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Take a virtual trip to Mesa Verde National Park; there are over four thousand archaeological sites that tell the story of more than 700 years of Native American History

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The Dizzying Dwellings of Mesa Verde National Park - Google Arts & Culture

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Mapping

We strive to map Indigenous territories, treaties, and languages across the world in a way that goes beyond colonial ways of thinking in order to better represent how Indigenous people want to see themselves.

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Native Land is a resource to learn more about Indigenous territories, languages, lands, and ways of life. We welcome you to our site.

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Learn the Importance of Land Acknowledgement

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Learn the Importance of Land Acknowledgement

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Learn about the enduring symbols of Indigenous Values

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Learn about the enduring symbols of Indigenous Values

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including the bison, the symbol of resourcefulness, survival and deep connection to nature.

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The American bison, popularly (and mistakenly) referred to as "the buffalo," is one of America's most recognizable symbols. In this exhibit, we invite you to explore the bison though museum objects across many different disciplines including art, archaeology, natural history, and history in the collections of the DOI bureaus and offices.

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The American Bison: A National Symbol - Google Arts & Culture

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Learn how the once endangered bison transcends history as an enduring aspect of Native American cultures and thrives as part our shared heritage

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Contemporary Perspectives in Indigenous Art

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Contemporary Perspectives in Indigenous Art

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Google Art & Culture has created a digital experience to guide you through some of the Denver Art Museums Contemporary Perspectives in Indigenous Art.

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Contemporary Perspectives in Indigenous Art - Google Arts & Culture

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Seven Indigenous artists who shed light onto the past and present.

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Explore the written works of Native Authors

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Explore the written works of Native Authors

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History/Politics
Bordewich, Fergus M. Killing The White Man's Indian; The Reinvention of Native Americans at the End of the 20th Century. New York: Anchor; 1st Anchor Books Trade Pbk. Ed edition, 1997.
Boye, Alan. Holding Stone Hands: On the Trail of the Cheyenne Exodus. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.
Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. New York: Owl Books, 2001.
Cahn, Edgar S. and David W. Hearne. Our Brother's Keeper: The Indian in White America. Cincinnati: New Community Press, 1972.

Cornell, Stephen. The Return of the Native: American Indian Political Resurgence. New York: Oxford Press, 1998.
Deloria, Vine. Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1969.
Deloria, Vine Jr. and Clifford M. Lytle. American Indians, American Justice. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983.

Deloria, Vine and David Wilkins. Tribes, Treaties, and Constitutional Tribulations. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999.
Deloria, Vine Jr. Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact. Golden: Fulcrum Publishing; Reissue edition, 1997.
Denetdale, Jennifer Nez. Reclaiming Diné History: The Legacies of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007.

Demos, John Putnam. The Unredeemed Captive. New York: Vintage, 1995

Dorris, Michael and Louise Erdrich. The Broken Cord: A Family's Ongoing Struggle with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. London: Harper Perennial, 1989.

Dorris, Michael. Morning Girl. New York: Hyperion, 1999.
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne and Dina Gilio-Whitaker. "All the Real Indians Died Off" and 20 Other Myths about Native Americans. Boston: Beacon Press, 2016.
Echo-Hawk, Walter, R. In the Light of Justice: The Rise of Human Rights in Native America and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Golden: Fulcrum Publishing, 2013.

Echo-Hawk, Walter, R. In the Courts of the Conqueror: The 10 Worst Indian Law Cases Ever Decided. Golden: Fulcrum Publishing, 2010.

Fleming, Walter. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Native American History. Royersford: Alpha Publishing, 2003.

Howe, Craig and Kim TallBear. eds. This Stretch of the River: Lakota, Dakota, & Nakota Responses to the Lewis & Clark Expedition and Bicentennial. Rapid City: Oak Lake Writers' Society, 2006.

Johnson, Troy, ed. Contemporary Native American Political Issues. Walnut Creek: Alta Mira Press, 1999.
Limerick, Patricia Nelson. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West. New York: W. W. Norton, 1987. Lyons, Oren. Exiled in the Land of the Free: Democracy, Indian Nations & the U.S. Constitution. Santa Fe: Clear Light Books, 1992.
Mason, Dale. Indian Gaming: Tribal Sovereignty and American Politics. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000.

McCool, Daniel. Native Waters - Contemporary Indian Water Settlements and the Second Treaty Era. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2002.

Meyer, John ed. American Indians and U.S. Politics: A Companion Reader. Westport: Praeger Paperback, 2002.

Neihardt, John. Black Elk Speak s. Lincoln: Bison Books, 2004.

O'Brien, Sharon. American Indian Tribal Governments. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989.

