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Ethnography and Folklore
	Title	American Indian Tribes of the Southwest
	Description	This site, hosted by the American Indian Institute at Arizona State University, provides a list of most of the American Indian tribes in the Southwest, including links to official tribal websites for many Southwestern tribal communities. Some links, however, lead not to official tribal websites, but to other (official) organizations, such as the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque; other tribes have no links at all. This page is updated infrequently, so be sure to check the "last modified" date.
	Language	English
	Resource Type	Academic program
	Link	http://www.asu.edu/aii/resources/tribes/southwest.htm
	Title	Defining the Southwest
	Description	"Defining the Southwest" is a project originally developed as a component of a library web exhibit at the University of Arizona. The site is multidisciplinary, with contributions from University faculty in Southwest literature, folklore, anthropology, archaeology, architecture and linguistics. It attempts to "gather multiple visions of what the Southwest might entail." The site's pages include links to historical maps, bibliographies, and digital images. It also offers links and access to student web projects. This page is a good general resource.
	Language	English
	Resource Type	Library
	Link	http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/definingsw/
	Title	El Instituto Linguistico de Verano en Mexico/The Summer Institute of Linguistics in Mexico
	Description	"The Summer Institute of Linguistics in Mexico" provides "information on the indigenous languages and cultures of present-day Mexico." The site offers electronic dictionaries and vocabularies for several indigenous languages in the Greater Southwest including those in the Nahuatl, Serian, and Taracahitic families. The site also provides geographic and historical information on individual families and stocks including Uto-Aztecan and Hokan. Other useful materials available on this site include grammatical, orthographic, and ethnographic notes, in addition to bibliographic aids. The site provides both Spanish and English text in its pages.
	Language	English, Spanish
	Resource Type	Nonprofit organization
	Link	http://www.sil.org/mexico
	Title	Ethnologue
	Description	The Ethnologue is an online encyclopedia of languages around the world. Each entry provides the language name, its alternate names, number of speakers, location, dialects, and linguistic affiliation, as well as other information if it is available. Though not specific to the Southwest, numerous Southwest-related entries are included.
	Language	English
	Resource Type	Database
	Link	http://www.ethnologue.com//web.asp
	Title	Hopi Tribe Cultural Preservation Office
	Description	The "Official Hopi Tribe Cultural Preservation Office Home Page" provides information to "scholars as well as the general public." The pages found at this site provide general information about Hopi agriculture and traditional knowledge, additional references and recommended readings, HCPO policy and protocol for research, as well as information on current issues and projects in the Hopi community. Current Issues pages include a chronology of the Navajo-Hopi land issue from 1700 to March 1997, and information on Intellectual Property Rights and NAGRPA as related to the Hopi Tribe. The site also provides useful links such as the Cline Library Photo Collection, Southwest Archaeology Page, and the National Park Service-Alcatraz Island. As of this writing, the site had not been updated since 2001 and several of the offsite links no longer worked. However, it is still a rich resource for information about the Hopi.
	Language	English
	Resource Type	Official tribal web site
	Link	http://www.nau.edu/hcpo/index.html
	Title	Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia
	Description	This is the web site for INAH, or the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History. The bureau supervises over 110 historical monuments, 29 thousand archaeological zones, and over a hundred historical museums within the national territory; links to information about all of these resources is available from both the English and the Spanish versions of the web site. In addition, there is a narrative "forward" to the site that provides background information about the organization and about anthropology and archaeology in Mexico. INAH has also integrated documentary cultural resources including the Anthropology and History Library, the National System of Photo Archives, the Sound Library "devoted to the recording and preservation of musical tradition testimonies" and the Film Library. INAH Home is a bilingual Spanish-English site, offering English translations for many of the pages. However, at this time, several of the pages remain Spanish-only. Although not specific to the Southwest, the site is a critical resource for those with an interest in anthropological and archaeological study.
	Language	English, Spanish
	Resource Type	State/federal agency
	Link	http://www.inah.gob.mx/
	Title	Music of the Southwest
	Description	The "Music of the Southwest" web site provides video and audio clips of different music styles of the Southwest, along with narrative descriptions. Clips are organized by instrument (accordion, fiddle/violin), by ethnic group, and by musical style. Hosted by the University of Arizona and maintained by the Learning Technologies Center, this site was created by a number of volunteers. It is a great educational resource for anyone interested in musical traditions of the region.
	Language	English
	Resource Type	Academic program, Online exhibit
	Link	http://www.elearn.arizona.edu/msw/
	Title	Native American Ethnobotany Database
	Description	The Native American Ethnobotany Database, provided by the University of Michigan-Dearborn, is an online searchable database of foods, drugs, dyes and fibers of Native American peoples, derived from plants. Searching the database provides the scientific name, groups who used the plant and how they used it, and relevant references. Though not specific to the Southwest, many plants used by Southwestern tribal groups are included in the database.
	Language	English
	Resource Type	Database
	Link	http://herb.umd.umich.edu/
	Title	Native Languages of Arizona
	Description	The "Native Languages of Arizona" is the online version of an exhibit installed at the Arizona State Museum. The online exhibit provides a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation featuring audio clips of Navajo (Diné) and O'odham; also included are dialogue-based lessons in Navajo and O'odham. The project is sponsored by the University of Arizona Department of Linguistics, the Arizona State Museum, the University of Arizona Critical Languages Program, and the Mary Alice Sherry Helm Scholarship.
