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Medicine Wheels and Animal Totems

American Indian History Resources


Books & Images

Search the Hartness Catalog to find and order books.

Try: keyword phrase medicine wheel$

Subject heading Indians of North America - Medicine.

Try some of the image searches, for example Altavista Image Search


Articles

Search InfoTrac or Academic Search Premier

Try using the keyword phrase Medicine wheel*


Websites

Recommended websites on American Indian History

Native Web http://www.nativeweb.org

Native American Virtual Library http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/

Native American History Archive http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/k12/naha

Native American Gateway http://www.kstrom.net/isk/

Native American History & Culture (Smithsonian) http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmai/start.htm

Health Care to Native Americans http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/if_you_knew/if_you_knew_04.html

Native American History is American History http://hoffmanshome.com/native/

Native American Religion in Early America

http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/tserve/eighteen/ekeyinfo/natrel.htm

American Indian History & Related Issues http://www.csulb.edu/projects/ais/

The American West: Native Americans http://www.americanwest.com/pages/indians.htm

WWW Virtual Library: Before the Europeans http://www.ukans.edu/history/VL/USA/ERAS/prediscovery.html

Bureau of Indian Affairs http://www.doi.gov/bureau-indian-affairs.html

Fourth world documentation project www.cwis.org

NativeWeb www.nativeweb.org

Circumpolar and aboriginal resources

natsiq.nunanet.com/~nic/WWWVL-ANA.html


Websites on Animal Totems and Medicine Wheel (relevant but not necessarily recommended)

Animal spirit guides and totems http://www.manataka.org/page291.html

Royal Alberta Museum – What is a Medicine Wheel? http://www.royalalbertamuseum.ca/human/archaeo/faq/medwhls.htm

Medicine Wheel National Historic Landmark http://wyoshpo.state.wy.us/medwheel.htm

Art as a Healing Force http://www.artashealing.org/ahfwmw.htm

Kanai Middle School - Medicine Wheel project http://www.kainaimiddleschool.ca/Science_Projects/MedicineWheel/medicinewheel.html

Native American Indian Sacred Hoop Visionquest http://www.spiritsongs.org/Native_American_Indian_Sacred_Hoop_Visionquest_Medicine_Wheels_and_Four_Directions.htm

The Healing Trail http://www.diabeteshealingtrail.ca/traditionalhealing.html


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