio via the Internet, NAtive News, the Annual Gathering of Nations Pow Wow in Alberquerque -- April 25-27, 2002 among other things.
Great Peace...The Gathering of GoodMinds
Haskell Indian Nations University
Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force
Hawaiian Indigenous Links for Environmental and Economic Justice, Traditional Rights, and Native Resource Projects at www.kahea.org
Hawaii Nation -- self determination movement in Hawaii
Holy Tree of Life - Hyemeyohosts Storm
Honor Our Neighbors Origins and Rights HONOR is an organization devoted to protecting the rights of Native Americans by monitoring legislation and educating the general public about Native American issues. It distrubutes educational tools such as More Than Bows and Arrows, Rediscovering America/Redescubriendo America, Columbus on Trial, and many others.
Hopi Prophecies Messages to the United Nation
How the Eagle First Came to the People By KiiskeeN'tum (She Who Remembers) Turtle Island Centre Family Services, Manitoba, Canada
Indian Country News The news from Indian Country is a twice-monthly, independent, Indian-owned newspaper supplying national news, pow-wow dates, and information to all of Indian Country. Unfortunately this site has not become updated recently.
Indian Country Today Newspaper Uptodate, active, high quality, and comprehensive daily news source. Highly Recommended
Indians.org website of the American Indian Heritage Foundation (AIHF). Funded by large corporations and offers aid within the overall prsent day dominant paradigm
Indigenous electronic texts by Udownload
Indigenous Environmental Network Very excellent site (higholy recommended)
Indigenous Health and Culture Herbs
Indigenous Links from Alpha Institute
Indigenous Peoples Biodiversity Information Network (IPBIN) a mechanism to exchange information about experiences and projects and to increase collaboration among indigenous groups working on common causes related to biodiversity use and conservation
Indigenous perspectives on food, health & medicine
The Iroquois Constitution at the University of Oklahoma Law School
John Mohawk BBC News Interview
John Mohawk Article Sovereignty
John Mohawk The Great Law of Peace from We Hold These Truths.Org
John Mohawk "WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM NATIVE AMERICA ABOUT WAR AND PEACE": The Progressive Pragmatism of the Iroquois Confederacy
John Trudell excerpts from Stickman
Kahea an alliance of Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) cultural practitioners, environmental activists and others concerned about cultural rights and our fragile environment
Leonard Peltier & AIM Information
Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
Manataka American Indian Council
Native America Calling Interview with Vernon Bellecourt and Ward Churchill
Native American Knowledge Resources
Native American Artists Online
Native American Authors IPL At the Internet Public Library
Native American Author- Katsi Cook
Native Authors On-Line At the North American Native Authors Catalog
Native American Documents Project
Native American Elder Janet McCloud & Sapa Dawn Janet McCloud was born March 30, 1934 on the Tulalip reservation in Washington state. She is descended from the Chief Seattle family.
Native American Journalists Assn
Native American News Archives Wotanging Ikche
Native
American Political Systems 1987 Native American Political Systems
and the Evolution of Democracy:
An Annotated Bibliography
Native American Public
Telecommunications
Native Americans and the Environment This non-profit project has three goals:
Native Prayers and Sayings (excellent)
Native Net Sites : THE FOLLOWING NATIVE NET
SITES ARE A TREMENDOUS RESOURCE
NativeNet Wounded Knee articles from NATIVE-L
NativeNet Home Page and gateway to native forums, lists, and archives
Native Tech: An educational web site that covers topics of Native American technology and emphasizes the Eastern Woodlands region. The web site is organized into categories of Beadwork, Birds & Feathers, Clay & Pottery, Leather & Clothes, Metalwork, Plants & Trees, Porcupine Quills, Stonework & Tools, and Weaving & Cordage.
NativeTech Native American Message Boards
NativeWeb Resources Cases & Controversies
NativeWeb: Resources for Indigenous Cultures around the World. It doesn't get much better. Maintained by David Cole
Neahtawanta Center in Traverse City, Michigan. A primary function has been to facilitate and sponsor workshops/gatherings on a variety of topics relating to sustainable living, spirituality, communication skills, and healing.
