Student Resources

Links Chapter 15

Center for World Indigenous Studies
http://cwis.org
An organization dedicated to research and education for access to indigenous peoples knowledge and ideas, conflict resolution based on mutual consent, and protecting the rights of indigenous peoples.

Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources
http://indigenouspeoplesissues.com/
A listing and discussion of indigenous groups around the world, with links to many specific groups

International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
http://www.iwgia.org/sw155.asp
“IWGIA's overall goal is to endorse and promote indigenous peoples' right to self-determination, their cultural integrity and their right to development on their own conditions. In order to fulfil this mission, IWGIA works within a wide range of areas: Documentation, publication, human rights, lobbying, advocacy, research and projects.  Also provides a free PDF download of The Indigenous World 2009.

The Peoples of the World Foundation
http://www.peoplesoftheworld.org/index.jsp
A site promoting “education for and about Indigenous Peoples,” “The subject of our work is photoethnography (also called ethnophotography), and visual anthropology, as opposed to ethnology or general anthropology. There are many resources on the web as well as in libraries and bookstores dealing with ethnology and anthropology. Our aim is not to produce a dissertation on the ethnology or anthropology of any group. Rather the site is a reflection of the time that we, and others, have spent with these peoples as well as a contemporary snapshot of their changing lives.”

World’s Indigenous Peoples
http://www.indigenouspeople.net/world.htm
Information, videos, and links for dozens of indigenous groups in the modern world

Cultural Survival
http://www.culturalsurvival.org/home
Website of an organization committed to indigenous groups and rights, founded by David Maybury-Lewis and other anthropologists; also publishes a magazine by the same name

Survival International
http://www.survival-international.org/
“Survival is the only international organization supporting tribal peoples worldwide. We were founded in 1969 after an article by Norman Lewis in the UK’s Sunday Times highlighted the massacres, land thefts and genocide taking place in Brazilian Amazonia. Like many modern atrocities, the racist oppression of Brazil's Indians took place in the name of ‘economic growth.’”