Native American and Indigenous Peoples

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• Tribal Directory (from the National Congress of American Indians, searchable by tribe, keyword, or area)
• iPortal: Indigenous Studies Portal Research Tool (created by the University of Saskatchewan)

Ethnobotany

• Native American Ethnobotany
  A database of plants used as drugs, foods, dyes, fibers, and more, by native Peoples of North America.

Literature

• American Indians in Children's Literature
  Established in 2006 by Dr. Debbie Reese of Nambé Pueblo, American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL) provides critical analysis of Indigenous peoples in children's and young adult books.

Business Development

• The National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development
  The National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with over
  50 years of assisting American Indian Tribes and tribal people with business and economic development.

NAGPRA

• National Park Service: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
  By enacting NAGPRA, Congress recognized that human remains of any ancestry "must at all times be treated with dignity and respect." Congress also acknowledged that human remains and other cultural items removed from Federal or tribal lands belong, in the first instance, to lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, and Native Hawaiian organizations. (US Senate Report 101-473).
• Carrying Our Ancestors Home
  A working group of tribal practitioners, tribal members, museum professionals, and academics, have worked to create this website as an educational tool for people seeking to understand the process and diversity of returning ancestral remains and cultural items as well as the impact of repatriation on Indigenous communities around the world.

Language

• Native Languages of the Americas: Preserving and Promoting American Indian Languages
  Online resources, books, and information about Native American languages, religion, names, art, and geneaology.

• Nevada's Indian Territory
  Website for the Washoe, Northern Paiute, Western Shoshone, and Southern Paiute tribes in Nevada. Included are maps, travel itineraries, tribal artists, photographs and videos, and more.
• Reno-Sparks Indian Colony
• Directory of Native American Tribes in Nevada