Come listen to the music, then learn all about totem poles. Information about totem poles includes where to find them, their age, history as well as beautiful photos.

The Western Indian tribes hit the lottery with the abundant natural resources in their area. The tribes that called this area home had diverse cultures depending on the geography of their specific location. Delve into these cultures and...

Several articles and essays about the federal government's attempt to assimilate Native American children into the dominant American society in the late 1800s through the establishment and use of Indian schools.

Three maps of European settlement in Virginia, the Pacific Northwest, and the Spanish New World, and the accompanying official instructions from lenders and monarchs about the obligations, opportunities, and hopes that those...

hese interviews reflect religious, linguistic, occupational and gender diversity and provide rich insight into changing experiences of South Asians in the Pacific Northwest.

Go on an interactive journey to the Pacific Northwest Coastline. You will be able to view a black smoker chimney along with the scientist. GREAT SITE!

The Social Issues Collection is an image database of the Western United States and the Pacific Northwest region. The collection covers a variety of political and social topics, from women's issues, government, labor organizations such as...

Read about the Indians of the Pacific Northwest and the boarding schools whose curriculum attempted to assimilate their children into the dominant American culture.

This site gives an overview of the fur trade with Northwest Coast native peoples in the 1800s, and the impact the fur trade and contact with outsiders had on the natives' way of life.

This National Park Service site gives a good general overview of the Coast Salish people- their environment and their life-style.

Using on-the-scene field reports, photographs, and interviews, visitors join archaeological teams to learn about modern-day Native American fishers of salmon on the Skagit River in Washington, about 2,000-year-old Native American rock...

This is simply a black and white map tracing Vitus Bering's two Nordic Expeditions, or ?Kamchatka? Expeditions, which ended in his death in 1741. Students may want to print the map or use as a guide with other resources.

A fascinating description of the carved spoons used by the Tlingit Indians for ceremonial purposes. The meanings carved into the spoons were read from the bowl of the spoon to the tip of the handle.

Analysis of the history of the sea otter in North America, focusing on its role in the European fur trade of the late 18th Century, this University of Minnesota web page is concise but thorough. The nations most involved in the...

This site presents an introduction to the history of Mount Rainier National Park and the mountain.

Explore the family life, culture, religion, economy, and location of the Tlingit tribe who lives in Alaska.

This NPR article reports on conservation attempts to save the Spotted Owl, which led to the eventual shutdown of 2.4 million acres of forest in Washington alone and the loss of 30,000 jobs.

Provides a diary of two and a half months of travels by John Work as he went from one fur trading post to another in the Pacific Northwest in the early 1800s.

This is a Native American Raven tale from a Pacific Northwest tribe provided by Native American Storyteller, Barry McWilliams.

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

Read the full text of "The Valley of Giants" by Peter B. Kyne. Set in the pacific northwest, this novel follows the ups and downs of the Cardigan family in a logging town.

Coast Moles are difficult to distinguish from Townsend's Moles where their ranges overlap in the Pacific Northwest. Both have velvety, dark-gray fur and tiny eyes and ears that are hidden under their fur. Learn more about the Scapanus...

Keen's Deermouse is the most common deermouse in the Pacific Northwest. It inhabits rainy, mild climate zones at higher elevations than the closely-related Deermouse (Peromyscus maniculatus), and prefers areas where the forest canopy is...

Large for a shrew and with velvety dark fur, the Marsh Shrew can be found in marsh, stream, and beach habitats of the coastal rain forest in extreme southwestern Canada and the Pacific Northwest of the United States. This shrew is...