Native Peoples Magazine. Native Web Site Evaluation. Updated 25 July 2000.
The World Wide Web as part of the Internet reflects United States culture. One can find almost anything on the Web that one can find offline in the "real" world. American Indian peoples live in the real world, and Web sites by and about Indian peoples live on the Web. Just as Indians are sometimes treated fairly in the real world, the Web contains sites that show Indians in respectful ways with accurate information, quality products to sell, and as whole human beings with real lives. Just as Indian peoples are sometimes treated wrongly in the real world, the Web also contains sites that use inaccurate and damaging "information", and portray Native peoples as either less or more than human, or as products to be exploited and sold in some fashion (especially Native spirituality).