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**American Notes: Travels in America,
1750-1920
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lhtnhtml/lhtnhome.html
*A NEW WORLD
Earliest European maps of the Americas
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tr11a.html#newworld
Vespucci Letter
A letter from Amerigo Vespucci describing his third voyage
to America
http://www.wdl.org/en/item/2829/
Concerning the Savages
The Voyage of Samuel Champlain, from Brouage, Made in New
France in 1603
http://www.wdl.org/en/item/2830
President Andrew Jackson’s
Instructions to the “Civilized” Indian Tribes to Move West
The very letter read in person by the chiefs
http://www.raabcollection.com/Search.aspx?query=andrew%20jackson
Follow DeSoto's Trail
A detailed map of DeSoto's Southeastern trail
from Florida to Arkansas
http://desotostrail.com/
**Indian Tribes Treaties,
1801-1869
Documents about ratified and unratified
treaties with various Indian Tribes, 1801-1869
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu
History of the Lewis and
Clark Expedition
From UNESCO (United Nations)
http://www.wdl.org/en/item/107/
** Pizarro and the Incas
From the Library of Congress
http://myloc.gov
**44 U.S. Presidents
Morphing
http://www.flixxy.com/presidents-morphing.htm
*Two Worlds Touch
Online video: 10-year old boy K'ayum is living as his Lacandon
culture but deforestation threats his culture.
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
**The Popham Colony
Online video: Founded in 1607 and abandoned in 1608, the Popham
Colony existed in Maine
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
Journeys West
Access primary sources to develop an understanding of westward
expansion
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/01/west/index.html
**Canada apologies for
'failing' Native people
Video: The Canadian government officially apologizes for its
treatment of Native at residential schools.
http://www.indianz.com/News/2008/009265.asp
**Quebec City: 400 Years of
History
The first
permanent French settlement in North American was at a place the
Algonquin called Québec.
http://archives.cbc.ca/dossier.asp?page=1&IDDossier=3512&IDCat=353&IDCatPa=262
*Jamestown, Quebec, Santa
Fe: Three North American Beginnings
Commemorates the 400th anniversary of these three
lasting settlements founded in North America between 1607-1609
http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=2023
**Rural Communities: Legacy
&Change
Learn
about the losses experienced by Indian communities
http://learner.org/redirect/november/rural19.html
**Where is Vinland?
Where was the idyllic
Vinland where Europe first encountered America?
http://www.canadianmysteries.ca
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus is a symbol, not of a man, but of imperialism.
http://www.indigenouspeople.net/columbu1.htm
Guides to Catholic-Related
Records for the United States about Native Americans
Includes
detailed Boarding School information
http://www.marquette.edu/
**Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers'
Project, 1936-1938
Memoirs from the daughter of a slave to a Creek
Indian.
http://memory.loc.gov/mss/mesn/130/120115.tif
**Zoom into Maps
Offers hundreds of historical maps, including European
invasion and exploration of the Americas
http://memory.loc.gov/
**French Ontario in the 17th and 18th
centuries
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/
Eeyou Istchee: Land of the Cree
The impact of the
James Bay Hydroelectric Project, from the Cree point of view and in their own
language.
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-69-2473/life_society/cree/
Between Worlds: Voyagers to Britain
1700-1850
Focuses on the
ambiguities of encounters between historic visitors to England and their
British contemporaries.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk
**Nimham's Indian Company of 1778
Indians who fought in
the Revolutionary War
http://www.americanrevolution.org/ind2.html
Colonialism Transforms Indian Life
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org
Resolution of Apologies to the Native
Peoples
A Congressional effort
now in place.
http://www.nativeres.org/
**The Buccaneers of America, 1768
A book containing
illustrations and descriptions of "the feats of these raiders as they disrupted
shipping on the high seas and terrorized Caribbean settlements."
http://www.loc.gov/flash/pagebypage/buccaneers/
European Encroachment, Native Resistance
As European invaders
moved westward, they forced Native Americans to relinquish their traditional
lands, and with it, their sovereignty.
http://nac.library.cornell.edu/
Continuing Encounters
Early European
insights into America's Native people
http://nac.library.cornell.edu/
**The Russian Orthodox Church
and Native Alaskans
Incredibly moving human exchanges that took place between the
priests of the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska and Native Alaskans, during the years 1794 to about 1915.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/russian/russch1.html
**DeSoto's Midwestern Conquest: Starting Point
Maps of 16th century
Spanish conquest trails among Native American villages in 14 States, including
Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois
http://floridahistory.com/inseta.html
**Native American Holocaust
Museum
Documentation, study, and interpretation of Native American
Holocaust history
http://www.nahm.org/
**Roanoke Revisited
An educational journey
of Virginia's Lost Colony
http://www.nps.gov/fora/roanokerev.htm
**Chiapas Highlands: The Weaver's Tale
Listen to how a young
Tzotzil woman is trying to bridge the gap between old and new in the Chiapas
highlands.
