Great online resource for finding teaching material to help students learn about American Indian Heritage Month. Features a wealth of information on Native American history, medicine, rituals, religion, art, and culture.

Immerse in the campfire stories of the people who defined Texas. Find out about how the two Americas: the Europeans' version, and the American Indians' version, started changing forever.

Learn about ten North and South American Native American nations by playing the Infinity of Nations Culture Quest game. Examine Native American crafts and artifacts that are part of Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian,...

Excellent resource for educating students on the American Indian perspective on Thanksgiving using the themes of environment, community, encounters, and innovations. Includes images, quotes, classroom activity ideas, and links to related...

This collection uses primary sources to explore the American Indian Movement between 1968 and 1978.

This collection uses primary sources to explore American Indian boarding schools.

A virtual tour of two exhibits that were created for the National Museum of the American Indian but students from four American Indian schools. The exhibits display a wide variety of American Indian artifacts with descriptions of each...

Excellent online companion site to a traveling Smithsonian Institution exhibition on the World War I & World War II American Indian Code Talkers. Features information on Native languages, boarding schools, code talking, and lesson...

Learn about the Ancient Mexican history of art and the influences that their daily lives and culture had on the art. View many pieces from the Collection of the National Museum of the American Indian.

A document on native people's movements can be downloaded here. It contains a National Alliance for Red Power (NARP) newsletter from June/July 1969, that was published in Vancouver, British Columbia. This is followed by materials from...

Search the collections of the National Museum of the American Indian, which include a representative sample of this Smithsonian Institution's object and historic photo collections.

Find Native American tribes grouped by geographic location as well as relevant information and pictures.

Learn about ten different nations of Native Americans in both North and South America by playing this Culture Quest game from the Smithsonian Institution. In addition to the game, there are many other options to choose to learn about...

A fascinating site of traditional American Indian music. Listen online to the 44 wax cylinder recordings from 1895-97! Listen also to interviews of the tribe giving background information.

A comprehensive look at the prehistoric Indians who lived in Tennesse, beginning with the PaleoIndian period through the Mississippian period of mound builders. Find pictures of artifacts, drawings, and a good discussion of each period.

Using primary sources, a self-assessment on the interactions between American Indians and Europeans from 1607-1754.

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.

The Southeast Indian tribes were known for their agricultural success. Examine their farming practices, pottery, mound building traditions, and societal structure in the following summary. Also included are pictures, maps, critical...

Fifteen young artists acquaint viewers with the challenges faced by Native Americans in today's world.

All of the treaties that were negotiated between Native Americans and the United States government can be accessed here. Charles J. Kappler's Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, which is the primary reference for treaty texts, is fully...

In this lesson, 5th graders examine the relations between Indians and the settlers in the 1600s and 1700s. Background information for teachers is included. Students will work in groups to look at three different colonies and read primary...

A fascinating exhibition on the history of Americans of both African American and Native American ancestry. The exhibit looks at policies and laws that affected them, how they have formed and managed communities, their resistance...

A Smithsonian Institution museum dedicated to the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of the native Americans of the Western Hemisphere.

Exhibtion of artwork and artifacts from geographic regions across the Americas highlights the historic significance and diversity of material culture produced by Native Americans, past to present. With examples of textiles, ceramics,...