NECONA Native American Environmentalists working to keep nuclear waste off Indian lands.
News From Indian Country: An Independent Native Journal. See their article archives
Oneida Nation Oneida Indian grass roots organization
Oren Lyons (Faith keeper of the Turtle Clan) Interview with Bill Moyers July 3, 1991
Peace 4 Turtle Island Haudenosaunee Iroquois built on the philosophy that Peace can be obtained for all the sacred colors of mankind and harmony restored to Mother Earth when people honor and respect the original instructions that were given to each people by the Creator.
Peace and Dignity Peace and Dignity Journeys are spiritual runs that embody the prophecy of the Eagle and Condor. This prophecy mandates that at this time all Indigenous people in the Western Hemisphere shall be reunited in a spiritual way for the following reasons: to reconnect us to our spiritual practices and traditions; to help us relearn our role in the world as indigenous people; and to remind us of our responsibilities to Mother Earth, Father Sky, our communities, and ourselves.
Poems and Stories by KiiskeeN'tum
Prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor as told by many Native nations in the Western Hemisphere.
Prophecy of Eagle and Condor As told by John Perkins of Dream Change Coalition
Prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor -- Inca and Mayan
Race and Ethnicity Studies University of Wisconsin Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in Medicine - Good Links, good programs, good place.
Rainbow Tribe Ed McGaa (Eagle Man)
Seventh Generation Fund Board of Directors
Shadow Woman's Main Site with writings and links and ShadowWoman's Forum and Native American Issues
Shundahai Network Peace and Harmony with All Creation
Sovereignty from the Indigenous Perspective
Survival for Tribal Peoples Survival is a worldwide organisation supporting tribal peoples. It stands for their right to decide their own future, and helps them protect their lives, lands, and human rights. It works for tribal peoples' rights in three complementary ways: education, campaigns and funding while offering tribal people themselves a platform to address the world. Survival works with local indigenous organisations focusing on tribal peoples who have the most to lose, usually those most recently in contact with the outside world.
Sunray The website of Dhyani Ywahoo's Beauty Way Teachings. Home fire of the Green Mountain Aniyunwiwa and a Tibetan Buddhist Dharma center of the Nyingma and Drikung Kagyu schools, Sunray is composed of three distinct schools: Native American Studies, Buddhist Studies, and Healing Arts. Sunray Practices embody three ancient intact spiritual lineages. The common thread: teaching practical means to realize compassion and right relationship with Earth and all relations.
Thunderbird Twins - by KiiskeeN'tum
Traditional Medicine Program; Located in Kanonkwatsheri:io Health Facility (part of the Mohawk Council facillities)
Treaty Productions Russel Means
treatycouncil.org- International Indian Treaty Counci. An organization of Indigenous Peoples from North, Central, South America and the Pacific working for the Sovereignty and Self-Determination of Indigenous Peoples and the recognition and protection of Indigenous Rights, Traditional Cultures and Sacred Lands.
Turtle Island News Canada's On-Line Native News Source
United Native America -- United Native America was formed in 1993 as a nation wide grass roots movement to bring about a federal national holiday for Native Americans. Many excellent resources
University of Virginia E-book Project; Books by and about native Americans
VOICES OF RESISTANCE: native sovereigntists writing and speaking from the front-lines of North Amerikkka
Ward Churchill "The Suppression of Indigenous Sovereignty in 20th Century United States" See Ward's ZNet Home Page
Ward Churchill " Crimes Against Humanity"
WWW Virtual Library: Index/Links of Native American Resources on the WWW
Walking Antelope - Walkinggiant.com.
Western Australian Aboriginal Artists Advisory: DUMBARTUNG ABORIGINAL CORPORATION. Australian Aboriginal page which attempts to counteract the claims of Mutant Message.
Winds of Change American Indian-published and nationally distributed full-color magazine with a focus on career and educational advancement for Native people. Articles highlight cross-cultural issues of interest to both Native and non-Native people.
Wisdom Keepers:An educational organization dedicated to creating culturally and historically accurate educational programs and resources on indigenous cultures from the People of those cultures rather than about the cultures.
Wotanging Ikche - Native American News
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