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Bringing History Home: Native American History
This 5th grade unit is an introduction to Native American history in the 19th and 20th centuries. The lessons focus on U.S. government policies that have determined the official relationship between the government and Native American...
PBS
Pbs: Circle of Stories
This PBS series site captures Native American stories told by the storytellers themselves. Students can also find information on language and land issues confronting Native Americans today.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of the American Indian: New Modernities in a Post Indian World
Fifteen young artists acquaint viewers with the challenges faced by Native Americans in today's world.
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Colorado Historical Society: Tribal Paths: State's American Indians, 1500 Today
Exhibit investigates major events in the history of Native Americans in Colorado over five centuries.
Read Works
Read Works: They Call Them Apaches
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Apache Native Americans. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Bringing History Home: Communities Long Ago
This Grade 1 unit explores U.S. communities in a historical context. By exploring their own community's buildings and services of both long ago and today, children in non-Native American communities are introduced to concepts of change,...
The Newberry Library
Newberry Library: Library Exhibit: Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country
A virtual library exhibit which explores how the United States history and Indian peoples along the expedition route, came together over two hundred years ago, and how they remain intertwined today.
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Read Works: Give Thanks
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Thanksgiving Day, how it originated and how it is celebrated today. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Decolonizing the Map: Creating the Indigenous Mapping Collective
For many Indigenous communities, mapping plays a large role in reclaiming their lands. Mapping is not new to Indigenous peoples, in fact, some of the world's earliest maps can be seen in cave paintings or heard in the stories that have...
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Citizen Potawatomi Nation
Visit this informative and interesting tribal site to learn about the life and activities of the present day Potawatomi.
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Edward. Moore and Texarch Associates: Texas Indians: The Karankawa Indians
The history of the Karankawa of Texas is discussed, their way of life, and their interactions with Europeans. Only a few of them seem to survive to today.
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Read Works: Biochar
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about biochar, a Native American soil treatment that may still have environmentally friendly benefits for agriculture today. A question sheet is available to help students build...
EL Education
El Education: San Diego: A Story of Exploitation and Restoration
Students work together with college professors, museum experts, naturalists, historians, and industry leaders to research and create a field guide indicating the effects of growth and changes in hunting and fishing industries in San...