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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Native Americans

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students read informational texts to become experts on Native American culture groups from different regions and times. Students work in small groups and at activitiy center in this unit in which they practice speaking skills.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sioux Treaty of 1868

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore and research the history of Native Americans in North America.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Indians and African Americans 1780-1820

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explain that opportunities for African Americans remained severely limited by slavery until 1783. They examine the 1783 Massachusetts abolishment of slavery and its impact.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Early Indian Inhabitants of Deerfield

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders explain that there is evidence of New England's being inhabited by Indians as far back as 10,000 years ago.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

BASKET MAKING

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners create individual basket plaques emphasizing Native American techniques and designs. Students learn to identify Native American tribal symbols and incorporate them into their basket plaque.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Native Americans

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students are introduced to the culture of a variety of Native American tribes through literature and related activities.
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Unit Plan
Library of Congress

Loc: The Learning Page: Government Policy Toward Native Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
How did the new government deal the Native Americans living in the Northwest Territory? Find out what the government did to keep the peace between the original inhabitants and the new settlers.
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Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Prints and Photographs Online Catalog

For Students 9th - 10th
This online catalog offers thousands of primary source photographs and prints from around the world.
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Handout
Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Fenimore Cooper the Last of the Mohicans

For Students 9th - 10th
Full text of James Fenimore Cooper's novel, "The Last of the Mohicans." Chapters of the text are preceded by an "Author's Introduction," as well as a brief paragraph introducing the context, characters, and plot of the novel.
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Handout
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: Biographies

For Students 9th - 10th
A fantastic resource where you can find biographies of historical figures. You can search by the person's name or by topics, such as Presidents, United States Leaders, Scientists, Inventors, Humanitarians, Explorers and Pioneers,...
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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Native American Cultures Across the United States

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars explore different aspects of the cultures of the First Americans in this lesson plan. Stereotypes are often associated with Native Americans through movies and in the context of the Thanksgiving holiday. Specific...
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Website
Digital History

Digital History: Explorations: Indian Removal

For Students 9th - 10th
In this exploration, students will examine the federal policy toward American Indians, why President Jackson introduced the Indian Removal Policy, Native American resistance to removal, and the human meaning of removal.
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Website
University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Games From the Aboriginal People of North America

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explains many aboriginal games and how they can fit into a Math program.
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Website
University of California

The Bancroft Library: Images of Native Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
These artworks are visual interpretations of Native Americans through the eyes of American settlers. Follow a timeline from 1500-1900 to see the perceptions of Native Americans of the white settlers at that time.
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Primary
US National Archives

Our Documents: Treaty of Fort Laramie(1868)

For Students 9th - 10th
Read and view a copy of the complete text of the treaty of Fort Laramie which recognized the Black Hills as part of the Sioux Reservation. Accompanying documentary explains how the treaty was broken as a result of the discovery of gold...
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Website
Discovering Lewis & Clark

Discovering Lewis & Clark: Coastal Indians

For Students 9th - 10th
Lewis and Clark in their journal made observations about the Coastal Indians including descriptions of the basketry hats made and worn by the Chinookan-speaking people who lived in the region. They also made notes on the habits and...
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Lesson Plan
University of California

History Project: The Removal of the Cherokee Nation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle school lesson plan attempts to answer the question of the government's Indian policy and its relationship to the Cherokee. Students will use sections from 26 primary source documents to aid in the research.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs: Lewis and Clark and Native Americans, Part Three

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A great lesson plan that has your students exploring the interaction between the people of the Corps of Discovery and the Indian tribes they met on their journey to and from the Pacific Ocean. Web site resources, worksheets, and...
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Website
PBS

Pbs: Chief Joseph

For Students 9th - 10th
This PBS-People in the West site provides an excellent biography of the great Native American leader, Chief Joseph. The site includes a photo and his famous surrender speech.
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: The Conquistadors

For Students 9th - 10th
A huge website that provides a virtual field trip exploring the Spanish adventurers who quested for gold and land in the New World. The site has information on Pizarro, Orellana, Cabeza de Vaca, Cortes as well as extensive information...
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Website
University of California

University of California: Robert B. Honeyman Jr. Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection at the University of California-Berkeley can now be accessed online through the Online Archive of California. It provides a vast collection of historically significant primary source images of early California and the...
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Website
Other

Memorial Hall Museum: Turns of the Century

For Students 9th - 10th
Turns of the Century chronicles three centuries, in side-by-side fashion, of American family life, of Native Americans, of African Americans, of newcomers to America, and of the American landscape.
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Other

Bringing History Home: Communities Long Ago

For Teachers K - 1st
This Grade 1 unit explores U.S. communities in a historical context. By exploring their own community's buildings and services of both long ago and today, children in non-Native American communities are introduced to concepts of change,...
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Lesson Plan
Other

Bringing History Home: Native American History

For Teachers 4th - 6th
This 5th grade unit is an introduction to Native American history in the 19th and 20th centuries. The lessons focus on U.S. government policies that have determined the official relationship between the government and Native American...