	Language	English, Navajo/Diné, O'odham
	Resource Type	Online exhibit
	Link	http://cali.arizona.edu/asm/
	Title	Overview of Traditional Cultural Places in Pima County
	Description	This May 2000 study brings special focus to the topic of Traditional Cultural Places. The first part of the publication includes an "Overview of Traditional Cultural Places in Pima County," drafted by Rebecca Toupal and Stephanie Whittlesey of Statistical Research Inc (SRI). Jim McDonald of the Coronado National Forest contributed the second half of the study, entitled "Overview of Traditional Cultural Uses and Traditional Cultural Places in Pima County and the Coronado National Forest." In 1993 the National Register Bulletin gave this guidance: Traditional Cultural Places are "eligible for inclusion in the National Register because of their association with cultural practices or beliefs of a living community that are rooted in the community's history and are important in maintaining the continuing cultural identity of the community" (SRI at 1). These areas might be Traditional Cultural Places: archaeological sites, dance ground sites, ceremonial sites, agricultural fields, caves, peaks, waterways, petroglyphs, and trails; Only a'small number of such sites are listed in the National Register, yet the potential for their existence in Pima County is high. Factors such as lack of knowledge of sites and cultural differences in viewing the potential for such sites contribute to the low rate of preservation. This resource is in PDF format.
	Language	English
	Resource Type	Report
	Link	http://www.pima.gov/cmo/sdcp/reports/d2/007OVE.PDF
	Title	Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
	Description	The Peabody Museum is located at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. It is one of the oldest museums in the country dedicated to anthropology. The website has several unique features including the ability to search through the museum's collections by maker, object type, location, Peabody id number or keyword. Other special features include Exhibits On-Line, Peabody Profiles and Special Projects.
	Language	English
	Resource Type	Museum
	Link	http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/default.html
	Title	Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
	Description	The Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology's is part of the University of California at Berkeley. Phoebe Hearst was known for her patronage of Southwest archaeology, and the collections of the museum reflect this. Hearst first became a patron in 1896, when she was responsible for purchasing a large archaeological collection from the area surrounding Mesa Verde. The web site provides the history of Mrs. Hearst, and her patronage, as well as informational links to related subjects. Most of the information about the Southwest is focused on the "Cliff Dwellers" of Mesa Verde, Colorado. In addition, a list of the collections housed by the museum with general descriptions of their contents is available in the "Collections" section.
	Language	English
	Resource Type	Museum
	Link	http://hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu
	Title	Spanish Borderlands listserv
	Description	The Spanish Borderlands listserv, hosted by ASU, is an email-based discussion list for topics pertaining to the Spanish Borderlands. This site provides searchable archives back to 1995; users can also join or leave the list from this site.
	Language	English
	Resource Type	Message board/online meeting
	Link	http://lists.asu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=spanbord&D=0&H=0&O=D&T=0
	Title	Storyscape Project
	Description	The "Storyscape Project" page provides information about the project dedicated to working with indigenous communities in order to "protect, restore, and revitalize endangered story, song, language, and lands through current ethnographic recordings" as well as the "restoration and repatriation of historical audio recordings." This site discusses indigenous oral histories and language restoration in the Southwest; in particular, it describes the Salt Song Storyscape Project, the Western Shoshone Project, and the Indigenous Languages Restoration Project (ILRP) utilizing the collected recordings of the Southwestern amateur ethnographer Guy Tyler.
	Language	English
	Resource Type	Research project
	Link	http://nativeland.org/story_scape.html
	Title	The Hopi Tribe
	Description	This website is the official site for the Hopi Tribe, and is an excellent source for a information about Hopi oral history, language, ceremonies, clans, and tradition. This site also provides information for people interested in visiting the Hopi Reservation, and information about the tribal government. Tribal department contact information is also available, providing employment information and current Tribal information including demographics. Of particular interest to Southwest researchers is the information page for the Cultural Preservation Office, which contains a printable version of the Research Protocol for research at Hopi. This site is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in Hopiland.
	Language	English
	Resource Type	Official tribal web site
	Link	http://www.hopi.nsn.us/
	Title	The Southwest Center - University of Arizona
	Description	The Southwest Center web site provides a description of this research facility, along with information about current research projects, publications, and associated researchers. A handful of links to other southwest studies web sites are available.
	Language	English
	Resource Type	Academic program
	Link	http://web.arizona.edu/~swctr/
	Title	Web del Estado Sonora/State of Sonora Web
	Description	"State of Sonora Web" provides an introduction to the history and culture of the state. The site's pages include photographs, information on individual cities and towns, descriptions of regional cuisine, an introduction to indigenous languages in Sonora, and a cultural gallery featuring poems and verses by Sonoran writers and images of Sonoran art. Page titles are presented in Spanish but, since the site is designed to be tourist friendly, many of the pages offer English text. The site provides a good introduction to areas of historical and cultural interest in the state with links to several of the cities' official web sites.
	Language	English, Spanish
	Resource Type	State/federal agency
	Link	http://www.fisica.uson.mx/Sonora/
	Title	Words & Place: Native Literature from the American Southwest
	Description	"Words and Place" provides online access to videos about Native American Southwestern songs and stories. Each program presents one American Indian singer, storyteller or author performing from his/her repertoire in a natural setting in the community. These videos were created for instructional use and have been used in classrooms around the country. The videotapes were produced at the University of Arizona in cooperation with KUAT-TV and funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
	Language	English, Navajo/Diné, Hopi, Keresan, Apache, Yaqui
	Resource Type	Online exhibit, Academic program
	Link	http://wordsandplace.arizona.edu/