National Institutes of Health
Paleoindian Large Mammal Hunters on the Plains of North America (1998)
Published journal article that details faunal studies, hunting, weaponry, hunting strategy, butchering, and ritual activities. Seven cultural complexes are considered: Clovis, Goshen, Folsom, Agate Basin, Hell Gap, Alberta, and Cody.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Indian Relations, American Beginnings: 1492 1690
One modern historical assessment and several original accounts of the mistrust, negotiations, alliances, trading, and disease transmission between European colonizers and native peoples in North America.
Other
Native Languages of the Americas: Native American Headdresses: Facts for Kids
Describes the different types of headdresses worn by Native American groups across North, Central and South America. (Note: some links to larger images no longer work.)
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Indian Wars, American Beginnings: 1492 1690
Five documents representing the full range of Indian-European antagonisms, struggles for power, and outright warfare among the Spanish, Pueblo, Wampanoag, English, and French in New Spain, New France, New Mexico, and New England.
Other
Usc News: Pnas: Topper Site in Middle of Comet Controversy
The disagreement between those who theorize that Clovis man was the first to inhabit North America and those who beleive that there was a pre-Clovis culture continues even today. Archaeologists have found evidence of pre-Clovis points at...
New Advent
Catholic Encyclopedia: Catholic Indian Missions of Canada
This article from The New Advent deals with the history and development of Catholic missions to the native peoples of Canada. Please note that "The Catholic Encyclopedia" is a historic reference source and should be viewed in the context...
New Advent
Catholic Encyclopedia: Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions
This site provides information about the Catholic Indian Missions Bureau including its history and the work done by the bureau. Please note that "The Catholic Encyclopedia" is a historic reference source and should be viewed in the...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Conquest, American Beginnings: 1492 1690
A series of illustrations and accounts of Spanish conquest of Indians that reflect the fascination with and the brutality directed against native cultures.
Texas A&M University
Csfa: Circum Pacific Research by the Csfa
Center for the Study of the First Americans at Texas A & M University is researching many different sites across North America looking in to theories of "Clovis First" and "Pre-Clovis" as to who were the first people to inhabit North...
Other
Geo Times: The Ice Free Corridor Revisited
A very comprehensive article about the ice-free corridor which was possibly the passageway for Paleoindians to enter North America. The discussion includes geology as well as anthropolpgy.
Digital History
Digital History: The Seven Years' War
A good overview of the French and Indian War, the part of the Seven Years' War that was fought in North America. Read about the reasons for the war, important battles, and the terms of the Treaty of Paris in 1763.
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...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Missions, American Beginnings: 1492 1690
A Spanish Franciscan and a French Jesuit report on the reciprocal relationship between natives and Catholic missionaries as Europeans settled New France and New Spain.
Nature Conservancy
Nature Conservancy: Nash Prairie Preserve
Explore the beauty of America's prairies and examine efforts to preserve this vanishing part of America's landscape.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Cayuga
With this resource the students will learn about the culture and origin of the Cayuga, an American Indian group.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Carrier
With this resource the students will learn about the culture and origin of the Carrier people, an American Indian group.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Cahuilla
With this resource the students will learn about the culture and origin of the American Indian group the Cahuilla.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Beaver
With this resource the students will learn about the origins and the culture of the American Indian group the Beaver people.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Thompson
Learn some brief information about a group of American Indians known as Thompson who lives in British Columbia.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Wichita
A brief overview of an Indian group that lived on the Southern Plains.