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Oneida Nation: The Oneida Creation Story [Pdf]
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
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
[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
Built in 1848 for the Oneida Community.
Cynthia J. O'Hora
Mrs. O's House: Allies in War, Partners in Peace
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
This biographical sketch of Mary Cornelius Winder at the Oneida Indian Nation site describes the struggles of the Indian land claim movement.
Digital History
Digital History: Utopian Socialism
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...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: John Mayfield, Triumph of Nationalism: America, 1815 1850
An essay in which historian John Mayfield claims Americans' evangelical passion is the "religious equivalent of nationalism."
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Native American Cultures Across the United States
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...
University of Groningen
American History: Essays: Resisting the European Onslaught
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.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Utopian Communities, 1800 1890
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.
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Carnegie Museum of Natural History: The Iroquois of the Northeast
This site provides a brief look at the history of the Iroquois. The site has information about food, handwork, survival, and modern life.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: The Iroquois Tribes
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...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Iroquois Confederacy
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
Essay on the Native American role in the American Revolution.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Experiments With Utopia
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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