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California Newsreel Teacher's Guide: Black Boy

For Students 9th - 10th
Have you ever read any of Richard Wright's work? This site offers an extensive crosscurricular Teacher's Guide that includes questions for research and writing.
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Oakland Museum of California

Gold Rush: Law, Order and Justice for Some Discrimination

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource presents information about the culturally diverse mining towns in California during the time of the gold rush and the treatment of minorities.
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University of California

Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A great place to visit for anyone living/teaching in the Bay Area of California. Nonetheless, the on-line education department offers great resources for people all over the country for topics such as California Indian cultures, Mexican...
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San Francisco State University: Culture: Coast Miwok Indians

For Students 9th - 10th
Find the Coast Miwok Indians culture presented in this report collected from a Point Reyes Ecosystem Field Trip.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Achumawi

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The students will learn about the origins and the culture of the Achumawi people in northeast California.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Wappo

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief description of the Wappo people that lived in Northern California.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Tolowa

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore how the Tolowa tribe lived in the pacific coast region on this webpage.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Shasta

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief description of the Shasta tribe that lives in northern California and southern Oregon.
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Miwok Yokut Raids Into Mexican California, 1830 1840

For Students 9th - 10th
A history of the Yokut Indians and Wars that followed with changes in Hispanic California.
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Camp Internet: Miwok Internet Dig

For Students 3rd - 8th
Peruse this excellent classroom resource to enhance learning the history of the Miwok Indian tribe in California.
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The Gold Rush: Collision of Cultures

For Students 9th - 10th
This page discusses the many different cultures that came to California during the gold rush.
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Sacred Text Archive

Internet Sacred Text Archive: Hupa Texts

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an extremely interesting site in that it consists of myths from the Hupa as told at the turn of the century.
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Digital History

Digital History: Impact of the Mexican Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
Seee how Mexico's independence from Spain affected not only the Mexicans who lived in California, but also the native population, and the white Americans.
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Oakland Museum of California

Gold Rush: Indian Gold Washing

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource contains information and a picture about Indian prospectors. It also contains an audio clip.