http://www.archive.org/
Raised Voices: Toninho on indigenous
peoples
Audio testimonies of
people from the Majority World on the impacts the G8 has on their lives and
their countries.
http://www.archive.org/
Harvest Ceremony: Beyond the
Thanksgiving Myth
From the Smithsonian,
assists teachers in preparing lessons about the first Thanksgiving
http://www.nmai.si.edu/education/files/harvest.pdf
**Exploration
& Explorers
Looks at Europe's view of North
America before & after Columbus
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/community/cc_exploration.php
**The 1897 Petition Against the Annexation
of Hawaii
The US overthrow and
imposition of the Republic of Hawaii was contrary to the will of the native
Hawaiians.
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/hawaii-petition/
**Allotment Era in Cherokee History
An interactive website
about the division of Reservation lands into parcels that could (and were) sold
to non-Indians from 1887-1934.
www.cherokee.org/allotment
*WHO'S LAND IS THIS?
Video clip about the truth of Canada's settlements and
treaties.
http://www.motionvisual.com/filmcatalogue_sub.htm
**The
Berger Pipeline Inquiry
Across Canada, native
leaders celebrate the Berger Report as "the best statement on native
rights since the Europeans came to Canada."
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-73-295/politics_economy/pipeline/
**Discovery
of America by Prince Madog ab Owen Gwynedd, 1170
Account given by Gen.
Bowles, Creek or Cherokee Indian, and by members of other tribes
http://memory.loc.gov
**Pacific Travelers
The Indigenous Pacific islanders who voyaged with Cook
http://www.common-place.org/vol-05/no-02/newell/index.shtml
**National
NAGPRA Database
Organized documents related to the Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act
http://web.cast.uark.edu/other/nps/nagpra/
** Saint
Augustine Map, 1589
The oldest item in the State Archives of Florida,
http://www.floridamemory.com/
** New World Encounters
American history does not begin with Columbus
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog01/
** Indian Affairs Head Makes
Apology
Remarks of Kevin Gover, Assistant Secretary of Bureau of
Indian Affairs
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/IndianApology.html
** The Journey of Christopher
Columbus: Beyond the Textbook
Information about the 1492-1493 journey headed by Christopher
Columbus from Spain to the "new world."
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/socialstudies/btt/columbus/
**Realms of
Gold: A Catalogue of Maps in the Library of the American Philosophical Society
Nearly 600 page volume is the definitive guide to all maps
held at the APS.
www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/r/rog.htm
Initial point marker
Commemorating the establishment of the boundary between
Arkansas Territory and Indian Country
http://www.cr.nps.gov/
**National Geographic: Lewis
& Clark
An interactive log based on the journal entries from the Lewis
and Clark expedition.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/
**Native American Deeds
From Essex County, Massachusetts:a web site of Colonial-era
land deals with local tribes
http://www.salemdeeds.com/nativeamericandeeds.asp
**Colonial
Cartography: The Plymouth Company Maps
Indian deeds are represented on some of these maps.
http://www.mainememory.net/home.shtml
**Sorry Day
Activities to acknowledge the impact of the policies of
forcible removal on Australia's indigenous populations.
http://www.acn.net.au/articles/sorry/
MAKING TREATIES
Video clip focusing on British Columbia's land ownership and
economic future.
http://www.motionvisual.com/filmcatalogue_sub.htm
*Journals of
the Lewis and Clark Expedition Online
Contains several thousands pages of the explorers' journals
and superb extra features
http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/index.html
*Historic Maps in K-12
Classrooms
Features lessons built around historically important maps
including Columbus's world (1482), an Indian map of the Southeast (1721), Captain Cook & Hawaii
http://www3.newberry.org/k12maps/
*Journal of the H.M.S.
Endeavour, 1768 - 1771
Images of James Cook's "journal of the voyage of H.M.S.
