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The Woodland/ Algonquian Tribes Before 1500 (Map)

For Students 9th - 10th
A Map of the geographic regions of the various Native American tribes in northeastern North America.
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Curated OER

Montanakids.com: Crow Indian Reservation

For Students 3rd - 8th
The Crow Reservation is located in south-central Montana. This is a brief history of the Crow tribe that call themselves the Apsaslooka.
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Digital History

Digital History: Georgia and the Cherokees [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
The Cherokee nation was one of the Five Civilized Tribes in the Southeast. Read about their achievements, the state of Georgia's attempts to annex their lands, and ultimately, President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Bill. [pdf]
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Nebraska Studies

Nebraska Studies: Geopolitical Powershifts in Affect Life in Nebraska

For Students 9th - 10th
As European colonists began settling in the Plains conflicts rose and ultimately led to the French and Indian War. These conflicts are outlined here.
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Oklahoma Historical Society

Oklahoma Historical Society: Choctaw

For Students 9th - 10th
A summary of Choctaw history from 1820 when they ceded much of their land, through to the beginning of the 21st century. It oulines the many changes they went through, the treaties they signed, their support of the Confederate side...
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Native American Unit

For Teachers 4th - 6th
This lesson activity introduces to the students the diversity that exists among Native Americans. It provides a map of the tribes in the United States, the tribes in various sections of the US and information about the cultures of these...
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Canku Ota: Regalia: Headwear: Part One

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the types of headwear worn by Native American tribes of the Northeast, Southeast, and the Plains.
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Texas Escapes: The San Antonio Council House Fight

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the policy of Mirabeau B. Lamar of expelling and attacking the native tribes in order to remove them from the Republic of Texas. While this was relatively easy to implement with some of the tribes, the Comanches were a...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1865 1898: The American West: Reservation System

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the Indian reservation system, the impact it had on Native Americans, violent clashes between whites and Indians, and how it was destroyed by the Dawes Act of 1887 and resurrected in the 1930s. Includes questions for students...
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Pequot History

For Students 9th - 10th
A look at the culture and history of the Pequot Indians, a Northeast Woodlands tribe living in Connecticut.
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Virtual Jamestown: Powhatan (D. 1618)

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about Powhatan, the leader of the Powhatan federation of Indians and the father of Pocahontas. Through his dealings with John Smith of the Jamestown establishment, Powhatan became an important connection between the Indians and the...
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Nebraska Studies

Nebraska Studies: The Story of the Ponca: Broken Promises in Treaties

For Students 9th - 10th
Part of a larger site, this page deals with the promises made by the U.S. government to the Ponca tribe, but were disregarded over the years.
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Nebraska Studies

Nebraska Studies: The Conversion Struggle

For Students 9th - 10th
The story of the problems on converting native Americans to a Christian religion. It uses the example of Christian missionaries who were trying to convert the Pawnee tribe in the 1830s.
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Eastern Band of Cherokee: History and Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief history of the Cherokee tribe in the southwest United States, its culture, government, and religion. Find out about the Cherokee who were subject to the Indian Removal Act of 1830, and see how the Cherokee in North Carolina have...
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University of Arizona

Books of the Southwest: The Pima

For Students 9th - 10th
An informational article about the customs of the Pima Indians from the Bureau of Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institute. With popular Pima legends.
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PBS

The West: Sitting Bull Tatanka Iyotanka

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a biography of Lakota Indian Chief Sitting Bull who led his tribe in the Battle of the Little Bighorn against General George Custer.
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PBS

Pbs the West: Fight No More Forever (1874 1877)

For Students 9th - 10th
From the PBS critically acclaimed series, "The West" comes this introduction to the Indian Wars that were waged in the course of settling the frontier.
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PBS

Pbs the West: The Everywhere Spirit

For Students 9th - 10th
This PBS site describes events between 1866 and 1868 in the Indian Wars. Including the Lakota attack on a wagon train bringing supplies to Ft. Kearny and Custer's attack on the Cheyennes on the Washita River.
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Native American Relations in Texas

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a peek inside the Republic of Texas' relations with the Native Americans in the early nineteenth century.
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Oklahoma Historical Society

Oklahoma State University: Library: Chief Kicking Bird

For Students 9th - 10th
This biography discusses the life of Chief Kicking Bird, a 19th century leader and peace chief of the Kiowa tribe of Oklahoma.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1865 1898: The American West: The Dawes Act

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what the impact of the Dawes Act of 1887 was on Native American Indians. Discusses the conflicts between whites and Native Americans that led to its passage and amendments made later. Includes questions for students at end.
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Encyclopedia of Arkansas: Pre European Expoloration

For Students 9th - 10th
Arkansas had many thriving cultures before the coming of the Spanish. Read about Indian culture from the Paleo Indians through the Caddo tribe in 1500.
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iCivics

I Civics: Tribal Government

For Teachers 9th - 10th
As sovereign nations, American Indian and Alaska Native tribes develop and manage their own governments. This lesson examines the varied structures and functions of tribal government as well as the relationship these nations have with...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Maricopa

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the culture of the American Indian group Maricopa. Explore topics such as their history, economy, cultural values, religion, and sociopolitical organization.

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