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A Few of Our Favorite Links
Below are links to some of our
favorite sites, and descriptions of them. Please feel
free to click away--but do come back sometime, OK?
The Duwamish--Chief Seattle's
mother's tribe--are fighting for recognition from the
U.S. Federal Government. It was granted once on the
very last day of President Clinton's administration,
but then rescinded by George W. Bush. Help out the
Duwamish in their struggle--support the tribe with a
contribution!
The Suquamish have inhabited the
Puget Sound basin for thousands of years. They are
expert fishermen, carvers, basketmakers, and canoe
builders. For a time in the 19th century, their leader
was Chief
Seattle, from whom the city of Seattle took its
name. Their seat of government is on the Port Madison
Reservation, on Puget Sound, across from the city of
Seattle in the state of Washington, USA. Like most
non-profits, they could sure use funding. It would
help keep their rich tribal heritage alive and
thriving. Their Tribal Museum is a wonderful place to
visit if you're ever vacationing in Seattle. It's an
easy ferry ride away from downtown Seattle.
The American Indian College Fund (AICF)
is a great educational organization that deserves your
support. Launched in 1989, it raises funds to support
29 tribal colleges in the United States that educate
American Indians. Foundations underwrite all of the
Fund's administrative costs, so all gifts to the Fund
go directly to the colleges for scholarships for
Indian youth, plus other needs. The AICF seeks to
raise not only money, but also to promote awareness of
the benefit of tribally controlled higher education.
“Think of all the time you spend
clicking aimlessly or fruitlessly around the Web. At
the Hunger Site, one click actually accomplishes
something: It sends a serving of food to a starving
person, at no cost to you. Corporate sponsors provide
the food in exchange for free advertisement and links.
Since its June 1 start-up, the site has sent enough
money to the United Nations’ World Food Program to
purchase more than 4 million servings of dietary
staples; a WFP official calls it ‘an extraordinary
testimony to the power of the Internet.’ The
privacy-protected site is run without profit by John
Breen, an Indiana software programmer who initially
wanted to support Third World education but decided
hunger was the priority. As his world map arrestingly
illustrates, starvation kills 24,000 people daily,
most of them children.” -- The Washington Post (USA),
October 15, 1999
This site, run by a man from Denmark,
offers a lot of fine information about the
misrepresentation of Chief Seattle's speech, plus
links to other Chief Seattle sites.
An online gallery of one-of-a-kind
original works of art lovingly created by a member of
the Isleta Pueblo from a reservation just south of
Albuquerque, New Mexico. This collection of authentic
American Indian Arts and
Crafts includes gourds, paintings, decorative
pillows, masks, and other contemporary interpretations
of traditional American Indian designs.
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