網站由一個非營利組織所架設，成立目的即是藉著網路科技的使用來保存及促進美洲印地安語言。經由網站可接觸到西半球800種以上使用中的原住民語言資料。現在線上有超過150種的北美印地安語言資料，仍在持續增加中南美的部分。此外，網站亦提供與原住民生活與文化各個面向相關的連結。該網站相當強調美洲印地安文化的現在進行式，同樣關注現代作家、現代藝術與當代議題，將其重要性與傳統傳說、博物館文物等並列。

Our website is not beautiful. But this site has inner beauty, for it is, or will be, a compendium of online materials about more than 800 indigenous languages of the Western Hemisphere and the native people that speak them.
We currently have online language materials for more than 150 Indian nations of North America, and are adding more information on the native languages of Central and South America as well. In addition to this language information, we have carefully collected and organized links to many different aspects of native life and culture, with an emphasis on American Indians as a living people with a present tense. American Indian history is interesting and important, but Indians are still here today, too, and we have tried to feature modern writers as well as traditional legends, contemporary art as well as museum pieces, and the issues and struggles of today as well as the tragedies of yesterday. Suggestions for new links are always welcome.