Archeao Art Media - James Q Jacobs maintains the finest site on the internet for information on Indian Rock Art.

Southwest Indian Relief Council - provides program services that benefit Native Americans throughout the Southwest. Many articles on the Southwest Indians.

Native Web - Resources for Indigenous Cultures around the World.

One of Many Feathers - A large Community bulletin board covering many Native American Topics.

Native American Languages - the site is a compendium of online materials about more than 800 indigenous languages of the Western Hemisphere. Many of the languages are being worked on, but there is still a lot of information and useful links.  

American Indian Library Home Pages  - Wide variety of information on Native Americans.

Academic Information - Native American Studies  – excellent source.

First Nations  – Histories of Native American Tribes of the United States and Canada.

This Week in Indian History

Trade Bead Internet Sites:

Bead Bugle - This highly innovative medium aims to bring together various levels of novice and professional bead enthusiasts -- artists, collectors, designers, importers, suppliers, users, and other interested persons, and serve as a mechanism for dissemination of news, ideas, and information on beads.

Bead Research Center  - Study of all beads with an emphasis on the people involved.

Native American Beadwork - Large Bibliography of Native American Beadwork. Mindy Callaway, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Texas at Austin.

Internet Educational Sites:

Teacher Oz's Kingdom of History - This is a large site with a vast amount of early American and Colonial history.

PBS - The West - Articles from the resources and archives of  the Public Broadcast.

Museum of the Mountain Man – Pinedale, Wyoming.

Museum of the Fur Trade – Chadron, Nebraska.

Women of the West - Short stories on the women of the west. 

Spanish Mustangs  - Organized in 1957, Spanish Mustang  breeders, are working to preserve these special horses.

Books and Magazines:

Project Gutenberg – Source of e-books that were written prior to 1923.

Carl Roters - The Rendezvous Murals at Jackson Lake Lodge in Grand Teton National Park are based on sketches from the 1837 rendezvous by Alfred Jacob Miller.

Carl Roters and the Rendezvous Murals is a recently published book by David and Susan Burwen on the artist, the murals, and the history of the mountain man rendezvous.

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Winds of Change, sequel to Mountains of Stone, will be published this summer. All of the people that purchased Mountains of Stone (except the dead beats) will be notified by email when Winds of Change is available. For those that ordered Mountains of Stone, the price for Winds of Change will be the same. For those on the Mountains of Stone list, it will not hurt to fill out the Winds of Change order form in case there is an email foul up. To view chapter headings click on Winds of Change.

Winds of Change is concerned with the early effects of westward expansion on the Northwest and Plains Indians. The time frame for Winds of Change is 1810 to 1813. My plan was for Winds of Change to go through the rendezvous system, but there was just too much interesting history associated with Tecumseh and the Northwest Indian Wars, Mountain Man-Indian Fur Trade, Factory Trading System, Astorians, and Western Expansion across the Mississippi River.

Chapter Headings

The Piegan
Fort Raymond
War Rumbles
Osage Post
Tecumseh
General William Clark
St. Louis
The Spanish
Comanche
Cheyenne
Winds of Change
Indian Horse
 Astorians
South Pass
Bibliography
Addendum

An addendum was added to Winds of Change that covers a collection of short historical facts related to the Rocky Mountain and Canadian fur trade and the Oregon and Mormon migrations. At the close of the Rocky Mountain Man Rendezvous in 1840, the first settler family traveled the Oregon Trail--western expansion had begin. Within the next ten to fifteen years, over five hundred thousand people migrated to Oregon, Utah, and California.

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Citation: Eddins, Ned. (Name of Article). Thefurtrapper.com. Afton, Wyoming. 2003.