Other
Native American Bedtime Story Collection
This site provides eleven short stories based on different Native American stories. Stories from different tribes such as Navajo and Lakota.
Other
Arkansas Archeological Survey: Indians of Arkansas Indians in the Old South
After the Louisiana Purchase, the status of the Native Americans changed from partners to a declining group whose presence conflicted with United States plans. Follow the events which changed and reshaped the lives of these Native peoples.
Other
Monticello: President Jefferson & the Indian Nations
This resource discusses how Thomas Jefferson sought to bind Native Americans to the United States through treaties for security reasons and how he tried to get the Indians to adapt to a way of life like the white settlers' way of life.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Native American Diversity
Extensive lesson plans for students to become familiar with the traditions and customs of different Native American groups and compare them to each other. There are links included in more information needed in the lessons.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Buffalo Tales: The Near Extermination of the American Bison
This National Humanities Center site offers an article which examines the main techniques on how the Plains Indian tribes hunted the buffalo.
PBS
Pbs: Lewis and Clark: Mandan Indians
An informative look at the Mandans, the Indians with whom the Corps of Discovery spent their first winter. Read about their villages, ceremonies, and relations with other Indian tribes. From PBS.
University of Groningen
American History: Essays: The Iron Horse: Central Pacific and Union Pacific
From a lengthy essay on the history of the railroad in the United States. This section describes the competition between Union Pacific and Central Pacific to complete the transcontinental railroad. Workmanship was often shoddy and...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Tracking the Buffalo
This explores the role of the buffalo in the lives of the American Indians of the northern plains.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Native American History for Kids: Tribes and Regions
Kids learn about where Native American Indian tribes and regions in the United States on this site.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Native American History for Kids: Cherokee Tribe and Peoples
Explore the Cherokee the Native American Indian tribe from the Southeast of the United States on this website.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Native American History for Kids: Iroquois Tribe
This website contains information about the Native American Indian tribe the Iroquois from the Northeast of the United States. Learn about what they lived in, wore, and other fun facts!
Ducksters
Ducksters: Native American History for Kids: Navajo Nation and Tribe
Explore the Native American Indian tribe the Navajo from the Southwest of the United States on this site. Learn about the clothes they wore, jewlery they made, and other fun facts!
Ducksters
Ducksters: Native American History for Kids: Sioux Nation and Tribe
Kids learn about Native American Indian tribe the Sioux Nation from the Great Plains of the United States on this site. Explore where the Sioux live, eat, and more on this website.
Other
Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan: A Grammar of Their Language
The history of the Ottawa and Chippewa Native Americans is recorded in this twenty four chapter analysis by Andrew J. Blackbird. Includes important legends and family and personal history as related to the tribes. With links to...
Digital History
Digital History: Declaration of Indian Purpose
Read a portion of the document adopted by the Native American representatives from over sixty tribes in 1961 setting forth their political agenda.
Other
An Introduction to North America's Native People: Plains Culture Area
A wonderful website from Cabrillo College on the Plains Indians can be found here. It gives an in-depth historical overview, profiles of numerous Plains tribes, the significance of the horse, and great information on their culture and...
Other
Texas Beyond History: Life and Times of the Caddo
This site is really a gateway for a number of other sites about the Caddo tribes. There is a site that introduces the Caddo, telling who they are, about their homeland, and the like. An interactive map traces the Caddo homeland. Caddo...
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,...
Other
Calgary Board Education: Our First Nations: Blackfoot
Educators will find this a useful research model for their students. Each slide addresses a different aspect of the Blackfoot tribe's daily life and culture.
American Indian Heritage Foundation
Indians.org: Pawnee Literature
Brief background information about the history and culture of the Pawnee. Includes the text of a Pawnee prayer. This site links to specific Pawnee stories and to other information on the Pawnee Tribe and authors.
Other
Southeast American Indian Facts: Choctaw Indian Facts
Presents some basic facts about the history and culture of the Choctaw people.
Other
Southeast American Indian Facts: Chickasaw Indian Facts
Presents some basic facts about the history and culture of the Chickasaw people.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Utah History Encyclopedia: Ute Indians Southern
This resource provides information about the southern Ute Indians in Utah.
Lin and Don Donn
Native Americans in Olden Times for Kids: Southeast Woodland Indians
A brief overview to the Southeast Woodland Native American culture. Find a map, and a brief discussion of their languages, arts, religions, and tribal organization. Hyperlinks to information on specific Southeast Woodland tribes.