O'Brien, Sharon. Roots of Resistance: Land Tenure in New Mexico, 1680-1980. Los Angeles: University of California, 1980.

O'Brien, Sharon. Indians of the Americas: Human Rights and Self-Determination. New York: Zed Books, 1984.

Prucha, Francis Paul. Documents of United State Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.

Sale, Kirkpatrick. Conquest of Paradise. New York: Plume, 1991.

Smith, Andrea. Conquest: Sexual Violence And American Indian Genocide. Boulder: South End Press, 2005.

Stannard, David. American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Sullivan, Robert. A Whale Hunt: How a Native-American Village Did What No One Thought It Could. New York: Scribner, 2002.

Weatherford, Jack. Indian Givers. New York: Ballantine Books, 1989

Wilkins, David E. and K. Tsianina Lomawaima. Uneven Ground: American Indian Sovereignty and Federal Law. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001.

Wilkins, David E. American Indian Politics and the American Political System. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002.

Wilkins, David E. American Indian Sovereignty and the U.S. Supreme Court: The Masking of Justice. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997.

Wilkinson, Charles. American Indians, Time, and the Law. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.

Wilkinson, Charles. Blood Struggle. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2005.

Wittstock Waterman, Laura and Dick Bancroft. We Are Still Here: A Photographic History of the American Indian Movement. St. Paul: Borealis Books, 2013.

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Books | First Nations Development Institute

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The staff members of First Nations Development Institute have compiled a list of what they consider to be essential reading for anyone interested in the Native American experience. Certain entries on the list are boldfaced, indicating that the employees of First Nations consider them to be "a goo...

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Celebrate Native American resilience and the renaissance of Native food systems with the film, Gather.

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Celebrate Native American resilience and the renaissance of Native food systems with the film, Gather.

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The mission of First Nations Development Institute is to strengthen American Indian economies to support healthy Native communities. We believe that when armed with appropriate resources, Native peoples hold the capacity and ingenuity to ensure the sustainable, economic, spiritual and cultural well-…

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Celebrate Indigenous women by learning about the contributions of women through images and objects found in the Smithsonian National Museum of American Indian.

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Celebrate Indigenous women by learning about the contributions of women through images and objects found in the Smithsonian National Museum of American Indian.

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Celebrating Native American Women - Google Arts & Culture

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Selected stories honoring Native women’s contributions in building and sustaining America

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Support the global coalition bringing awareness on issues affecting global indigenous people.  

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Support the global coalition bringing awareness on issues affecting global indigenous people.  

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The Indigenous Peoples Movement is an organization dedicated to protecting the rights,...

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While Native-inspired designs are always a hit, the businesses on this list produce designs that are Native-made, not just Native-inspired

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Parade: Entertainment, Recipes, Health, Life, Holidays

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25 Indigenous and Native-Owned Businesses to Shop this Holiday

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Shop with intention during the holidays, and always, at these indigenous and native-owned businesses.

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Learn about the stories behind contemporary Inuit ceramics.  

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Learn about the stories behind contemporary Inuit ceramics.  

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Northern Visions illustrates how the artists of Rankin Inlet
draw upon tradition to create new works that embody the attributes of
the Inuit people: interconnectedness, resilience, strength, and
creativity. This exhibit highlights pieces from the Gardiner's permanent
collection and loans from a private collection, including works by Yvo
Samgushak, Roger Aksadjuak, John Kurok, and Leo Napayok.

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Northern Visions: Contemporary Inuit Ceramics - Google Arts & Culture

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Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online.

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Celebrate with the family, by watching the children's series, Spirit Rangers

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Celebrate with the family, by watching the children's series, Spirit Rangers

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Native American siblings Kodi, Summer and Eddy have a secret: They’re "Spirit Rangers" who help protect the national park they call home!

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Watch Spirit Rangers | Netflix Official Site

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Native American siblings Kodi, Summer and Eddy have a secret: They're "Spirit Rangers" who help protect the national park they call home! Watch trailers & learn more.

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Learn About Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Crisis

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Learn About Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Crisis

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A 2016 study by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) found that more than four in five American Indian and Alaska Native women (84.3 percent) have experienced violence in their lifetime, including 56.1 percent who have experienced sexual violence.

In the year leading up to the study, 39.8 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native women had experienced violence, including 14.4 percent who had experienced sexual violence.

Overall, more than 1.5 million American Indian and Alaska Native women have experienced violence in their lifetime.

Challenges

Victimization Rates

Native American and Alaska Native rates of murder, rape, and violent crime are all higher than the national averages. When looking at missing and murdered cases, data shows that Native American and Alaska Native women make up a significant portion of missing and murdered individuals.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) females experienced the second highest rate of homicide in 2020. Additionally, in 2020 homicide was in the top 10 leading causes of death for AI/AN females aged 1-45. More than 2 in 5 non-Hispanic AI/AN women (43.7%) were raped in their lifetime.

