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Web Site Review
| NativeWeb <http://www.nativeweb.org>. Created and maintained by NativeWeb. Reviewed June 20, 2003.
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| NativeWeb is an "international, nonprofit, educational organization." It began in 1994 as a part of the NativeNet project and a year later became an independent organization. The result of an effort by a few scholars and activists, its goal is to use technology to bring information to indigenous peoples, to assist and increase communications between native and nonnative groups, and to help indigenous people use and benefit from the Internet. At present most of the content focuses on issues in the United States and Canada. |
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The site may be characterized in at least two ways. First, it represents an effort to create links between and among indigenous peoples throughout the world. Thus far it is not clear that the site operators have achieved this goal. It serves more as a community Web center, with news, notices of jobs, events, and local self-help resources, than as an international rallying service. It also serves as a gateway to related sites. For example, the history category includes Australia and New Zealand as one of the world areas. Within it one can access legal and historical materials offered by the National Library of Australia, items rarely available to American scholars, much less to students. |
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