Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Interactions Between American Indians and Europeans Pueblo Uprising of 1680
An overview of the Pueblo people in the Southwest who rose up against Spanish religious persecution and violence in 1680.
Indiana University
Iu: Literature as Lessons on the Diversity of Culture
Very scholarly article that looks at the role literature helps teach us about the diversity of our culture. The author looks at various aspects of literature and then gives teacher resources and a helpful bibliography.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Whose Land Is This? Conflict Between Native Americans & Settlers [Pdf]
A lesson plan from the producers of the 16-episode PBS series "Freedom: A History of US" designed to provide insights into the causes of the conflict between Native Americans and new settlers pushing west. Students will examine official...
SMART Technologies
Smart: Native American Unit
This lesson activity introduces to the students the diversity that exists among Native Americans. It provides a map of the tribes in the United States, the tribes in various sections of the US and information about the cultures of these...
Other
Us Internet: Mischecanocquah/meshekinoquah (Little Turtle)
This article begins with brief biographical data, but most of it is an address Little Turtle made to President Thomas Jefferson and Henry Dearborn regarding the American government's failure to live up to the conditions of the Treaty of...
Other
Early Cultures: Pre European Peoples of Wisconsin
An archaeologist's study of Western Wisconsin, this site helps us understand the early people living in Wisconsin 12,000 years ago.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Identity During the American Revolution
From a chapter on "America's War for Independence," this section of the chapter explains Loyalist and Patriot sentiments and identifies different groups that participated in the Revolutionary War.
Other
Hangout Nj: Assignment New Jersey: Delaware Indians
This is a site custom-designed for students with information needs about New Jersey. You can check out the famous firsts that happened in New Jersey, or read about history, find out about explorers, as well as other topics.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Others Demand Equality
Many other groups learned how to push for their civil rights from African Americans' civil rights movement. Read about the Mexican Americans, Native Americans, and gays as they worked to achieve equal treatment under the law.
University of Washington
Northwest Imagery: The Photography of Edward and Asahel Curtis
Edward and Asahel Curtis provide wonderful insight into Washington State in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Edward provides us his perceived traditions of North American Indians and Asahel photographed Washington's natural resources...
Other
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.
Curated OER
National Park Service: Trail of Tears and Forced Relocation of Cherokee
This Teaching With Historic Places unit, designed for young scholars in grades 5-12 is about the conflict between American settlers and the Cherokee Nation. Students will outline events leading up to the forced relocation of the Cherokee...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Manifest Destiny
This Khan Academy resource provides notes for American History. "Manifest Destiny" is explained on this resource, along with the implications associated with expansion of the North American continent.
The History Cat
The History Cat: Carlisle Indian School
Explains how Indian boarding schools came to be established, often with good intentions initially, and how native students were expected to dress and behave like white people, and were even punished for using their native language or...
Country Studies US
Country Studies: The Plight of the Indians
This site explains how as westward expansion grew, more and more Indians encountered settlers, ranchers and miners who sought life, land, and riches out West. Conflicts between settlers and Indians soon involved the federal government...
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: The Trail of Tears: The Indian Removals
The Cherokee were not the only Native Americans affected by the Indian Removal Policy. Read about the Sac and Fox Indians in Illinois, and the Seminole in Florida. In addition, read about the many attempts, including a law suit filed by...
Other
County of El Dorado: A Peaceful People Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians
Get the basic history of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Freedom: A History of Us: Liberty for All? Webisode 3
Webisode 3 - Liberty for All? The history of the United States is presented in a series of webisodes, within each are a number of segments.Included are links to lesson plans, teacher guides, resources, activities, and tools.
The History Cat
The History Cat: Life on an Indian Reservation
Summarizes the experiences of native peoples who were sent to live on reservations as settlers moved onto their homelands, and their distrust towards the white people who cheated them and ignored the negotiated treaties.
The History Cat
The History Cat: Us History: The Buffalo Soldiers
Describes the history of the Buffalo Soldiers, African Americans who served in four Calvary peacetime units in the 19th and 20th centuries. Highlights the experiences of Emanuel Stance, a freed slave who joined the military in 1866.
OpenStax
Open Stax: The Impact of Colonization
By reading this section of a chapter on "Colonial Societies," students will be able to explain the reasons for the rise of slavery in the American colonies, describe changes in Indian life, including warfare and hunting, contrast...
Curated OER
U.s. Department of the Interior: Southern Plains Indian Museum, Anadarko, Oklahoma
This resource provides a listing of featured artists, including examples of their work and a short biography.
Other
Illinois State Museum: At Home in the Heartland Online
Exhibit about family life in Illinois from 1700 to the present lets visitors experience the kinds of changes that an environment can undergo over several hundred years. Uses historical narratives, images of objects, timelines, maps, and...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Extra, Extra!! Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Newscast
This lesson will be an interdisciplinary lesson that involves both English Language Arts and Social Studies (History). The lesson will be primarily technology-based and also project-based that will have the students performing historical...