Want to safeguard your students against peer pressure? Teach them all about rhetorical appeals, common attack methods, and various argument tones with a reference sheet on persuasive techniques.

Caring, trustworthiness, and responsibility—these are only a few character traits in focus of a lesson based on stories from the Civil War era. Class members explore several influential lives while reading biographies that highlight...

Metis spiritual beliefs and practices are covered in this paper. Discussion questions and a bibliography are included.

Learn about the culture of the Old Believers religious group. Explore topics such as their history, cultural values, and beliefs.

Batswana are divided into a number of subgroups or "tribes", There are approximately twenty-five totems, which crosscut "tribal" boundaries. Although Batswana received Christian missionaries in the early nineteenth century and most...

History for Kids offers an overview of types of the homes and dwellings of Native Americans. Students learn how environment and resources effect the style and materials used to build homes. Teacher resources included.

Online reference to Native American Gods contains 352 Native American deity names and 214 separate entries

History for Kids presents an overview of the diverse mythology of Native American tribes and provides details of common threads among them. Teacher resources included.

"The Native Peoples of Northern Great Plains Digital Images Database includes photographs, paintings, ledger drawings, documents, serigraphs, and stereographs from 1874 through the 1940's."

Here is a brief article on the use of pictograph robes to record the "stories of battles, horse raids," and other events. Click on part of the pictograph robe photograph to read the story recorded on that portion.