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Stephen Byrne

History for Kids: Native American Homes and Dwellings

For Students 2nd - 6th
History for Kids offers an overview of types of the homes and dwellings of Native Americans. Students learn how environment and resources effect the style and materials used to build homes. Teacher resources included.
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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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Interactive
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: What Can You Make From a Buffalo?

For Students 3rd - 6th
The northern Plains Indians used every part of the buffalo. In this interactive matching game, students will match objects made by Native Americans from the buffalo.
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Handout
Ohio History Central

Ohio History Central: Pontiac

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site provides a biographical sketch of Chief Pontiac. Discusses his ties to many different Native American Tribes. Also discusses Pontiac's Rebellion.
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Handout
Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Mescalero Apache

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the culture of the Mescalero Apache, a Native American tribe. Explore topics such as their history, economy, cultural values, religion, and sociopolitical organization.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Mono

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a short description of the Native American tribe Mono.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Mohegan

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a short description of the Native American tribe Mohegan.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Missouri

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a short description of the Native American tribe Missouri.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Pennacook

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the history of the Pennacook Native American tribe.
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EL Education

El Education: Native American Living

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students study Native American life and stereotypes during pre-colonial times. Then they create a historical magazine providing information and illustrations about pre-colonial Northeastern woodland tribes.
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Whiteboard
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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Native American Art and Technology

Native Tech: Culture Areas and the Locations of Tribes With Illustrated Clothing

For Students 9th - 10th
A great map of the Native American culture areas with corresponding drawings of the cultures' individual clothing styles.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of the American Indian: Song for the Horse Nation

For Students 9th - 10th
An exhibition about horses in Native American cultures takes a sweeping look at the ways in which Native peoples, past and present, regard horses and horsemanship. Learn how the horse transformed Native approaches to the hunt, warfare,...
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Other

Ethnological Museum: Native Americans of the Plains

For Students 9th - 10th
Part of a larger exhibition about Native Americans, this page gives visitors an up-close look at the Hidatsa and the Mandan, Native Americans of the Plains. Viewable are a decorated a buffalo skin and color etchings of tribal chiefs...
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Handout
Idaho State University

Imnh: Southeastern Idaho Native American Prehistory & History

For Students 9th - 10th
Site presents detailed account of the history of the first Native American groups, Shoshone and Bannock tribes, located in southeastern Idaho.
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Handout
Son of the South

Son of the South: Indian Tribes

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about various Indian tribes including the Sioux, Cherokees, Comanches. Cheyennes, Creeks, Seminoles, and Apaches.
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Website
Other

Native American Traditional Stories, Legends and Myths

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Legends and myths from several Native American cultures including plains tribes, woodland tribes, and others are found here.
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Website
Other

American Girl: Kaya: An Adventurous Nez Perce Girl

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Meet Kaya, a character in the American Girl series, and learn about Native American life and the Nez Perce tribe through this collection of stories, games, and activities. Also, includes teacher's guide and worksheets.
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eBook
Northwestern University

Northwestern University: Edward S. Curtis's the North American Indian

For Students 9th - 10th
The Library of Congress presents over 2,000 prints from the work of the famed photographer,Edward S. Curtis, who recorded Native American dress, ceremonies, life, and culture representing over 80 tribes during the first half of the 20th...
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Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Native American Society on the Eve of British Colonization

For Students 5th - 8th
This is a brief overview of the Native American cultures, languages, and diversity amont the many tribes that lived in North America prior to European contact.
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Other

Native American Indian Legends: Origin of the Saguaro and Palo Verde Cacti: A Pi

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A Native American Pima legend on how the saguaro and palo verde cacti came into existence. With links to other Native American legends, artwork, photographs, articles, and more.
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Website
Native American Art and Technology

Native Tech: Kettle Manufacture and Repair

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes early Native American techniques for manufacturing and repairing brass and copper kettles with detail on types of handles and rivets for repair jobs and pictures of kettles and repair patches.
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Other

Native American Indian Cultures

For Students 3rd - 8th
Extensive listing of the Native American Indian Cultures from Mexico and various parts of South America. Click on an Indian culture and obtain valuable information about each unique tribe.
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Website
Other

Native American Bedtime Story Collection

For Students 3rd - 5th
This site provides eleven short stories based on different Native American stories. Stories from different tribes such as Navajo and Lakota.

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