Endeavour during which Cook discovered Eastern Australia and circumnavigated New Zealand
http://lii.org/search?goto=025659
*Native
Americans and Mount Rushmore
The insult of Rushmore to the Sioux
http://www.pbs.org/
*The General Allotment Act
Congress's Act which divided Native American reservation land
into parcels
http://www.pbs.org/
*Alabama Changes Columbus Day
to American Indian Heritage
Read the Proclamation
http://eveningrain.com/AlabamaProclamation05.html
Chronology of U.S. Military
Actions and Wars, 1775 - Present
Map of major battles with American Indians
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/warletters/timeline/
A SELECT CATALOG OF NATIONAL
ARCHIVES MICROFILM PUBLICATIONS
Ratified Indian Treaties, 1722-1869. M668. 16 rolls. DP.
http://www.archives.gov/publications/microfilm_catalogs
Canada in the
Making
Looks at Canadian these treaties and laws, and the events that
preceded and followed these changes.
http://www.canadiana.org/citm/themes/aboriginals_e.html
* First Meetings in the North
Pacific
1741: first meeting of Russians with today's Aleut peoples.
http://www.common-place.org/
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*The Viking Deception
Fresh evidence confirming that ta Viking map is ae clever
forgery.
http://www.pbs.org/nova/vinland/
The Sullivan-Clinton Campaign: History, the Iroquois, and George Washington
The largest expedition ever before mounted against the
American Indians
www.sullivanclinton.com
**Removing
Native Americans from their Land
In 1838, the Cherokee were forced on a 1,000-mile march to the
established Indian Territory with few provisions. Approximately 4,000 Cherokees died on this “Trail of Tears.”
http://memory.loc.gov/
**Lewis and
Clark, the Unheard Voices
An alternative viewpoint on an often-glorified era, and call
attention to the dangers of ethnocentric and one-sided versions of history.
http://www.adl.org
Peru Mestizo:
Life and Art in a Colonial Kingdom
The encounter of Francisco Pizarro and the Inca in the Andean
highlands of Peru changed everything-forever. (Exceptional images.)
http://www.humanities-interactive.org/
Drake's Attack
on St. Augustine
The earliest printed depiction of Sir Francis Drake's 1586
attack on St. Augustine, Fla.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr029.html
Indian Affairs: Laws and
Treaties
A compilation of U.S. treaties, laws and executive orders
pertaining to Native American Indian tribes.
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/index.htm
Records of the Indian Claims
Commission
Claims against the United states on behalf of any tribe, band
or other identifiable group of American Indians.
http://www.nara.gov/guide/rg279.html
We the People
Interviews with Native American teens and adults in New York
City indicate the struggle to overcome obstacles created since Christopher Columbus still continues today.
http://www.mediarights.org/search/fil_detail.php?fil_id=00789
Racism: The Internal Madness
In cities of many cultures, racism is not only a black and
white issue.
http://www.mediarights.org/search/fil_detail.php?fil_id=00783
And The Dish
Ran Away With The Spoon
A fascinating documentary from Trinidad and Tobago about the
domination of Caribbean television by programs from the North, primarily the US.
http://www.mediarights.org/search/fil_detail.php?fil_id=04269
Colonel Percy Fawcett
He charted the wilderness of South America, but then
disappeared without a trace
http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/fawcett.htm
Spanish Conquest of Native
America
This Site provides a Twenty-first Century glimpse at the
oldest written history of America
http://www.floridahistory.com/index.html
Hidden from
History: The Canadian Holocaust
This report contains nearly 200 Aboriginal testimonies from
eyewitness of crimes in church-run residential schools and hospitals across Canada.
http://members.tripod.com/annett55/index.html
River People:
Behind the Case of David Sohappy
David Sohappy, a Yakima spiritual leader, was sentenced to a
five year prison term for selling 317 salmon out of season. Claiming an ancestral right to fish along the Columbia,
Sohappy has openly defied state and federal fishing laws
http://www.mediarights.org/search/fil_detail.php?fil_id=01233
The Legacy
Project
Latin American Repression The last half of the 20th century
has seen persistent poverty, political instability and social injustice in many Latin American republics.
http://www.legacy-project.org/events/display.html?ID=14
HAWAII'S ROAD
TO INT'L RECOVERY
A slide show entitled "Hawaii's Road to International
Recovery" includes 65 slides about the prolonged occupation of Hawaii from the 19-21st century.
http://HawaiianKingdom.org/recovery.html
The Ethnography
of Lewis and Clark
This online exhibit from Harvard's Peabody Museum explores
Native American Objects and the American Quest for Commerce and Science.
http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/Lewis&Clark/
Bureau of
Indian affairs,
Information about American Indians and Alaska Natives
http://sipapu.gsu.edu/index.html
Unbidden
Voices: We the People
Stereotypes are often perpetuated and exaggerated through the
media. This video analyzes the stereotypes which have evolved specific to America's indigenous peoples, as seen in
cartoons, liquor and...
http://www.mediarights.org/
Natives of the
Narrowland
The Wampanoags of Cape Cod were among the first to come into
contact with European sailing vessels, and hence, among the first to disappear. Cornell University's American Indian
Program shows NATIVES OF THE NARROWLAND to their graduate students as part of a lecture entitled Thanksgiving's
Children: Myths which Mask the Collapse of the Indigenous Environment.
http://www.mediarights.org/search/fil_detail.php?fil_id=00956
Over 325 Kansas maps have been put online by Wichita
State University. The maps date from 1556 to 1900
http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/
A Place Called
Chiapas
In 1994, impoverished Mayan Indians from the state of Chiapas,
took over 5 towns and 500 ranches in southern Mexico. Filmmaker Nettie Wild traveled to the jungle canyons of southern
Mexico to film the elusive and fragile life of the uprising.
http://www.mediarights.org/
8,000 men Navajos forced to make a grueling 300-mile march.
