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Native Americans / Indians of North America - Pacific Northwest & Northwest Coast (mainly in or near Washington State)

General Information

• American Historical Images on File: The Native American Experience (a collection of historic images, organized chronologically)

• American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Collection (University of Washington)

• Bureau of Indian Affairs (U.S. Government)

• Chief Seattle and Chief Joseph: From Indians to Icons (University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections)

• The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture - Ethnology.

• Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian (book & photos by noted photographer published in 1913)

• The Ethnography of Lewis and Clark: Native American Objects and the American Quest for Commerce and Science (Peabody Museum, Harvard University)

• Indian Tribes of the Northwest map (National Park Service)

• Indians.org (American Indian Heritage Foundation) - Resources include Tribal Directory, Indigenous People's Literature and extensive list of bookmarks.

• The Last Indian War (article about fishing rights and broken treaties in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho)

• Languages of Oregon - Native American languages of Oregon

• Links to American Indian Sites, Introductory page by Phil Konstantin

• Living Traditions: Museums Honour the North American Indigenous Games (Virtual Museum of Canada).

• National Museum of the American Indian

• Native American Sites (Home Pages) - Large directory of sites organized by various categories)

• Native Americans of Puget Sound: a snapshot history of the first people and their cultures (HistoryLink.org)

• Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest: An Introduction (University of Washington)

• Native Web - Resources for Indigenous Cultures around the World

• National Congress of American Indians

• U.S. Census Bureau: American Indian and Alaska Native Data and Links

• Washington State Governor's Office of Indian Affairs

• Yakima Valley Museum: Dark Times, Bright Visions (Online exhibit about Native American tribes from the Central Plateau between the Cascade and Rocky Mountains Ranges.)

Art

• Bill Holm Center for the Study of Northwest Coast Art

• Coastal Arts Online Gallery - Native Art of the Pacific Northwest Coast

• Deschutes Gallery - Northwest Coast Native Art.

• Homecoming for the Totem Poles (UNESCO Courier)

• Northwest Native Carvings (Shelton, WA)

• Totem Poles (Slide show from Simon Frazier University)

• Totem Poles: Heraldic Columns of the Northwest Coast (University of Washington)

• Totem Poles, Present at the Creation (NPR)

Tribes, Nations, Confederations & Reservations

• Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians

• The Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians Flag

• Blackfeet Nation (Montana)

• Blackfoot Nation (Montana)

• Brian Thom's Coast Salish Home Page

• Cayuse and Other First Peoples of the Columbia Plateau (National Park Service)

• Cayuse Indian Tribe History (Access Genealogy Indian Tribal Records)

• Char-Koosta News: The official news publication of the Flathead Indian Nation

• Chelan County - Thumbnail History (HistoryLink article contains information on Wenatchee and Chelan tribes.)

• Chilluckittequaw Indian Tribes (Access Genealogy Indian Tribal Records)

• Chinook Indian Tribe Online Records (Access Genealogy Indian Tribal Records)

• Chinook Indians (Lewis and Clark, PBS)

• The Chinook Jargon: selected references for students and scholars

• Chinook Nation (Southwest Washington State)

• Chinook Tribes (article from The Native American Tribes of North America: A Concise Encyclopedia)

• Clallam Indian Tribe History including information on Chief Cheetsamahoin (Access Genealogy Indian Tribal Records)

• Clatsop Indians (Lewis and Clark, PBS)

• Clatsop-Nehalem Confederated Tribes (Turner, Oregon)

• Coast Salish Collections: Archaeology and Ethnology of the Gulf of Georgia.

