The creation of culturally and socially relevant Internet content is essential to the development of tribal constituencies and legitimate representation of American Indians on the Internet. Although many tribes and tribal organizations have official web sites, there exist many more that misrepresent the culture, beliefs, and general information of tribes. The challenge for tribes and individual American Indians today is to produce content in all forms (multimedia, Internet, and broadcast) in order to use the medium of an online community for the formation of tribal constituencies and public opinion - and to bring tribal content on the web to a new level of utilization, not just representation.

2002
2001 Archives
Links

2002

• Inuit Find Home on the Web, BBC News, 7/16/02
• Haskell Indian Nations University Eyes Online Exhibits, Lawrence Journal, 6/3/02
• Nooksack Program Bringing Ancient Language Back To Life, Associated Press, 2/21/02

2001 Archives

• Native Web sites gaining interest, visits, Lincoln Journal Star, 4/16/01
  
• Grant will help tribes get online medical info, Spokesman-Review, 3/27/01
  
• Four Directions To Making The Internet Indian, Benton Foundation, 5/2/01
  

Links

• Tribal Connections, Connecting American Indian/Alaska Native Communities To Health Resources on the Internet (National Libraries of Medicine/University of Washington partnership with 16 tribes in the Pacific Northwest
• Indianz.com, Ho-Chunk, Inc.'s Internet portal featuring news and information
• Pechanga.net, A daily Indian-owned and operated online news service featuring gaming and other stories of interest to tribal governments
  
• Native America Calling, Web site with streaming live and archived audio of Native America Calling
  
• Indian Country Today, Current edition and selected archived articles, including employment listing