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Southeast American Indian Facts: Chickasaw Indian Facts

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents some basic facts about the history and culture of the Chickasaw people.
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American Indian Heritage Foundation

Indians.org: Chippewa Legend of the Big Bird

For Students 9th - 10th
English text of the Chippewa tale "Legend of the Big Bird," which ends with a witty lesson about in-laws.
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American Indian Heritage Foundation

Indians.org: Blackfoot Literature

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this site to explore the literature of the Blackfeet Native Americans.
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Curated OER

Map of the Cherokee Indians in 1765

For Students 3rd - 8th
This website provides an overview of Georgia's early years. Includes: information on the Indian tribes which inhabited Georgia before it was settled by Europeans, the purposes behind Oglethorpe's settlement, maps, and links to further...
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Curated OER

George Catlin and Indian Guide Approaching Buffalo Under White Wolf Skins

For Students 9th - 10th
This National Humanities Center site offers an article which examines the main techniques on how the Plains Indian tribes hunted the buffalo.
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Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Carnegie Museum of Natural History: The Iroquois of the Northeast

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site provides a brief look at the history of the Iroquois. The site has information about food, handwork, survival, and modern life.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Us History Map Assessment: Test Your Skills

For Students 3rd - 8th
Test how much you know about major U.S geographic features, Indian tribes, states and regions, European colonists and territorial expansion. View your correct and incorrect answers, and print out your assessment.
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Soylent Communications

William Henry Harrison

For Students 9th - 10th
The ninth President of the United States was a General during the War of 1812. He lead forces at the Battle of Tippecanoe, and in 1813 reversed the losses of General William Hull. As Governor of Indiana Territory he acquired a large...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Extra, Extra!! Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Newscast

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan will be an interdisciplinary lesson plan that involves both English Language Arts and Social Studies (History). The lesson plan will be primarily technology-based and also project-based that will have the young scholars...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Shawnee

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the culture of beliefs of the Shawnee Indian tribe on this website.
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Curated OER

Etc: Maps Etc: Oklahoma and Indian Territory, 1903

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1903 of the Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory prior to statehood (November 16, 1907), showing the boundary between the territories, the territorial capitals of Tahlequah (Indian Territory) and Guthrie (Oklahoma...
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The Woodland/ Algonquian Tribes Before 1500 (Map)

For Students 9th - 10th
A Map of the geographic regions of the various Native American tribes in northeastern North America.
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Curated OER

Montanakids.com: Crow Indian Reservation

For Students 3rd - 8th
The Crow Reservation is located in south-central Montana. This is a brief history of the Crow tribe that call themselves the Apsaslooka.
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Digital History

Digital History: Georgia and the Cherokees [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
The Cherokee nation was one of the Five Civilized Tribes in the Southeast. Read about their achievements, the state of Georgia's attempts to annex their lands, and ultimately, President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Bill. [pdf]
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Nebraska Studies

Nebraska Studies: Geopolitical Powershifts in Affect Life in Nebraska

For Students 9th - 10th
As European colonists began settling in the Plains conflicts rose and ultimately led to the French and Indian War. These conflicts are outlined here.
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Oklahoma Historical Society

Oklahoma Historical Society: Choctaw

For Students 9th - 10th
A summary of Choctaw history from 1820 when they ceded much of their land, through to the beginning of the 21st century. It oulines the many changes they went through, the treaties they signed, their support of the Confederate side...
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Native American Unit

For Teachers 4th - 6th
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...
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Canku Ota: Regalia: Headwear: Part One

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the types of headwear worn by Native American tribes of the Northeast, Southeast, and the Plains.
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Texas Escapes: The San Antonio Council House Fight

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the policy of Mirabeau B. Lamar of expelling and attacking the native tribes in order to remove them from the Republic of Texas. While this was relatively easy to implement with some of the tribes, the Comanches were a...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1865 1898: The American West: Reservation System

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the Indian reservation system, the impact it had on Native Americans, violent clashes between whites and Indians, and how it was destroyed by the Dawes Act of 1887 and resurrected in the 1930s. Includes questions for students...
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Pequot History

For Students 9th - 10th
A look at the culture and history of the Pequot Indians, a Northeast Woodlands tribe living in Connecticut.
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Virtual Jamestown: Powhatan (D. 1618)

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about Powhatan, the leader of the Powhatan federation of Indians and the father of Pocahontas. Through his dealings with John Smith of the Jamestown establishment, Powhatan became an important connection between the Indians and the...
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Nebraska Studies

Nebraska Studies: The Story of the Ponca: Broken Promises in Treaties

For Students 9th - 10th
Part of a larger site, this page deals with the promises made by the U.S. government to the Ponca tribe, but were disregarded over the years.
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Nebraska Studies

Nebraska Studies: The Conversion Struggle

For Students 9th - 10th
The story of the problems on converting native Americans to a Christian religion. It uses the example of Christian missionaries who were trying to convert the Pawnee tribe in the 1830s.

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