• Coast Salish Villages of Puget Sound (map of known villages, c. 1800)

• Coer d'Alene Indians (article from Catholic Encyclopedia)

• Coer d'Alene Tribe (Schitsu'umsh) - (Idaho)

• Coer d'Alene (Schitsu'umsh) - (University of Washington)

• Colville Confederated Tribes Flag

• Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes: Bitterroot Salish, Pend d'Oreille and Kootenai Tribes (Flathead Reservation, MT)

• Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde (Western Oregon)

• Confederated Tribes of Siletz (Oregon)

• Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis: Upper Cowlitz and Upper & Lower Chehalis Tribes (Lewis County, WA)

• Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis (U-S-History.com)

• Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation (North Central Washington State)

• Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation: Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla Tribes (Pendleton, OR)

• Cowlitz Indian Tribe (Longview, WA)

• The Cowlitz Tribe (U-S-History.com)

• Discover Cathlapotle (The Chinook: People of the [Columbia] River)

• Duwamish Indian Tribe History including information on Chief Seattle (Access Genealogy Indian Tribal Records)

• Duwamish Indian Tribes (Access Genealogy Indian Tribal Records)

• Duwamish Tribe - "Connecting the world with Seattle's first people"

• False Promises: The Lost Land of the Wenatchi

• Free Swinomish

• "The History of the Wenatchi Fishing Reservation," by E. Richard Hart.

• Hoh River Indian Tribe (Indian Health Service, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services)

• The Hoh River Native American Tribe (U-S-History.com)

• Hoh Tribal Profile (Forks, WA)

• The Indian Tribes of North America (Oregon), by John R. Swanton (Smithsonian Institution, 1952)

• The Indian Tribes of North America (Washington), by John R. Swanton (Smithsonian Institution, 1952)

• Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe (Olympic Peninsula)

• The Jamestown S'Klallam Nation Flag

• Kalispel Indians (article from Catholic Encyclopedia)

• Kalispel Tribe of Indians (Pend Oreille River)

• Klikitat Indian History (Access Genealogy Indian Tribal Records)

• Kwakiutl Recipes (Bruce Hallman)

• Lake Indians (article from Catholic Encyclopedia)

• The Lower Elwha Klallam Nation Flag

• Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe (near Port Angeles, WA)

• The Lummi Indian Nation (U-S-History.com)

• Lummi Indians (article from Catholic Encyclopedia)

• Lummi Nation - Lhaq'temish: People of the Sea (Bellingham, WA)

• The Lushootseed Peoples of Puget Sound Country (University of Washington)

• Makah.com. The official website of the Makah Tribe (Olympic Peninsula).

• The Makah Nation (U-S-History.com)

• The Makah Nation Flag

• The Makah Nation on Washington's Olympic Peninsula.

• The Makah Tribe: People of the Sea and the Forest (article from University of Washington Libraries Digital Collection)

• McKenney and Hall Indian Tribes of North America (University of Washington)

• Muckleshoot Indian Tribe (Auburn, WA)

• The Muckleshoot Nation Flag

• The Muckleshoot Tribe (U-S-History.com)

• Native Americans of Oregon (map of language groups and links)

• Native Puget Sound (Tulalip Elementary School)

• The Nez Perce (University of Washington)

• Nez Perce Education and Information (courtesy of Western Treasures)

• The Nez Perce Indians (Lewis and Clark, PBS)

• The Nez Perce Nation Flag

• Nez Perce National Historic Park (National Park Service)

• Nez Perce National Historic Trail

• The Nez Perce War: 1877 (U-S-History.com)

• Nisqually Indian Tribe (Thurston County, WA)

• Nooksack Indian Tribe (U-S-History.com)

• Nooksack Tribe (Deming, WA)

• Okanagon Indian Tribe (Access Genealogy Indian Tribal Records)

• People of the Columbia Plains (selection from The Great Columbia Plain: a historical geography 1805-1920, by D.W. Meinig)

• Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe (Kingston, WA)

• Puyallup Indian Tribe (U-S-History.com)

• Puyallup Indians (article from Catholic Encyclopedia)

• Puyallup Tribe Profile (Tacoma, WA)

• "Remembering the Cycle of the Season," by Dr. David A. Cameron. (Article on the food supply of the Sauk-Suiattle, Stillaguamish, Snohomish, and Skykomish people in the 1800s.)

