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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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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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Read Works: Passages: "The League of the Iroquois" by Matthew Dennis

For Students 11th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This article "The League of the Iroquois" by Matthew Dennis focuses on the 17th and 18th century "The League of the Iroquois" which united six Iroquois Nations: the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas,...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in New York: Oneida Community Mansion House

For Students 9th - 10th
Built in 1848 for the Oneida Community.
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Cynthia J. O'Hora

Mrs. O's House: Allies in War, Partners in Peace

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners will develop digital picture book telling the history of the Oneida People at Valley Forge.
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Oin: A Full Life With Land Claim at Its Center

For Students 9th - 10th
This biographical sketch of Mary Cornelius Winder at the Oneida Indian Nation site describes the struggles of the Indian land claim movement.
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Digital History: Utopian Socialism

For Students 9th - 10th
A good look at the Utopian communities that were attempted in the first half of the 19th century. They had differing reasons for their development, but their common focus was trying a unique way of communal living. Read about the Oneida...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: John Mayfield, Triumph of Nationalism: America, 1815 1850

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An essay in which historian John Mayfield claims Americans' evangelical passion is the "religious equivalent of nationalism."
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Native American Cultures Across the United States

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore different aspects of the cultures of the First Americans in this lesson plan. Stereotypes are often associated with Native Americans through movies and in the context of the Thanksgiving holiday. Specific information and...
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Peace 4 Turtle Island

For Students 9th - 10th
Peace 4 Turtle Island
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University of Groningen

American History: Essays: Resisting the European Onslaught

For Students 9th - 10th
Essay on the efforts to resist European control and conquest. Powerful quote from Sconondoa, elder Oneida chief, as he tries to rally Native American tribes to unify and fight back against the Europeans.
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Utopian Communities, 1800 1890

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site is a lesson plan for students to follow for an assignment dealing with Utopian communities but it does include some background on some of the various Utopian communities of the 19th century.
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Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Carnegie Museum of Natural History: The Iroquois of the Northeast

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site provides a brief look at the history of the Iroquois. The site has information about food, handwork, survival, and modern life.
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: The Iroquois Tribes

For Students 5th - 8th
The Iroquois were a group of five tribes linked by their language and similar culture. Read about why the Iroquois were such a great example of the elevated role of women in the tribes, the complex lifestyle they had, and their political...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Iroquois Confederacy

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of the Iroquois Confederacy. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Indians and the American Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
Essay on the Native American role in the American Revolution.
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Iroquois Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
A rich website all about the Iroquois nation, past and present.
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Experiments With Utopia

For Students 5th - 8th
Read about the communities, often religious, that strove to be a Utopia, a perfect place where man's natural goodness would provide a good life. Several Utopian communities were spread across the East and Midwest.
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National Park Service: Utopias in America

For Students 9th - 10th
A good look at the various Utopian communities established in the United States in the 1800s. Find out about the communities, their founders, and their demise.
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Six Nations: The Great Iroquois Confederation

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides information on the Six Nations or Iroquois Confederacy. Primarily aimed at defeating mistaken assumptions about the history and social organization of the Iroquois, it fails to include sources. Students should look...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Champlain's Route, 1615

For Students 9th - 10th
A facsimile of a sketch map from historian Orsamus H. Marshall (1878) titled "Champlain's Expedition of 1615." The map shows the route of Champlain from Quinte Bay to the fort attacked by him as proposed by Marshall and the route as...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Fort Schuyler and Vicinity, 1777

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of Fort Schuyler (Fort Stanwix) and vicinity at the southern end of Lake Oneida and Mohawk River, site of the Battle of Oriskany (August 6, 1777). The map shows the events of this battle, and is keyed to show: (A) Fort Schuyler;...
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Etc: Maps Etc: The Country East of the Mississippi, 1650

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1872 of the country east of the Mississippi for the year 1650, forty-seven years after the settlement of Jamestown. This map shows early commencement of European settlement and the principal Native American tribal lands east...
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Etc: Maps Etc: The Location of the Eastern Indian Tribes, 1600s

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1911 of eastern North America showing the general areas of early contact between the Native Americans and European settlers. The map is divided by groups (Algonquians, Iroquoians, Siouans, and Muskhogeans) and the principal...

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