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Environment Canada: Native Peoples Great Lakes Region
This site provides information on the Indians that inhabited the Great Lakes Region upon settlement by Europeans.
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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...
Stephen Byrne
History for Kids: Maria Tallchief
History for Kids website offers an overview of the life of Maria Tallchief, a proud member of the Osage Indian tribe and prima ballerina for the New York City ballet.
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Gold, Greed, & Genocide: The Story of California's 1849 Gold Rush
Use the table of contents to explore this site which recounts the plight of the Native Americans who lived in California before the Gold Rush and the impact of the gold rush on their lives.
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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.
Curated OER
National Park Service: Effigy Mounds National Monument on Line Teacher's Guide
An extensive guide to lesson plans created by teachers about the mound building Indians.
Native American Art and Technology
Native Tech: Traditional Metal Working in the Northeast
Native Americans used metal long before contact with the Europeans. Find out the history of the use of copper especially in the Northeast as well as later uses of metals. Use the index to access the information. You can also find...
Native American Art and Technology
Native Tech: Wigwams
Find out about the wigwam, the primary type of housing used by Native Americans in the Northeast. You can read primary source descriptions, see how a wigwam is constructed, and tour pictures of contemporary wigwams.
Oakland Museum of California
California's Untold Stories: Natives and Immigrants
This site provides a tour through the history of natives and immigrants to the California Gold Rush area, including African American, California Indian, Chinese, and Latino.
Alabama Humanities Foundation
Encyclopedia of Alabama: Creeks in Alabama
The Creek Indians, native to Alabama are featured in this brief historical overview.
PBS
Pbs the West: A Wound in the Heart
As many as three million buffalo were killed in two years after the coming of the railroad. This site tells the story through quotes from one of the hunters and from Native American writer Scott Momaday and others.
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Lone Star Genealogy: Research in the Lonestar State: Immigration to Texas
The many groups who have settled in Texas are listed, beginning 40,000 years ago. There is a list of the Native American groups, then the successive groups of immigrants from numerous European countries, the African Americans who were...
Oklahoma State University
Oklahoma Historical Society: Missionary Tour in the Chickasaw Nation [Pdf]
A primary source account by a Catholic priest who visited and worked with the different Native American groups in the Indian Territory in 1885. He spent some time with the Chickasaw tribe.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Hopi
Wikipedia offers information on the Hopi, a Native American tribe who mainly live in northeastern Arizona.
Other
Native Peoples: Powwow 101
This article explains what a powwow is, some of its history, how native people feel about them, powwow etiquette, the music, the dances, and the regalia. (Published July-August 2004 issue)
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Calgary Board Education: The Blackfoot Story: Robes and Legends
Story robes hold the history of the Blackfoot. Significant events are recorded on buffalo hides using images and hieroglyphics.
Gabriel Dumont Institute
The Metis Men of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804 1806) [Pdf]
A five page document in PDF format documenting some of the Metis natives that were involved in the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1804-1806.
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: North Carolina
Help discover more about "the story of the lost colony of Roanoke Island." Why did the Wright Brothers fly at Kitty Hawk? Learn more about North Carolina from the Library of Congress website.
Other
Sierra Mono Museum
Sierra Mono Museum presents a colorful resource to gain insight into the North Folk Mono Indian history.
Curated OER
Hesquiaht Woman From the Central Nootka Tribe, British Columbia, 1916
View aspects of the history of the aboriginal peoples of Canada through photographs. Culture, ways of life, and struggles can be examined in this database of primary source images (most from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century).
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Photograph of an Aboriginal Man Standing in a Graveyard, Fort Qu
View aspects of the history of the aboriginal peoples of Canada through photographs. Culture, ways of life, and struggles can be examined in this database of primary source images (most from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century).
Curated OER
Man, Kneeling, in Traditional Clothing Portraying a 17th Century Aboriginal Man
View aspects of the history of the aboriginal peoples of Canada through photographs. Culture, ways of life, and struggles can be examined in this database of primary source images (most from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century).
Curated OER
Photograph of a Man Paddling a Kayak Off the Coast of Greenland, 1889
View aspects of the history of the aboriginal peoples of Canada through photographs. Culture, ways of life, and struggles can be examined in this database of primary source images (most from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century).