• Quileute Tribe (Forks, WA)

• Quileute Tribe (U-S-History.com)

• The Quileute Nation Flag

• Quinault Indian Nation (Olympic Peninsula, WA)

• Quinault Indian Nation (U-S-History.com)

• Quinault Indian Tribe (Access Genealogy Indian Tribal Records)

• Quinault Museum (Tahola, Olympic Peninsula, WA)

• The Quinault Nation Flag

• Salishan Indian Dialects

• Salishan Indian Family History (Access Genealogy Indian Tribal Records)

• Salmon, the Lifegiving Gift (University of Washington)

• Samish Indian Nation (Anacortes, WA)

• Samish Indian Nation (U-S-History.com)

• Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe (near Darrington, WA)

• Shahaptian (or Nez Perce) Indian Family History (Access Genealogy Indian Tribal Records)

• Shoalwater Bay Indian Reservation: "Mysterious force attacks small western tribe's young in the womb." (New York Times article, March 26, 2000)

• Shoalwater Bay Tribe (Washington State Governor's Office of Indian Affairs)

• The Shoalwater Bay Tribe (Puget Sound Intertribal Planning Agency)

• "Shoalwater tribe sounds alarm over fetal deaths." Seattle Post-Intelligencer article, February 22, 1999.

• The Siletz Tribe (U-S-History.com)

• Sinkiuse/Sinkyone Indian Tribe History includes information on Chief Joseph (Access Genealogy Indian Tribal Records)

• S'Klallam Tribe (U-S-History.com)

• Skokomish Indian Tribe (U-S-History.com)

• Skokomish Tribal Nation (Skokomish, WA)

• Snohomish Tribe of Indians

• Snoqualmie Indian Chief (Access Genealogy Indian Tribal Records)

• Snoqualmie Nation (East King & Snohomish Counties, WA)

• South Puget Intertribal Planning Agency

• Spokan Indian Tribe History including information on Chief Moses (Access Genealogy Indian Tribal Records)

• Spokan Indians (article from Catholic Encyclopedia)

• The Spokane Nation Flag

• Spokane Tribe of Indians (WA)

• Squaxin Island Tribe (South Puget Sound, WA)

• Squaxin Island Indian Tribe (U-S-History.com)

• Steilacoom Tribe (WA)

• Stillaguamish Indian Tribe (U-S-History.com)

• Stillaguamish Tribe (Indian Health Service, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services)

• Stillaguamish Tribe's Natural Resources Department

• Stories about Haida Gwaii (British Columbia)

• Suquamish Culture.

• Suquamish Indian Tribe (U-S-History.com)

• Suquamish Tribe (Port Madison Indian Reservation, WA)

• Swinomish Indian Tribal Community (La Conner, WA)

• Swinomish Indian Tribe (U-S-History.com)

• Swinomish Indians (article from Catholic Encyclopedia)

• Tillamook Indians (Lewis and Clark, PBS)

• The Tlingit of the Northwest Coast (Carnegie Museum of Natural History)

• Tlingit National Anthem, Alaska Natives and Native Americans online

• Tribes Fight to Keep Native Culture Alive (article about San Juan and Snohomish Tribes)

• Tulalip Tribes (near Marysville, Snohomish County, WA)

• Tulalip Tribes (U-S-History.com)

• The Tulalip Tribes Flag

• Upper Skagit Tribe (U-S-History.com)

• Upper Skagit Tribe (Sedro, WA)

• Walla-Walla Indians (article from Catholic Encyclopedia)

• Walla Walla Indians (Lewis and Clark, PBS)

• The Warm Springs, Wasco and Northern Paiute Flag

• Wasco Indian History (Access Genealogy Indian Tribal Records)

• Washington Indian Tribe History: includes information on the Chehalis, Chimakum, Stehtsasamish, Stillaquamish, Puyallup, Salish, and Quileute. (Access Genealogy Indian Tribal Records)

• Washington Indian Tribes: Access Genealogy Indian Tribal Records

• Washington State Tribal Directory and Information

• Washington Tribal Locations (map)

• Wishram Indians (Lewis and Clark, PBS)

• Yakama Indian Nation (Online Highways)

• Yakima Indian Tribe History (Access Genealogy Indian Tribal Records)

• Yakima Indians (article from Catholic Encyclopedia)

• Yakima Nation Cultural Heritage Center (Toppenish, WA)

• The Yakima or Yakama Nation Flag

• Yakima Nation Tribal Profile (Toppenish, WA)