Constitutional Rights Foundation
Constitutional Rights Foundation: Indian Removal: The Cherokees, Jackson, and the "Trail of Tears"
Collaborative and consensus building activity on U.S. policy and treatment of Native Americans. Lesson provides an in-depth look at government Indian removal and provides a list from which students choose and defend a Native American...
Other
Collector's Guide: Indian Territory: Phoenix Rising From the Trail of Tears
A discussion of the art forms preserved by the Native Americans who were resettled by the U.S. government in the Indian Territory.
US National Archives
Our Documents: President Andrew Jackson's Message, 'On Indian Removal'
Interactive image of the original document through which President Andrew Jackson called for "Indian Removal," in 1830. Includes transcription as well as background and overview of the text and results of the Indian Removal policy.
MLB Advanced Media
Cleveland Indians Official Site
Official Site of the Cleveland Indians featuring links, news, stats, schedules, rosters, and more.
Library of Congress
Loc: Omaha Indian Music
A fascinating site of traditional American Indian music. Listen online to the 44 wax cylinder recordings from 1895-97! Listen also to interviews of the tribe giving background information.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Indian Mounds: Virtual Field Trip
The Indian Mounds experience includes virtual field trips to Ocmulgee National Monument, Kolomoki Mounds State Park, and Etowah Indian Mounds Historic Site.
Other
Mc Clung Museum: Prehistoric American Indians in Tennessee
A comprehensive look at the prehistoric Indians who lived in Tennesse, beginning with the PaleoIndian period through the Mississippian period of mound builders. Find pictures of artifacts, drawings, and a good discussion of each period.
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New Mexico Museum of Art: Prehistory: Paleo Indian Sites
Download a great map of New Mexico showing the Paleo-Indian sites from 10,000 B.C. to 5,500 BC. [pdf]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: American Indian Culture of the Southeast
The Southeast Indian tribes were known for their agricultural success. Examine their farming practices, pottery, mound building traditions, and societal structure in the following summary. Also included are pictures, maps, critical...
PBS
Pbs: "Kill the Indian and Save the Man": Native American Representation
Learn about the impact of US government policies of assimilation, relocation, and urbanization on Native American identity and culture in this series of videos from the American Masters film Words from a Bear: N. Scott Momaday. Years...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: American Indian Boarding Schools
This collection uses primary sources to explore American Indian boarding schools.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Perspectives on the French and Indian War
A collection that uses primary sources to explore perspectives on the French and Indian War.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The American Indian Movement, 1968 1978
This collection uses primary sources to explore the American Indian Movement between 1968 and 1978.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Colonial Indian Relations
By 1640 the British had solid colonies established along the New England coast and the Chesapeake Bay. In between were the Dutch and the tiny Swedish community. To the west were the original Americans, then called Indians.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian Sherman Alexie
This collection uses primary sources to explore The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie.
Other
Tn Gen Web Project: Indian Land Cessions in the American Southeast
Detailed maps of Indian land cessions of the Indians in the Southeast.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of the American Indian: Creation's Journey
A virtual tour of two exhibits that were created for the National Museum of the American Indian but students from four American Indian schools. The exhibits display a wide variety of American Indian artifacts with descriptions of each...
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.
University of Nebraska
Univ. Of Nebraska Lincoln:early Recognized Treaties With American Indian Nations
All of the treaties that were negotiated between Native Americans and the United States government can be accessed here. Charles J. Kappler's Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, which is the primary reference for treaty texts, is fully...
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas: Map of Early Indian Tribes in Eastern u.s.
A map of the land inhabited by Indian tribes in the eastern part of the United States before European settlement. Map shows linguistic stocks as well as culture areas, major, and minor tribes.
Digital History
Digital History: Explorations: Indian Removal
In this exploration, students will examine the federal policy toward American Indians, why President Jackson introduced the Indian Removal Policy, Native American resistance to removal, and the human meaning of removal.
University of Oklahoma
University of Oklahoma: Indian Reorganization Act Documents
Part of a larger digital project on Indian legal documents, this page contains all constitutions and charters that came from the Indian New Deal.
Thinkport Education
Mpt: Exploring Maryland's Roots: Visit a Woodland Indian Village
Explore a Woodlands Indian village in the area of what became Maryland. By using drawings from early explorers, this representative village helps you understand the culture of the Eastern Woodland Indians.
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Narf: Individual Indian Money (Iim) Accounts: Cobell v. Salazar
Site provides a fact sheet for Individual Indian Money (IIM) account holders. There are also answers to questions commonly asked by Individual Indian Trust beneficiaries.
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