Census 2000 is fast approaching and the Indiana State Data Center in the Indiana State Library is anticipating a flood of new statistics and data products. The Data Center cooperates with the Census Bureau in a program that makes census data available to the public through a network of state agencies, libraries, and universities. The Data Center also helps promote access to Census Bureau data through print and electronic formats such as value added data products, CD-ROMs, and Internet sites. Following this article is a list of some recent Census Bureau Products available to the public. Also listed are some short videos that are available from the Data Center to libraries or other community agencies who wish to inform the public about Census 2000 and other surveys, or establish partnership efforts with the Census Bureau.
More than 100 years ago, on June 7, 1902, a report was submitted to the United States Congress to reimburse the claimant for conducting an expedition from Fort Sheridan in 1877 to return a group of American Indians, under the leadership of Chief Crazy Horse, to their reservations. This is only one small example of the ways in which American Indians are documented in federal publications.