Curated OER
Native American Indian Resources: Native American Housing Styles
A color map and explanation of the various types of Native American house construction in each region of North America.
Curated OER
Native American Indian Resources: Native American Housing Styles
A color map and explanation of the various types of Native American house construction in each region of North America.
Curated OER
Native American Indian Resources: Native American Housing Styles
A color map and explanation of the various types of Native American house construction in each region of North America.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Contested Territories
This site highlights the westward expansion of settlers in North America and the effects this expansion had on Native Americans between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars.
C3 Teachers
C3 Teachers: Inquiries: New France
A comprehensive learning module on New France that includes three supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Topics covered include where the French explored and...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Coastal Communities Collection
This collection features videos that describe . ECHO members include people from Alaska Native Heritage Center and North Slope Borough ECHO Project in Alaska; Bishop Museum in Hawai'i; New Bedford ECHO Project and Peabody Essex Museum in...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Ponca
Learn about the culture of the Ponca Native American tribe. Explore topics such as their history, cultural values, and dwellings.
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.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Metoac
A brief description of the Long Island Indians known as the Metoac on this site. Learn that the Metoac group includes a few tribes that lived in Long Island New York.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Teton
A page containing information about an Indian tribe known as the Teton who live in South Dakota. Investigate their family life, economy, religion, and history.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Nootka
Learn about the culture of the Native American tribe Nootka. Explore topics such as their history, cultural values, religion, and sociopolitical organization.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Wichita
A brief overview of an Indian group that lived on the Southern Plains.
Other
Ohio Historical Society: Historic Period
Enter the Europeans into the woods and plains of central North America. How did this effect the people that were here already? Who was here, and what happened when worlds collide? Click on the thumbnail images for more information on the...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Extra, Extra!! Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Newscast
This lesson will be an interdisciplinary lesson that involves both English Language Arts and Social Studies (History). The lesson will be primarily technology-based and also project-based that will have the students performing historical...
Curated OER
Etc: Maps Etc: The Location of the Eastern Indian Tribes, 1600s
A map from 1911 of eastern North America showing the general areas of early contact between the Native Americans and European settlers. The map is divided by groups (Algonquians, Iroquoians, Siouans, and Muskhogeans) and the principal...
Curated OER
Leni Lenape Indians, 1654
One modern historical assessment and several original accounts of the mistrust, negotiations, alliances, trading, and disease transmission between European colonizers and native peoples in North America.
Other
Ohio History: Virtual First Ohioans
This award-winning resource from the Ohio Historical Society presents Ohio's first cultures: PaleoIndian, Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian, and Late Prehistoric Period cultures. Click on each period for additional information and great...
Other
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...
Other
Oneida Nation: The Oneida Creation Story [Pdf]
Learn the history of this Native American group - how they were forced to leave their land, but purchased a large section of land in what would soon become the state of Wisconsin.
Other
Oneida Nation: Our Ways: Historic Timeline
Learn the history of this Native American group - how they were forced to leave their land, but purchased a large section of land in what would soon become the state of Wisconsin.
Other
The Royal Proclamation of October 7, 1763
The original text of the British Royal Proclamation, 1763 - the document that dealt with the governance of the new colonies of British North America. The author of the site has published the text of the document as well as an annotation...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Zuni
This reference introduced the Zuni tribe located in New Mexico. Read about their marriage customs, family life, economy, religion and socialization.
New Advent
Catholic Encyclopedia: Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha
This is a biography of a Mohawk Indian woman who converted to Catholicism. She is recognized by the Church as a saint. Please note that "The Catholic Encyclopedia" is a historic reference source and should be viewed in the context of...
Nature Conservancy
Nature Conservancy: Nash Prairie Preserve
Explore the beauty of America's prairies and examine efforts to preserve this vanishing part of America's landscape.