Read Works
Read Works: We're Going to a Powwow
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text describing a Native American powwow. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Omaha
Learn about the culture of the Omaha Native American tribe. Explore topics such as their history, economy, cultural values, religion, and sociopolitical organization.
Library of Congress
Loc: Exploring the Early Americas: Columbus and the Taino
An on-line exhibit displaying copies of Columbus' journals, other writings about his voyages and findings, as well as information and artifacts of the Taino, the Native Americans Columbus encountered on San Salvador.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Menominee
Learn about the culture of the Menominee, a Native American group. Explore topics such as their history, economy, cultural values, religion, and sociopolitical organization.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Mohave Settlements, Kinship
Learn about the culture of the Native American tribe Mohave. Explore topics such as their history, economy, cultural values, religion, and sociopolitical organization.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Miami
Learn about the culture of the Native American tribe Miami. Explore topics such as their history, economy, cultural values, religion, and sociopolitical organization.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Powhatan
Learn about the culture of the Powhatan Native American tribe. Explore topics such as their history, economy, cultural values, religion, and sociopolitical organization.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Potawatomi
Learn about the culture of the Potawatomi Native American tribe. Explore topics such as their history, cultural values, religion, and sociopolitical organization.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Northern Shoshone and Bannock
Learn about the culture of the Northern Shoshone and Bannock Native American tribes. Explore topics such as their history, economy, cultural values, religion, and sociopolitical organization.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Northern Paiute
Learn about the culture of the Northern Paiute Native American tribe. Explore topics such as their history, economy, cultural values, religion, and sociopolitical organization.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Osage
Learn about the culture of the Osage Native American tribe. Explore topics such as their history, economy, cultural values, religion, and sociopolitical organization.
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Powersource: Cherokee Stories
This site from Powersource gives links to many Cherokee myths, including the "Cycle of the Seasons" and "Rock House: Why the Sun Follows the Moon." These are both good examples of the Cherokee religious beliefs of creation.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Religious Pluralism in the Middle Colonies
Essay looks at the phenomenon of religious pluralism in the middle colonies. Author discusses religious sects in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, as well as African Americans and Native Americans.
Other
Idaho Mountain Express: Wovoka, Lame Deer, Rolling Thund
A great description of Wovoka's religion and the influence of the "Ghost Dance." It also describes how the "Ghost Dance" has evolved since his death.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Tlingit
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of the Tlingit, a native tribe. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
Read Works
Read Works: The Pueblo Revolt
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Spanish settlers who moved into New Mexico and tried to force the Pueblo Indians living there to abandon their religion. A question sheet is available to help students build...
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Hillcrest High School: Us History: Expansion in Texas [Pdf]
This chapter covers a time in Texas history during the mid-nineteenth century when Mexico offered land grants to American settlers, but conflict developed over religion and other cultural differences.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Pueblos
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of the Pueblo people of the American Southwest. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
University of Washington
University of Washington Libraries: The Nez Perce
An essay on the Nez Perce. Covers the following topics: oral traditions and origin, homeland and population, seasonal round, subsistence, religion, social organization and intertribal relations, and Euro-American historic contact.
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Eastern Band of Cherokee: History and Culture
A brief history of the Cherokee tribe in the southwest United States, its culture, government, and religion. Find out about the Cherokee who were subject to the Indian Removal Act of 1830, and see how the Cherokee in North Carolina have...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Wiyot
Provides an overview of the culture of Wiyot. Gives basic information on topics such as geography, ethnic makeup, languages, symbolism, economy, food, customs, social stratification, family life, education, religion, and politics.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Wintun
Provides an overview of the history and the traditional culture and religion of the Wintun tribe.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Winnebago
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of the Winnebago. Gives basic facts about location, language, folklore, foods, social customs, family life, education, religion, and more.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Tlingit
Explore the family life, culture, religion, economy, and location of the Tlingit tribe who lives in Alaska.