Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Carnegie Museum: North South East West: American Indians and the Natural World
Web companion site to the Alcoa Foundation Hall of American Indians exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. It focuses on American Indians' relationships with the natural world and explores four different visions: the Tlingit...
PBS
Pbs: Indian Pride: Spirituality: Lesson Plan
Students will be able to understand the connection between land and spirituality for Native Americans (specifically Sioux or Lakota/Dakota) and how this impacts economic decision-making.
The History Cat
The History Cat: War on the Great Plains: The Last Indian Wars
Learn how the 30-year Indian Wars started and about the battles that were fought over those years. Describes the emergence and growth of the Ghost Dance movement that was initially envisioned by a Paiute medicine man named Wovoka. White...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian: National Museum of the American Indian: Battle of Little Bighorn
The Battle of Little Bighorn made an immense impression on American society and culture. Americans became obsessed with this battle and created artworks, shows, postcards, and dime novels. View primary sources from this era to understand...
Curated OER
National Park Service: Wind Cave National Park: History of the Black Hills
Story of the discovery of gold in the Black Hills of South Dakota and resulting violations of 1868 treaty with Lakota Indians.
PBS
Pbs the West: George Armstrong Custer
This is a biography of General George Armstrong Custer who was killed in the Battle of the Little Bighorn against the Lakota Indians.
PBS
Pbs the West: Lakota Accounts of the Massacre at Wounded Knee
This PBS site offers excerpts from the report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1891 on the events of the Massare at Wounded Knee in 1890.
Curated OER
National Park Service: The Indian Memorial Peace Through Unity
Memorial for the Battle of Little Bighorn, a clash of Native and white cultures, which changed both forever.
PBS
Pbs: Teton Sioux Indians
This site from PBS contains an article on the Teton Sioux Indians and the Lewis and Clark expedition.
PBS
Pbs: Yankton Sioux Indians
Provides information on the Yankton Sioux Indians and the Lewis and Clark expedition.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Traditions and Languages of Three Native Cultures
This lesson plan helps students learn aspects of three Native American languages, the Tlingit, Lakota, and Cherokee. Five lessons lead teachers and students through traditions, similarities and differences, and the importance of...
PBS
Mpr: The Meaning of Sioux Music and Song
This site from the Minnesota Public Radio provides the text of a 1915 article written by musician and self-trained anthropologist, Frances Densmore. Densmore spent years studying the music and culture of the Teton Sioux and other native...
Other
Native American Bedtime Story Collection
This site provides eleven short stories based on different Native American stories. Stories from different tribes such as Navajo and Lakota.
Other
The Weekly South Dakotan: South Dakota History for 4th Grade
From the very beginning and through the twentieth century, this comprehensive collection of lessons will enrich students studying the history in between and the effects on South Dakota.
PBS
Pbs the West: Fight No More Forever (1874 1877)
From the PBS critically acclaimed series, "The West" comes this introduction to the Indian Wars that were waged in the course of settling the frontier.
A&E Television
History.com: 10 Things You May Not Know About Sitting Bull
Get the facts about one of the most legendary Native Americans of the 19th century. Sitting Bull was born around 1831 into the Hunkpapa people, a Lakota Sioux tribe that roamed the Great Plains in what is now the Dakotas.
PBS
Pbs the West: The Everywhere Spirit
This PBS site describes events between 1866 and 1868 in the Indian Wars. Including the Lakota attack on a wagon train bringing supplies to Ft. Kearny and Custer's attack on the Cheyennes on the Washita River.
C-SPAN
American Writers: Black Elk
An informational site on Black Elk. Includes general information about his life, works, and writings, including Black Elk Speaks. Also includes links to other sites.
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: The Wounded Knee Massacre
This primary source set uses documents, photographs, government records, and news reporting to explore the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee and its historical impact.
PBS
Pbs the West: The Battle of the Little Bighorn
This site from PBS is an excerpt from an 1893 book "Picture Writing of the American Indians" by Garrick Mallery which offers an eyewitness account of the Battle of Little Bighorn by the Lakota Chief Red Horse.
Other
Powerful People: Sitting Bull: Hunkpapa Sioux (1831 1890)
Contains limited biographical information about Sitting Bull, as well as quotes from Chief Sitting Bull.
US National Archives
Our Documents: Treaty of Fort Laramie(1868)
Read and view a copy of the complete text of the treaty of Fort Laramie which recognized the Black Hills as part of the Sioux Reservation. Accompanying documentary explains how the treaty was broken as a result of the discovery of gold...
PBS
Pbs: New Perspectives on the West
This in-depth resource presents a history of the American West from pre-Columbian times until World War I with profiles, documents, and images. It encourages visitors to link these into patterns of historical meaning for themselves....
Other
Wounded Knee Museum
Virtual tour of the massacre at Wounded Knee from a museum dedicated to preserving the history of what happened there.