This collection has been carefully selected by New York City educator and curriculum consultant Vivett Dukes to showcase ideas, achievements, and contributions by American people of all backgrounds across eras. The content highlighted...

Take a look at Indigenous art, history, and culture as told through the historians, artists, students, and scientists in this featured resource collection. This Collection includes: Video (29), Lesson Plan (2), Media Gallery (5),...

The Navajo nation's program to include their language as part of the educational system is the result of a survey taken, which is included on this page. The importance of the Navajo language as a cultural tradition is emphasized.

This site has some Aztec poems. These are excellent examples of Aztec poetry. Each one is very unique.

This site is an excellent resource on Sitting Bull. Not only does it include some famous quotes by him and an overview of his life, but it also contains a first-person account of his life which contains many interesting obscure facts and...

Read this good description of the encomienda system that was set up by the Spanish to reward the Spanish colonizers in the New World and to subjugate the indigenous people by requiring their labor on the granted land.

Nature's Law looks at the traditions, culture, governance and spiritual life of the Indigenous People residing in Alberta, such as the Woodland and Plains Cree, Blackfoot and Dene. Videos, quotes and a bibliography all bring this culture...

The Tlingit are an indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. Click here to learn their alphabet.

BBC correspondent Dan Collyns examines the polarizing effects of the clashes in the Amazon between indigenous tribes and Peruvian security forces on the people of Peru. Links to related articles are provided. (June 10, 2009)

A detailed description of the life of Joesph Brant. Providing information on his life in the Ohio Valley to his leadership of the Mohawks after the Revolution, here you will find the many elements of his life.

A comprehensive look at the life of Geronimo, whose extraordinary fierceness and independence led many to consider him gifted with magic. See quotations attributed to him, as well as tales of his fabled ability to walk without leaving...

A biography on the life of Emiliano Zapata, a leader of the Mexican Revolution (1911-17).

This Crow legend tells about a Sioux woman who married a Crow warrior.

This website provides links to numerous Iroquois stories and fables.

This site provides a background of the life and times of the Seminole leader Osceola, otherwise known as "Black Drink". The site houses many links to further information on Osceola as well as many enlargeable images.

This site has an explanation in Spanish and English with a few comprehension questions about the llama in the Andes area of South America. Additional links are provided for more information on this unique animal. Great reading selection...

The America that greeted the first Europeans was, thus, far from an empty wilderness. It is now thought that as many people lived in the Western Hemisphere as in Western Europe at that time -- about 40 million. Estimates of the number of...

This site contains an extensive collection of historic photos, documents, stories, oral histories, indigenous art, and news items related to the Panama Canal and America's involvement in it.

It has been discovered that an indigenous Australian plant possesses a compound that shows antiviral activity against the H5N1 virus. Your mission, should you accept it, is to identify the compound before a rival pharmaceutical company...

An extensive research report on climate change in the Arctic and the impact this is having on the environment, flora and fauna, and indigenous peoples. (Updated: December 20, 2010)

These colonial members of the American Philosophical Society explored the southern colonies. Here you will see what they found to be of scientific importance. There are accounts of indigenous people, flora, and animal species.

Biography of Dr. Andrew Weil noted for his work in alternative health, studied medicinal plants and traditional practices of indigenous people, more recently writing about health and integrative medicine.

A large part of the culture of Puerto Rico is the music of the people. From the early indigenous tribes to the assortment of instruments to the wide variety of dance, get acquainted with the music of Puerto Rico.

Japan's indigenous religion is known as Shinto. Here is a brief look at it with hand drawn illustrations of the shrines, costumes, and masks accompanying the text.