MYTHING LINKS

by
Kathleen Jenks, Ph.D.

This is Glenn Welker's wide-ranging website on "Indigenous Peoples' Literature"; it focuses specifically on
creation/origin/migration narratives from North and Meso America. Welker has close to 60 rich, profound, troubling, beautiful, sometimes violent, always thought-provoking sacred stories here.

Creation Myths & Sacred Narratives of Creation

Key Resource

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Once again,
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Links2Go Awards

Blue Thumbs Award

Dear Glenn Welker,

Congratulations on being a featured site
in this week's article at Travel Notes.

Travel Notes� is a Guide to Travel on the WWW.
We do the searching for our readers, and those new
to the Internet to save them time!

As the Managing Editor at Travel Notes,
I have recommended that our readers
visit your excellent Web Site;
feel free to read the article:

Discovery of America?

Best wishes to you and your site.
I know the effort, time and dedication
it takes to be among the best.

All the best,

Michel Guntern
Managing Editor
Travel Notes�

Hi there!

For Outstanding Work and Awesome Contribution in the categories of
History, Culture, Native and Ancient Studies, Literature, Music and Art

In recognition of your outstanding work in presenting the Indigenous Peoples' Literature Website, and your awesome contribution to the World Wide Web in the categories of history, culture, native and ancient studies, literature, music and art, Eliki is pleased to honor you with the Eliki Award.

Hotep (peace),

CONGRATS!!

Your site has been chosen by Lords of the Perfect Black
as one of Chocolate City's Best Site Award winners!

Your internet site appears on our Chocolate City home page.

Swiss Chronicles (in French)

Hello,

I write chronicles for a Swiss magazine about the Internet called
"Slash". I am currently writing a chronicle about your site and I'm
asking you if I may make a screen capture of your site, to be
published in "Slash".

Olivier Glassey

"This site has been designed to bring all information about the natives of North America. It contains information about Apache, Cheyenne, Comanche, Iroquois, Wichitas, etc.). It was so successful that sections have been added for other the indigenous peoples of the five continents (descendants of Mayas and the Incas in South America, Maoris in New Zealand, Aborines of Australia, etc.). This server contains extraordinary information about indigenous languages, traditions, myths and chiefs
(Geronimo, Cochise, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, etc.). "

NATIVE AMERICANS

"Ce site a été conçu pour regrouper toutes
les informations concernant les indigènes du contient nord-américain
(Apaches, Cheyennes, Comanches, Iroquois, Wichitas, etc.). Il a connu un
tel succès que des sections ont été ajoutées
pour d'autres peuples indigènes des 5 continents (descendants des
Mayas et des Incas en Amérique Latine, Maoris en Nouvelle-Zélande,
Aborigènes en Australie, etc.). Ce serveur contient une quantité
extraordinaire d'informations sur les langues indigènes, les traditions,
les mythes et les grands chefs
(Geronimo, Cochise, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, etc.)."

German Review

Native literature and famous writings

"This compilation by Glenn Welker's electronic text collection is an excellent, comprehensive compilation of over 800 complete texts on the following topics: Columbus-1492, famous documents and quotes, great chiefs and group leaders, texts about different nations, "Mother Earth Prayers", music, poetry, narrations and Native literature and well-known writers. "

Native Literatur und bekannter Schriftseller

"Die von Glenn Welker zusammengestellte elektronische Textsammlung
ist eine hervorragende, umfassende Zusammenstellung von ueber 800 vollstaendigen
Texten zu den folgenden Themen: Kolumbus-1492, beruehmte Dokumente und Zitate,
grosse Haeuptlinge und Anfuehrer, Texte zu den verschiedenen Nationen,
"Mother Earth Prayers", Musik, Dichtung, Erzaehlungen sowie Texte
nuer Native Literatur und bekannter Schriftsteller."

Shendene (Ulysse) - Italy

Dear Sir:

Shendene is an Italian publishing company which operates in
the field of electronic publishing. At the moment we are issuing a new
CD-ROM which aims to provide the public with a better and more thorough
understanding of what is currently available on the Internet.

