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PBS

Pbs: American Masters Edward Curtis

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive site about Edward Curtis who took over 40,000 images and recorded rare ethnographic information from over eighty American Indian tribal groups, ranging from the Eskimo or Inuit people of the far north to the Hopi people of...
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Native Languages of the Americas: Native American Headdresses: Facts for Kids

For Students 9th - 10th
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.)
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Indian Wars, American Beginnings: 1492 1690

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Indian Relations, American Beginnings: 1492 1690

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Conquest, American Beginnings: 1492 1690

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A series of illustrations and accounts of Spanish conquest of Indians that reflect the fascination with and the brutality directed against native cultures.
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Other

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the history and culture of this Native American tribe in North Dakota. Includes statistics on the tribal community.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Thompson

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn some brief information about a group of American Indians known as Thompson who lives in British Columbia.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Missions, American Beginnings: 1492 1690

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

Countries and Their Cultures: Cayuga

For Students 9th - 10th
With this resource the students will learn about the culture and origin of the Cayuga, an American Indian group.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Carrier

For Students 9th - 10th
With this resource the students will learn about the culture and origin of the Carrier people, an American Indian group.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Cahuilla

For Students 9th - 10th
With this resource the students will learn about the culture and origin of the American Indian group the Cahuilla.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Beaver

For Students 9th - 10th
With this resource the students will learn about the origins and the culture of the American Indian group the Beaver people.
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Texas A&M University

Csfa: Circum Pacific Research by the Csfa

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Other

Simon Frasier University: A Journey to a New Land

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive site examines questions about early human migration to North America offers grade-level appropriate information for primary, elementary, middle, secondary and post-secondary levels. Teacher resources, simulations, video,...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Wichita

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief overview of an Indian group that lived on the Southern Plains.
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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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Other

Cypress Hills Massacre

For Students 9th - 10th
The Cypress Hills Massacre occurred in the wake of the absence of legal authority in Western Canada after the Hudson's Bay Company presence declined. The murder of thirty Assiniboine Indians by American wolf hunters helped establish the...
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Other

Oneida Nation: The Oneida Creation Story [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the history of this Native American group - how they were forced to leave their land, but purchased a large section of land in what would soon become the state of Wisconsin.
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Other

Oneida Nation: Our Ways: Historic Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the history of this Native American group - how they were forced to leave their land, but purchased a large section of land in what would soon become the state of Wisconsin.
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Other

Usc News: Pnas: Topper Site in Middle of Comet Controversy

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Nature Conservancy

Nature Conservancy: Nash Prairie Preserve

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the beauty of America's prairies and examine efforts to preserve this vanishing part of America's landscape.

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