Non-Hispanic AI/AN males had the second highest rate of homicide compared with males in all other racial and ethnic groups. Homicide was in the top ten leading causes of death for AI/AN males 1 to 54 years old in the year 2020. 1 in 7 non-Hispanic AI/AN males (14.4%) were made to penetrate someone during their lifetime.

Human Trafficking

In September 2017, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report titled ''Human Trafficking: Investigations in Indian Country or Involving Native Americans and Actions Needed to Better Report on Victims Served.'' GAO surveyed tribal and major city law enforcement agencies and victim service providers on human trafficking investigations, victim services, and barriers to identifying and serving Native victims.

Twenty-seven of the 132 tribal law enforcement agencies that responded to the survey reported initiating investigations involving human trafficking from 2014 to 2016 and six of 61 major city law enforcement agencies reported initiating human trafficking investigations that involved at least one Native victim during the same time period.16 Survey respondents identified lack of training on identifying and responding appropriately to victims, victim shame and reluctance to come forward, and lack of service provider resources as barriers to investigating cases and serving victims.

Need for Focused Data

While these rates are staggering, research data shows that national averages hide the extremely high rates of murder against American Indian and Alaska Native women present in some counties comprised primarily of tribal lands. According to the National Institute of Justice Centers for Disease Control and prevention 2008 the National Violence Against Women Survey (NVAWS), less than half of violent victimizations against women are ever reported to police.

According to the National Crime Information Center, in 2016, there were 5,712 reports of missing American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls, though the US Department of Justice's federal missing persons database, but the national information clearinghouse and resource center for missing, unidentified, and unclaimed person cases across the United States, called the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) only logged 116 of those cases.

While it is estimated that rates of violence on reservation can be up to ten times higher than national averages, research is missing on rates of murder violence among American Indian and Alaska Native women living in urban areas. An NIJ-funded study from 2008 found that the rates of violence on reservations are much higher than the national average. However, according to the Urban Indian Health Institute, no research has been done on the rates of such violence among American Indian and Alaska Native women living in urban areas despite the fact that approximately 71 percent of American Indian and Alaska Natives live in urban areas.

Moreover, reports indicate that there is no reliable count of how many Native women go missing or are killed each year.11 Researchers have found that women are often misclassified as Hispanic or Asian or other racial categories on missing-person forms and that thousands have been left off a federal missing-persons.

Need for Investigative Resources

Statistics show us that approximately 1,500 American Indian and Alaska Native missing persons have been entered into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) throughout the U.S. and approximately 2,700 cases of Murder and Nonnegligent Homicide Offenses have been reported to the Federal Government's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program. In total, BIA estimates there are approximately 4,200 missing and murdered cases that have gone unsolved.

These investigations remain unsolved often due to a lack of investigative resources available to identify new information from witness testimony, re-examine new or retained material evidence, as well as reviewing fresh activities of suspects.

Additional Information

Additional Resources

Contact Us

Office of Justice Services Headquarters

1849 C Street NW, MS-3662-MIB
Washington, DC 20240

Open 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Monday-Friday.

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Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Crisis

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A 2016 study by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) found that more than four in five American Indian and Alaska Native women (84.3 percent) have experienced violence in their lifetime, including 56.1 percent who have experienced sexual violence.

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Support the End of Systemic Violence on Indigenous People

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Support the End of Systemic Violence on Indigenous People

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From the First Nations people of "Canada" to the Inuit of the Arctic Circle, Turtle Island or the North "American" continent without borders: the land, air, water, animal relatives and Indigenous people are suffering from a violent 500+ year colonial history.

It is a reality that delves deep into the heart of a legacy predominated by patriarchal control and a conquered landscape. One of the most difficult and continual issues Indigenous People face is the extremely high rate of missing and murdered people. Indigenous People go missing at a rate 10 times the national average, with 2SLGBTQAI+ women and youth at the most risk. Beyond data, Indigenous people live with this reality in our hearts, minds, spirits and bodies.

The Missing and Murdered epidemic is so much, that it touches the lives of all Indigenous People. Perhaps the most devastating reality is Native People are often not found once they go missing, an experience that can crumble communities and take generations to heal from.

[ 2sLGBTQAI+ - Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer, Questioning, Asexual, and Intersex+]

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MMIWhoismissing stands in relation with all land & water protectors, Black & Afro-Indigenous Relatives, 2 Spirit & LGBTQAI+

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The Modern Native American Story with Eric Hernandez

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The Modern Native American Story with Eric Hernandez

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The Modern Native American Story | Eric Hernandez | TEDxUCIrvine