On the basis of research carried out on our behalf as to the
potential "universal target" of Internet, we realized that this new medium
is still used by very few people: even fewer are those who are actually
able to surf for specific goals or sites or with a clear knowledge of the
Net's full potential. Moreover, it must be added that navigating often
can prove difficult because of other well known factors such as slowness
in data transfer.

Our aim is to list by topic the BEST SITES CURRENTLY FOUND ON THE NET.

Le popolazioni "native messicane"

Each month we will reproduce IN FULL the top 100 sites for the
monthly topic, clearly indicating with special graphics those which are
most highly rated.

The main objective of our new publication is to provide an innovative
tool aimed at promoting the Internet and, in particular, the best sites
to be found. It mainly targets those who still have not started surfing
the Web or the first-timers ("newbies") who still find browsing difficult
and confusing.

This July's issue is on the theme of "MEXICO". We would be delighted
if we could include your own excellent site, in its latest update of June 15th.

Best regards,

Gianni Manfredini

Publisher

Ulysse - Messico

Witness to the Future

Dear Friend,

I am writing to tell you that your Web site has been linked to the
environmental activist CD-ROM Witness to the Future.

Witness to the Future, to be released in early March by the leading
multimedia publisher The Voyager Company, includes a documentary on the
transformation of citizens into environmental activists, in addition to the
first electronic publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and over 500
content-based links to the World Wide Web.

We did an in-depth search to find Web sites like yours that
contribute valuable information about issues concerning the environment.
Since Witness to the Future enables the user to access related Internet sites
right from the disc, we provide an update function designed to keep the links current.

We hope you will find that our project complements your own efforts.

Please visit our Web site:

Witness to the Future

to learn more about Witness to the Future and publicize your
own activities with our "Add Your Own Voice" form.

Excerpt:

"I think the hardest thing, I think for our people to really face is what
this is doing to Mother Earth. What it is doing to the land, because she's a
living person."

Pauline Echo-Hawk

Palouse-Wanapum

Tribe Parker, WA

"You can imagine before the landing of Columbus, there was Nirvana
here. There was a time when all air was clean, all waters were clean.
The future will see that the integral damage to the environment which
has been done here to our forests, to our range, is going to be an
everlasting damage upon all of society, all of the world. . ."

"What affects you affects me."

Yakama Indian Nation

Toppenish, WA

By connecting ourselves globally across the Internet we can unite to
encourage dialog and to inform citizens of the many issues that face us
all. Join us in a chorus of voices calling for environmental change!

Yours,

Brenda Miller

Author, Witness to the Future

Professor of Electronic Arts
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, New York

Alternative Healing Methods

Hi, my name is Phyl Desy, and I am the Guide for the

"Alternative Healing Methods" site on the Mining Company.

The Mining Company is a brand new resource on the web dedicated
to making the best and most informative web sites easily accessible to
everyone. We offer weekly features with our own personal touch. Each guide
offers her/his Net Finds of the week, The Best of the Web, and an evergrowing
Resource Page.

I am pleased to inform you that I have linked your web site to my
Healing site! I feel your site deserves recognition for your excellent work.

Please drop in and visit from time to time!

Good Health,

Phyl

Healing Guide

The Spiritual Internet

Dear Mr. Welker:

We are planning to include a 'screen-shot' of the WWW site:

Indigenous People's Literature

The 'screen-shot' will include all of the text and graphics of the
entire page of the website listed above, or a portion thereof.

Thank you for your fine efforts.

Sincerely yours,

Nickolas Grabovac

Jain Publishing Company, Inc.
P.O. Box 3523
Fremont, CA 94539
Tel: 510-659-8272
Fax: 510-659-0501

Publication Date for The Spiritual Internet: August 1998

Bluecat Award

Bluecat has selected your site for the Bluecat Award

as one of the finest sites on the Web.

To learn more about Bluecat, visit us at:

The Bluecat Site

Contact: Jerry

Stopped by your site ---

Terrific pages. Charming and delightful all around.
An eyeful for anyone stopping by. Great Design.
Great contribution to the World Wide Web.

I am much impressed. I am awarding your site the Buzz Award.



My good fortune to find you.
Ernest Slyman