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Army: Native Americans in the u.s. Army: Code Talkers
During World War I and World War II, Native Americans from various tribes worked to keep American military communications secret through the use of tribal languages as code. Learn how these individuals worked to create codes that the...
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Native American Facts for Kids
Website for younger readers presents resources on American Indians for children and teachers. Provides simple online information, pictures, and fact sheets for kids about each tribe.
Geographypods
Geographypods: Kayapo & Kamayura People of Brazil
Learning module focuses on the Kayapo and Kamayura people of Brazil. Find out how the Brazilian rainforest tribes use their natural surroundings to help their everyday lives and how we can learn from them.
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Ethnological Museum: Native Americans of the Plains
Part of a larger exhibition about Native Americans, this page gives visitors an up-close look at the Hidatsa and the Mandan, Native Americans of the Plains. Viewable are a decorated a buffalo skin and color etchings of tribal chiefs...
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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.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Native American Cultures Across the United States
Students explore different aspects of the cultures of the First Americans in this lesson plan. Stereotypes are often associated with Native Americans through movies and in the context of the Thanksgiving holiday. Specific information and...
US National Archives
Our Documents: Treaty of Fort Laramie(1868)
Read and view a copy of the complete text of the treaty of Fort Laramie which recognized the Black Hills as part of the Sioux Reservation. Accompanying documentary explains how the treaty was broken as a result of the discovery of gold...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Contested Territories
This site highlights the westward expansion of settlers in North America and the effects this expansion had on Native Americans between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars.
Library of Congress
Loc: Immigration: Destroying the Native American Cultures
Detailed and extensive account of the plight of Native Americans during the westward growth of America. Includes maps, audio recordings, authentic letters, speeches,a great timeline, and much more.
PBS
Pbs: The Living Edens Manu, Peru's Hidden Rainforest
Read about Peru's "hidden" rain forest-Manu. This site provides in-depth information about the flora and fauna of the region as well as conservation efforts and the history of the area. There are additional resources for the classroom...
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Univ. Of Oklahoma: The Iroquois Constitution
You can find the complete text of the Iroquois Constitution at this site.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: u.s. History Map Interactive
Become a geography whiz as you learn how the United States was settled. Discover how the continent was irrevocably changed by European colonization, the events that caused the wholesale displacement and decimation of the land's original...
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Southeast American Indian Facts: Choctaw Indian Facts
Presents some basic facts about the history and culture of the Choctaw people.
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Southeast American Indian Facts: Chickasaw Indian Facts
Presents some basic facts about the history and culture of the Chickasaw people.
American Indian Heritage Foundation
Indians.org: Chippewa Legend of the Big Bird
English text of the Chippewa tale "Legend of the Big Bird," which ends with a witty lesson about in-laws.
American Indian Heritage Foundation
Indians.org: Blackfoot Literature
Use this site to explore the literature of the Blackfeet Native Americans.
Curated OER
Map of the Cherokee Indians in 1765
This website provides an overview of Georgia's early years. Includes: information on the Indian tribes which inhabited Georgia before it was settled by Europeans, the purposes behind Oglethorpe's settlement, maps, and links to further...
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George Catlin and Indian Guide Approaching Buffalo Under White Wolf Skins
This National Humanities Center site offers an article which examines the main techniques on how the Plains Indian tribes hunted the buffalo.
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Carnegie Museum of Natural History: The Iroquois of the Northeast
This site provides a brief look at the history of the Iroquois. The site has information about food, handwork, survival, and modern life.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Us History Map Assessment: Test Your Skills
Test how much you know about major U.S geographic features, Indian tribes, states and regions, European colonists and territorial expansion. View your correct and incorrect answers, and print out your assessment.
Soylent Communications
William Henry Harrison
The ninth President of the United States was a General during the War of 1812. He lead forces at the Battle of Tippecanoe, and in 1813 reversed the losses of General William Hull. As Governor of Indiana Territory he acquired a large...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Extra, Extra!! Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Newscast
This lesson will be an interdisciplinary lesson that involves both English Language Arts and Social Studies (History). The lesson will be primarily technology-based and also project-based that will have the students performing historical...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Shawnee
Learn about the culture of beliefs of the Shawnee Indian tribe on this website.
Curated OER
Etc: Maps Etc: Oklahoma and Indian Territory, 1903
A map from 1903 of the Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory prior to statehood (November 16, 1907), showing the boundary between the territories, the territorial capitals of Tahlequah (Indian Territory) and Guthrie (Oklahoma...
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