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Virginia Foundation for the Humanities: Virginia Indian Heritage Trail [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This 92-page guide has accurate information on tribes and sites in Virginia. It has tribal histories, biographies of well-known historical figures, photographs, and suggested readings.
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The Seminole Tribe of Florida: Culture

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use this site to explore the culture of the Seminole Indians of Florida. There are links to find out about their art, basketry, clans, and much more.
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Cherokee Nation: Inter Tribal Council of the Five Civilized Tribes

For Students 9th - 10th
The Inter-Tribal Council of the Five Civilized Tribes represents the Cherokee, the Chickasaw, the Choctaw, the Muscogee, and the Seminole Nations in ensuring their rights are respected by the United States government. It also promotes...
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Family Search: Creek Indians

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides a fairly comprehensive look at the Creek Indians including a brief history, a timeline, birth and death records, references, and links to historical records. These records include: census data, and information from...
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Trail Tribes: Traditional and Contemporary Native Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent resource on the tribal groups located along the trails followed by explorers Lewis and Clark. Each group has a section devoted to its modern and historical cultures, as well as the tribe's relationship with the United States...
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Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the history and culture of this Native American tribe in North Dakota. Includes statistics on the tribal community.
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History of the Shoshoni Indians

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an interesting history of the Shoshoni Indians in the 1800s.
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The Seminole Tribe of Florida Culture

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use this site to explore the culture of the Seminole Indians of Florida. There are links to find out about their art, basketry, clans, and much more.
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US Army Center

U.s. Army Center of Military History: Lewis and Clark: Corps of Discovery: Wintering With the Mandan Tribe

For Students 9th - 10th
The Corps of Discovery stayed with the Mandan tribe for the first winter of their epic trip to the Pacific Coast. Read the entries in the Journals of Lewis and Clark to get first impressions and descriptions of the Native Americans who...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of the American Indian: Collections

For Students 9th - 10th
Search the collections of the National Museum of the American Indian, which include a representative sample of this Smithsonian Institution's object and historic photo collections.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: George Catlin's Indian Gallery

For Students 9th - 10th
The Smithsonian offers 32 of Catlin's Indian Gallery paintings online. Catlin visited 50 tribes living west of the Mississippi from 1830 to 1836.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of the American Indian: Native Words: Code Talking

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how members of many Native American tribes became a vital part of America's efforts during World War I and World War II, divising codes that were never broken by the enemy. Includes examples of encoded words.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian: National Museum of the American Indian: The Removal Act

For Students 9th - 10th
At first, the Trail of Tears only described the Cherokee removal of 1838. Later it included the removals of all southeastern Native nations. Take a close look at these primary sources from the Smithsonian which include a reproduction of...
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Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reservation

For Students 9th - 10th
Website of the Wikwemikong Tribe on Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada. Provides information on their heritage, celebrations, language, and way of life.
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Nebraska Studies

Nebraska Studies: Tribes in Nebraska Give Up Lands in Treaties

For Students 9th - 10th
Review this discourse of the many treaties enacted between the settlers and Native Americans during the development of the Great Plains, the problems that arose, and the creation of reservations.
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Uintah Basin Tah Project: American Indians 101: Frequently Asked Questions

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides answers to commonly asked questions about Native Americans, e.g., how they are defined, the proper terms to use, and what a reservation is, as well as questions about their relationship with the federal and state governments,...
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Ohio History Central

Ohio History Central: Michikinikwa or Little Turtle

For Students 3rd - 8th
Recounts the life of Little Turtle. Little Turtle was the war chief of the Miami Indians, the most powerful Indian Tribe in Ohio, who finally advocated for peace with the new United States government.
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Potawatomi History

For Students 9th - 10th
A thorough resource that examines the history and culture of the Potawatomi Indian tribe.
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Access Genealogy: Mariposa Indian Family History

For Students 9th - 10th
Embrace the history and culture of the Mariposa Indian tribe, also known as the Yokuts primarily of San Joaquin Valley, California.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Pueblo Indians

For Students 9th - 10th
Read facts and descriptions about the different Pueblo Indian tribes.
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Access Genealogy: Pequot Indian History

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of the history of the Pequot Indians and their relations with their neighboring tribes and the early English colonists in New England.
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South Carolina Indians

For Students 9th - 10th
A thorough site that provides good basic information on the early indigenous peoples of South Carolina. Information includes tribes, a map of the location of the tribes, history of the tribes, cities and towns with Native American names,...
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US National Archives

Docsteach: Indian Nations vs. Settlers on the American Frontier: 1786 1788

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will compare and contrast two documents from the Revolutionary period written by 1) a combined group of Native American tribes and 2) an American territorial governor, Arthur St. Clair. Students will analyze...
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TES Global

Blendspace: Indian in the Cupboard & Iroquois Indian History

For Students 3rd - 8th
Tried and true websites and videos to enhance studying the novel, The Indian in the Cupboard. Utilize the historical video and fun facts about the Iroquois tribe as well.

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