Digital History
Digital History: The Fate of Native Americans
A brief look at the inability of Native Americans to halt the settlement of their lands by American colonists after the French and Indian War. There is a short description of Chief Pontiac and his alliance of several tribes which fought...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Native American History for Kids: Apache Tribal Peoples
On this site, students learn about Native American Indian Apache tribe from the Southwest of the United States.
University of Oklahoma
University of Oklahoma College of Law: The Treaty of Greenville
Contains the full text of the Treaty of Greenville which was a treaty of peace and friendship between the United States of America and the tribes of Native Americans called the Wyandots, Delawares, Shawanees, Senacas, Miamies, Ottawas,...
Crayola
Crayola: Hides That Reveal (Lesson Plan)
A fun lesson plan for a class studying Native American culture. Students create their own tepees, or animal hides with designs and symbols representing their own personality. Also contains adaptations and resources. (To access this...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Utopian Promise: Mary Rowlandson
After immigrating to the New England colonies, being captured by Wampanoag Indians, Puritan and author acclimates herself to the Native American culture as a form of survival and documents her time kept captive. See "Mary Rowlandson...
Nebraska Studies
Nebraska Studies: The Conversion Struggle
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.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Comanche
Wikipedia offers detailed information on the Native American group, the Comanche.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Mohawk
Learn about the culture and history of the Native American tribe Mohawk.
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: Miwok
Learn about the culture of the Native American tribe Miwok.
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.
Curated OER
National Park Service: Five Views: A History of American Indians in California
A history of five tribes in the California Native American culture area.
PBS
Frontier House: The Extermination of the American Buffalo
The reign of the buffalo across the plains ended in great slaughter by the end of the 19th century. This companion essay to the PBS series, Frontier House, recounts how the decimation of the buffalo occurred, hastened by both white and...
Hartford Web Publishing
World History Archives: Hartford Web Publishing: The Significance of Wampum
This site contains information about the term Wampum and its significance. Also contains information about Native Americans collecting shells and their worth to the tribe.
Other
Lewis & Clark Among the Shoshone
Two sisters and authors go into detail over the journey of Lewis & Clark as they seek the Shoshone Indians for Sacagawea, who played a critical role in communication between the explorers and the Native Americans.
Other
Trail Tribes: Traditional and Contemporary Native Culture
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...
Other
Cherokee Nation: Inter Tribal Council of the Five Civilized Tribes
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...
Other
Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reservation
Website of the Wikwemikong Tribe on Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada. Provides information on their heritage, celebrations, language, and way of life.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of the American Indian: Collections
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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