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Army: Native Americans in the u.s. Army: Code Talkers

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 1st - 8th
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.
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Geographypods

Geographypods: Kayapo & Kamayura People of Brazil

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 3rd - 5th
This site provides eleven short stories based on different Native American stories. Stories from different tribes such as Navajo and Lakota.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Native American Cultures Across the United States

For Teachers K - 1st
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...
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US National Archives

Our Documents: Treaty of Fort Laramie(1868)

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Contested Territories

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Immigration: Destroying the Native American Cultures

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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PBS

Pbs: The Living Edens Manu, Peru's Hidden Rainforest

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
You can find the complete text of the Iroquois Constitution at this site.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: u.s. History Map Interactive

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents some basic facts about the history and culture of the Choctaw people.
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Southeast American Indian Facts: Chickasaw Indian Facts

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents some basic facts about the history and culture of the Chickasaw people.
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American Indian Heritage Foundation

Indians.org: Chippewa Legend of the Big Bird

For Students 9th - 10th
English text of the Chippewa tale "Legend of the Big Bird," which ends with a witty lesson about in-laws.
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American Indian Heritage Foundation

Indians.org: Blackfoot Literature

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this site to explore the literature of the Blackfeet Native Americans.
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Map of the Cherokee Indians in 1765

For Students 3rd - 8th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
This National Humanities Center site offers an article which examines the main techniques on how the Plains Indian tribes hunted the buffalo.
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Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Carnegie Museum of Natural History: The Iroquois of the Northeast

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site provides a brief look at the history of the Iroquois. The site has information about food, handwork, survival, and modern life.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Us History Map Assessment: Test Your Skills

For Students 3rd - 8th
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.
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Soylent Communications

William Henry Harrison

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Extra, Extra!! Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Newscast

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Shawnee

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the culture of beliefs of the Shawnee Indian tribe on this website.
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Etc: Maps Etc: Oklahoma and Indian Territory, 1903

For Students 9th - 10th
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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