Curated OER
Eagle Boy: A Pacific Northwest Native Tale
Students read the story of the Eagle Boy. In this Native American Tale instructional activity, students discover the respect a boy has for wildlife. Students discuss eagles and what they symbolize. Students create song lyrics for...
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Other
Mises Institute: The Last Indian War [Pdf]
This passionate essay provides an informative history of the battles between Northwest Indians and the US in the 1960s over fishing rights and broken treaties.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: About Indian Boarding Schools
Several articles and essays about the federal government's attempt to assimilate Native American children into the dominant American society in the late 1800s through the establishment and use of Indian schools.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Explorers: Native American Cultures
Using on-the-scene field reports, photographs, and interviews, visitors join archaeological teams to learn about modern-day Native American fishers of salmon on the Skagit River in Washington, about 2,000-year-old Native American rock...
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New Haven Unified School District: Peoples of the Northwest
Learn about the Kwakiutl, Native Americans of the Northwest culture region. Richly illustrated, this school-sponsored site emphasizes the link between Native traditions and the natural resources of the region.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Northwest Coast American Indian Bibliography
The National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian presents an extensive annotated bibliography of works on Native Americans for grades K-12.
Curated OER
National Park Service: Coast Salish the First Inhabitants
This National Park Service site gives a good general overview of the Coast Salish people- their environment and their life-style.
Harvard University
Peabody Museum: Feeding the Ancestors
A fascinating description of the carved spoons used by the Tlingit Indians for ceremonial purposes. The meanings carved into the spoons were read from the bowl of the spoon to the tip of the handle.
History Link
History Link: Smallpox Epidemic Ravages Native Americans
HistoryLink, the Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History, discusses the outbreak of smallpox in North America among the Native Americans of the Northwest coast in the 1770s.
Curated OER
Perry Castaneda Map Collection: Map of Early Indian Tribes in the Western u.s.
Map showing the Native American culture areas and the tribes within those cultures in western North America. From the Perry Castaneda collection.