Federal Websites For and About American Indians
This is a guide to federal agency websites that feature information for or about Native Americans.
To locate tribal websites, visit our Tribal Websites Page.
Agriculture
U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Office of Native American Programs
News, events, tribal consultations - Advisory Board for Native American Farmers and Ranchers
About the Board - Council for Native American Farming and Ranching
Current Members - Council for Native American Farming and Ranching
Minutes
Art, Exhibits, Maps and Photographs
National Museum of the American Indian
Business and Employment
Administration for Native Americans
- Social and Economic Development Strategies
Economic and tribal development resources.
- Native Employment Works
Grants for education, training, and employment.
Education
Administration for Native Americans
- Native Languages
About native languages, links to resources.
Bureau of Indian Affairs / Bureau of Indian Education
- School Report Cards
Reports on BIE and also for each BIE school
- Special Education Report
Performance plans and school indicators
- National Directory of Schools (PDF)
- Colleges and Universities Directory
BIE colleges; also our nation’s accredited Tribal Colleges
Labor Department
- DINAP Partnership (Division of Indian and Native American Programs
Information for WIA Section 166 Indian and Native American grantees.
- Employment Training – Indian and Native American Program
Find programs by zip code, town, or state. Allows for search with 10 to 100+ miles of your choice.
- Native American Employment and Training Council
Advises DOL on Native American programs that the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) authorizes.
Department of Commerce
- Native American Business Enterprise Center
Provides business assistance services to Native American businesses.
Department of Education
- National Advisory Council on Indian Education
Meeting transcripts, annual reports, other reports, current membership.
Indian Health Service
Environment and Wildlife
Administration for Native Americans
- Environmental Regulatory Enhancement
Grants, technical and training assistance.
- Environmental Resources
Links to tribal environmental programs.
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Tribal Energy and Environmental Information Clearinghouse
How to assess and monitor projects and programs, laws.
Federal and Tribal Government
Administration for Native Americans
- Tribal Services
Programs for tribal governments.
Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Office of Federal Acknowledgement
How to become a federally-acknowledged tribe and become eligible for full government funding.
- List of Petitioners by State (PDF)
- Office of Self-Governance (PDF)
How federally-recognized tribes can operate their own governmental services instead of the BIA. Note: you must click the “Office of Self-Governance” link to get to secure website.
Indian Health Service
- Office of Federal Acknowledgement
For tribes that want to operate their own health programs.
Treasury Department
- Community Development Financial Institutions Fund - Native American Initiatives Program
Initiatives designed to overcome barriers to financial services to Native Communities.
Genealogy
Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Guide to Tracing Your American Indian Ancestry (PDF)
10-page how-to guide.
National Archives and Records Administration
- Native American Heritage
Guide to NARA’s holdings about American Indians.
- Dawes Rolls
Final Rolls of the Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory.
Grants and Funding
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Indian Health Service
Health and Human Services
Indian Health Service
- Indian Health Manual
Full text of manual; each chapter in each part is linked with transmittals.
- Employee and Facility Coordinator
Search by First Name or Last Name but not both; search by IHS area for complete list of all staff.
- Primary Care Provider Newsletter
For health professionals who work with American Indians and Alaska Natives.
- Breastfeeding Promotion and Support
Information on breastfeeding, education toolkit.
- Diabetes
Online news, many patient education materials, web-based training, “Quick Guide Cards” that summarize information for patients.
- Elder Care Initiative
- Healthy Weight for Life
Guides for healthy eating, losing weight, Body Mass Indicator (BMI) online tool.
- Height and Weight Measurements
Standards for the growth of infants and children.
- HIV-AIDS
News, prevention guides, data online training, HIV testing promo materials.
- Community Health Representative
Tribes can have a Representative who acts as an advocate between members and the healthcare community.
- Health Promotion, Disease Prevention
Promoting physical activity, eating healthy, and staying away from commercial tobacco.
- Injury Prevention
Includes the National Nutrition Directory, Healthy Beverages Kit.
- Nutrition and Dietetics Training
Information on breastfeeding, education toolkit.
- National Data Warehouse
Data for researchers; must request access.
- Student Grants and Scholarships
- Repayment of Student Loans
- Suicide Prevention
Resources on training; link to data.
Data
- FEHBP Disparity Index
Goal is to raise amount of money IHS spends in our nation to 40% of what’s spent in “Federal Employees Health Plan”. Read Tables 3 and 4, then click on Table 2 to get money spent by area and site.
- Indian Health Performance Evaluation
Ongoing evaluations by IHS staff. See “Case Studies” about progress of programs.
- Trends in Indian Health and Most Recent Regional Differences in Indian Health
Published in 2009, data is for 2002/2003. Datasets, tables, charts.
Quality of Care
- Improve Your Health
Online tool that generates a list of questions patients need to ask their doctors about.
- Performance Measures
There are 24 measures.
- Quality Reports
Click on maps or click links to get reports. Use drilldown to choose reports about different services.
- Urban Indian Health Program
Click Program Websites and Profiles to get state information.
National Institute on Drug Abuse
- American Indian/Alaska Native Coordinating Committee
NIDA staff who focus on improving research into addiction problems of AI/AN people. Links to notes about meetings.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Minority Health Action Plan (PDF)
HHS Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities.
National Network of Libraries of Medicine
- American Indian Health Information Resources
In-person, hands-on workshop about online health resources.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Social Secureity Administration
Highways, Engineering and Energy
- Office of Indian Energy and Economic Development
See Division of Energy and Mineral Development, Division of Indian Energy Policy
- Tribal Energy and Environmental Information Clearinghouse
How to assess and monitor projects and programs, laws.
History
- National Park Service
“Indians In The War”, a special and final issue of “Indians at Work” magazine with the honor list of Native Americans who died in World War 2.
Housing and Land
Department of the Interior
- Land Buyback Program
Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations resulting from the Cobell Settlement. General DOI version of more specific BIA website.
- National Commission on Indian Trust Administration and Reform
About public meetings and webinars, documents and presentations about Indian Land Consolidation Program.
- Bureau of Indian Affairs
Details about the Indian Land Consolidation Program resulting from Cobell Settlement. Contains Land-Sale Application Form, instructions for filing it out, links to Settlement and websites about it.
- Indian Trust Settlement
Elaine Cobell’s website. For how-to information, history of the settlement.
National Park Service
- National NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act)
Indian Land Areas Judicially Established 1978 Map Index. Click on pdf for map.
- American Indian Liaison Office
Works with tribes on NPS park issues.
- Indian Land Cessions in the United States, 1784 – 1894
Contains the schedule of treaties and Acts of Congress authorizing land allotments and a schedule of Indian land cessions both through 1894. Note: Serial Set #4015.
Military
National Museum of the American Indian
- Native Words, Native Warriors
About the code talkers of World War 1 and 2. Includes information on boarding schools.
Reference Tools
- American Indian Materials in Oklahoma’s Federal Depository Libraries (PDF)
- Annotated Paper of Native American History from United States Federal Documents Print and Online Sources by Brandon Burnette, Southeastern Oklahoma State University (PDF)
- Buy Back Program of the Cobell Settlement (PDF)
- Indian Claims Commissions Decisions, Volumes 1 through 43, with Index
- Oklahoma’s Tribal Government Websites: History and Culture
- Tulsa City-County Library – American Indian Resource Center
Taxes
Internal Revenue Service
To locate tribal websites, visit our Tribal Websites Page.