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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Buffalo Tales: The Near Extermination of the American Bison

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the National Humanties Center provides pictures and and offers discussion questions in considering the near-extermination of the American Bison in the late 1800s. Very interesting and informative.
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Curated OER

National Park Service: Ellis Island: Oyster Island

For Students 9th - 10th
Before Ellis Island was an immigrant processing center, it was visited by Algonquin peoples to harvest the oyster beds, hence the name 'Oyster Island' which was given to it by the Dutch. Two other islands in the same area were also...