Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: The Cree Nation Historical Overview
This site provides an excellent summary of the Cree Indians tracing their origins to the James Bay region of northern Quebec.
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The Aboriginal Mapping Network
Need a map pertaining to a First Nations issue, land claim, or land use? Check out the vast collection of maps organized by the Aboriginal Mapping Network. Thematic maps include information on historic treaty to urban Aboriginals.
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Manitoba Model Forest Network: Wonderful World of Boreal Woodland Caribou [Pdf]
This 60-page Science unit on Manitoba's boreal woodland caribou looks at all aspects of this animal, for example, a day and a year in its life, its habitat, diet, how it maintains its population, adaptations it has made, and threats it...
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People: First Indian American Woman Elected to the House on Her Historic Win
The nation may not have elected its first female president, but there were several women who won big for their states and the nation on November 8, 2016. Meet the first Indian-American woman elected to the House of Representatives,...
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National Museum of Australia: First Australians
A special exhibition that highlights the first two Indigenous groups in Australia. Discover much information on the culture of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and find out what it would be like to be a part of their family.
Curated OER
National Park Service: Coast Salish the First Inhabitants
This National Park Service site gives a good general overview of the Coast Salish people- their environment and their life-style.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Nice Kids Finish First: Study Finds Social Skills Can Predict Future
A learning module that begins with "Nice Kids Finish First: Study Finds Social Skills Can Predict Future Success" by Audie Cornish, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be...
University of Groningen
American History: Documents: Populist Party Platform July 4 1892
Resource provides the complete text to the Populist Party Platform adopted at its first national convention in 1892.
Terres en Vues (Land InSights)
Land in Sights: Visual Arts: Ashukan
View examples of Ashukan, which is songs, visual arts and traditional crafts representing contemporary First Nations, by Jean-Pierre Fontaine and Isabelle Courtois.
Hartford Web Publishing
World History Archives: The Mohawk Defense of Kanasetake
Students looking for a different perspective on the Oka Crisis get it here. The Lubicon Nation is an Aboriginal community in northern Alberta. They have reprinted on this website an opinion from Lubicon News Station, and part of an...
Gabriel Dumont Institute
Virtual Mus. Of Metis Hist. & Cult.: First Metis Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba
A one-page biography of W. Yvon Dumont, Manitoba's first Metis Lieutenant-Governor.
Terres en Vues (Land InSights)
Land in Sights: Visual Arts: Raphael Benedict
Examine work by visual artist Raphael Benedict, who was the Merite Press-Papier 2002 award winner and learn how he has won the trust of his people.
Terres en Vues (Land InSights)
Land in Sights: Visual Arts: Ginette Aubin
Learn about Ginette Aubin who is a painter and engraver from the Malecite nation in Quebec and view examples of her work.
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Nature's Law
Nature's Law looks at the traditions, culture, governance and spiritual life of the Indigenous People residing in Alberta, such as the Woodland and Plains Cree, Blackfoot and Dene. Videos, quotes and a bibliography all bring this culture...
Curated OER
National Park Service: Chaco Culture National Historical Park
Read about the impressive great houses built by the Anasazi in Chaco Canyon in the middle of the first century AD. Find out about the placement of the dwellings, the communication possibiilities, and the eventual demise of Chaco's...
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Aboriginal Youth Identity Series: Teacher Zone
This website provides educators with an opportunity to learn and teach about Aboriginal Leadership in Canada. The elementary section focuses on identifying Aboriginal role models and heroes such as Bill Reid, Buffy Sainte-Marie, or...
Curated OER
National Park Service: Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms
Features 100 aircraft, airfields, research labs, military installations, battle sites, launch facilities, and other places that tell about people and events that made the U.S. a world leader in aviation. Highlights of this travel...
Other
National Governors Association: Alabama Governor William Wyatt Bibb
A brief political biography of the first governor of Alabama, William Wyatt Bibb
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Aboriginal: Culture and Its Meaning/teacher Zone
The Teachers Zone within this Edukit has been designed to provide educators with a variety of Aboriginal and Metis inspired lesson plans. The Teacher Zone section includes a teacher information background section regarding the culture...
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine: Dr. Benjy Frances Brooks
A biography of Dr. Benjy Frances Brooks (1918-1998), the first female pediatric surgeon in Texas.
9/11 Memorial & Museum
National September 11 Memorial & Museum: 7/7 London Bombings
On Thursday, July 7, 2005 - one day after London won the bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games, and the first day of the UK-hosted G8 summit - four suicide bombers detonated explosives in three locations in the central London subway network...
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: The Telephone Goes National
This site provides information about the birth of the telephone. The site also discusses AT&T, the first long distance phone call, and the people involved.
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Mt. Logan: Canadian Titan
Mt. Logan in Canada's Yukon Territory is the tallest mountain in Canada and the second tallest in North America. Learn about the people who live around it, the history of mountaineering in the area, and the science - both geological and...
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Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
Learn about the history of the first Native American code talkers from the Choctaw Nation. Includes profiles of those who worked with the United States government during World War I and World War II.