Research Paper on:
First Nations Web Sites Goals and Concerns

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idea of keeping some indigenous cultures free from outside influences. Originally the idea of indigenous peoples changing their lives to accommodate the new technologies caused a great deal of trepidation  among anthropologists and native leaders, but now technology is a part of the everyday lives of native peoples, members within the First Nations are determining how best to represent themselves  using Internet sites and how to differentiate their ideals from other international cultural sites. Largely, Native Americans are most interested in using their web sites to address important global, environmental  and social issues which have been restricted and disregarded on larger national sites. Some of the first hurdles that managers of new native Internet sites needed to overcome were the  idea of direct competition with other international and corporate sites which had a larger financial base. In the original formation of setting up their Internet sites, native representatives automatically found  that the "electronic communication systems reinforce traditional hierarchical social structures" in that corporations with more finances could provide more attractive site than many native communities with limited funds (Delgado-P. and  Becker, 1998, p. 23). This being said, how would they attract viewers to their site and how could they keep the content relevant to their mission? In addition to the  economic differences which existed within the realm of the development of the web site, indigenous communities were also aware that because of limited funding many of the people within native  communities would not be able to afford the computer equipment necessary to access the sites being developed (Delgado-P. and Becker, 1998). In an initial comparison of two national sites: the  web site of the NGC: National Geographic Society (http://www.nationalgeographic.com/); and the web site of the NAE: Native Americans and the Environment on the NCSE: National Council for Science and the