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Government Organizations

* Bureau of Indian Affairs
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is the Federal agency with primary responsibility for working with Indian tribal governments and Alaska Native village communities. Other Federal agencies may deal with Indians or Alaska Natives as members of an ethnic group or simply as individuals, but the BIA is distinctive in that it deals with them as governments - in a government-to-government relationship.

* American Indians: A Select Catalog of NARA Microfilm Publications
This select catalog lists the records published on microfilm by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) that relate directly to American Indians, to the formation of federal Indian policy, and to the personnel who created or enforced that policy.

* Department of Education
A list of documents from the U.S. Department of Education pertaining to Indian education.

* Indian Health Service
The Indian Health Service (IHS), an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, is responsible for providing federal health services to American Indians and Alaska Natives.

* Library of Congress
Information on Native American resources on the Library of Congress pages.

* National Agricultural Library's Native American Resource Page
The National Agricultural Library's Rural Information Center page on Native American Resources. Contains two good bibliographies on Native American health care and natural resources.

* National Archives and Records Administration List of Record Groups
A compilation of statistical and other information relating to Federal records in the National Archives of the United States and in Presidential Libraries. Look under "Indian."

* National Indian Policy Center

* Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians
Agency created to handle the management of Indian trust funds and to solve the problem of the previous mismanagement of these funds.


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