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U.s. History Images: Native American Tribes
Published images from the mid-1800s to the early part of the 1900s depicting Native Americans from tribes all over the United States.
A&E Television
History.com: Native Americans Weren't Guaranteed the Right to Vote in Every State Until 1962
Native people won citizenship in 1924, but the struggle for voting rights stretched on much longer. Native Americans couldn't be U.S. citizens when the country ratified its Constitution in 1788, and wouldn't win the right to be for 136...
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Colonial America: Native American Cultures
A brief look at the Native American cultures before Contact and some discussion of the interaction with Europeans after Columbus. From an on-line American History textbook.
Curated OER
National Park Service: Five Views: A History of American Indians in California
A history of five tribes in the California Native American culture area.
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Victoriana Magazine: Native American Tribes and u.s Government
The U.S. government's policies towards Native Americans in the second half of the nineteenth century were influenced by the desire to expand westward into territories occupied by these Native American tribes. By the 1850s nearly all...
Idaho State University
Imnh: Southeastern Idaho Native American Prehistory & History
Site presents detailed account of the history of the first Native American groups, Shoshone and Bannock tribes, located in southeastern Idaho.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Becoming Visible: N. Scott Momaday
Relying on many elements, including traditional Native American and European American traditions, this biography features the rich literary contributions of N. Scott Momaday. See "N.Scott Momaday Activities" for more resources.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: America in Class: Early Visual Representations of the New World
A lesson that examines how Native Americans were portrayed by artists in the sixteenth century, whose aim was to convey their appearance to a European audience, and thereby encourage investment in future New World explorations. By...
University of Groningen
American History: Essays: Western Migration Towards the Interior
This resource provides an essay discussing the migration of American colonists into the Ohio River Valley and the impact on the Native Americans living in the area.
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History Matters: John Collier Promises to Reform Indian Policy
Find the report by John Collier, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, to the Secretary of the Interior, describing how he was trying to right many of the wrongs in the federal government's dealings with Native Americans as a result of the...
A&E Television
History.com: The Native American Chief Who Drove Out Spanish Colonists and Nearly Expelled the English
In the summer of 1561, Spanish explorers abducted Opechancanough, a Powhatan Indian youth from the Chesapeake Bay tidewater region and brought him to the royal court of Spain. The kidnapping set off a chain of events that would alter the...
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History.com: Colonists at the First Thanksgiving Were Mostly Men Because Women Had Perished
According to this account (elements of which continue to be debated by historians, especially regarding the presence and role of Native Americans), the historic event didn't happen on the fourth Thursday in November, as it does today,...
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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...
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: The Pueblo Revolt
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read an essay about the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and find out why the Southwest Native Americans rebelled against the Spanish, and were successful in keeping the Spanish out of their pueblos for only...
Ohio State University
Osu History Teaching Institute: Native American History: John Smith and the Powhatan
This lesson relates to understanding primary sources to evaluate John Smith's description of the Powhatan Indians.
Digital History
Digital History: The Fate of Native Americans
A brief look at the inability of Native Americans to halt the settlement of their lands by American colonists after the French and Indian War. There is a short description of Chief Pontiac and his alliance of several tribes which fought...
Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museum
United States Indian Policy During the Late 19th Century: Change and Continuity
By the 1890's, the status of Indian people seemed to validate Frederick Jackson Turner's claim that "the frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history." Natives ceased to threaten the Republic...
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State of Rhode Island: Early History of Rhode Island
Starting with the Native Americans, this site tells of Rhode Island's history. Includes brief biography of Roger Williams and the part he played in the founding of the state.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History: Pocahontas
Encyclopedia Britannica provides a brief biography of Pocahontas, the legendary Native American heroine who saved the life of Captain John Smith.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Us History Map: Arctic, Northwest Coast and California Tribes
A brief description of some of the main Native American tribes that lived in the Arctic, along the Northwest Coast, and in California.
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Seminole Tribe in Florida: Brief Summary of Seminole History
A look at the Seminole Indians of Florida, which includes links to other pages about their history, culture and more.
A&E Television
History.com: How Jim Thorpe Became America's First Multi Sport Star
Decades before Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders starred in baseball and football, Jim Thorpe was America's original multi-sport athlete. A two-time college football All-American and charter member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Thorpe...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Our Way of Making Prayer
The native Yup'ik people of Alaska, like many other Native American tribes, once used decorative masks for ceremonial purposes. Here you can read a short introductory piece about the masks, view the masks, and watch several short video...
Virginia Historical Society
Virginia Museum of History and Culture: Early Images of Virginia Indians
A collection of images of early Virginia Indians that includes information on interpreting the images and shows fanciful images that were not historically accurate.