The Long Walk- the 300-mile, forced walk to exile in New Mexico
http://www.viewzone.com/day3w.htm
A complete index of 368 ratified treaties and 17 unratified treatives between Indian Nations and invading
governments.
Treaty Text Files
http://hometown.aol.com/Ondamitag/index.html
8,000 men Navajos forced to make a grueling 300-mile
march.
The Long Walk- the 300-mile, forced walk to exile in New Mexico
http://www.viewzone.com/day3w.html
Canadian National Museum
The first meetings between Inuit and English, 1576
CMCC - Inuit and Englishmen : The
Nunavut voyages of Martin Frobisher
http://www.cmcc.muse.digital.ca/
Polynesian Voyaging Society: An exploration of "how Polynesian seafarers discovered and settled nearly every
inhabitable island in the Pacific Ocean before European explorers arrived in the 16th century."
Polynesian Voyaging Society
http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/org/pvs/
A look at Haitian history from slavery to assembly
lines.
Bitter Cane
http://www.mediarights.org/search/fil_detail.php?fil_id=00734
Trade, migrations, military strength, cultures...Native peoples in Mexico thrived for centuries before Columbus arrived.
The Discover of America.
Mesoamerica. History. Mexico for kids
http://explora.presidencia.gob.mx/l
The Fur Trade Era
MOUNTAIN MEN AND THE FUR TRADE
http://www.xmission.com/drudy/amm.html
Canada
Heirloom Series
Canada--its settlement and conflict with Native Peoples.
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/heirloom_series/index.htm
While Europeans sailed west to America millions of Russians moved east, settling alongs rivers, coasts and fertile land
occupied by Native peoples.
Meeting of Frontiers
http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfsplash.html
1696 Massachusettes document offering bounties for Indian scalps and prisoners.
An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of
Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera http://memory.loc.gov/
In 1558, Don Juan de Onate ordered European settlers he had led to El Paso to put on their best clothes for the FIRST
Thanksgiving by colonists
First
Thanksgiving 1558
http://www.homeworkcentral.com/knowledge/vsl_files.htp?fileid=161189&tg=ENGLIS&flt=CAB
French and British invasion of the upper Great Lakes area began in the 1500s.
The History of the Upper Midwest: An Overview
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/umhtml/umessay0.html
Mt. Shasta in California, the Colorado Plateau in the Southwest, Devils Tower in Wyoming, and the conflicts with
American culture vs. these Indian spiritual centers.
In the Light of Reverance
http://www.mediarights.org/search/fil_detail.php?fil_id=00149
A documented site of actual trails and campsites used during the Cherokee's forced removal to "Indian
Territory."
Cherokee Trail of Tears Park
http://www.trailoftears.org/
Francisco Coronado, Join this Spanish explorer on his quest for the Cities of Gold.
Francisco Coronado
http://www.homeworkcentral.com/knowledge/vsl_files.htp?fileid=82909&flt=G
1774-1830's...recorded history from the fascinating
Northwest coast
A history of the NW Coast
http://www.hallman.org/indian/.www.html
The War of 1812 and the Amerindians involvement.
Re-living History: The War of 1812
http://library.thinkquest.org/22916/exintro.html
In 1641, The Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de la Pura y Limpia Concepción struck a shallow reef and sunk near Puerto
Rico. Retrace her final journey, walk the decks, and examine the wealth of silver recently discovered in her ruins.
Silver Bank @ nationalgeographic.com
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/silverbank/mintro.html
The illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian sovereignty in 1893 by the American government.
Act of War: the Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation
http://www.mediarights.org/search/fil_detail.php?fil_id=00125
The history of Mexican-American/Chicana women-from the Spanish invasion to the present.
Adelante
Mujeres!
http://www.mediarights.org/search/fil_detail.php?fil_id=00348
Examines how Native Americans have been "imagined" in the movies and in popular culture.
Imagining Indians
http://www.mediarights.org/search/fil_detail.php?fil_id=00134
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**The
Ethnography of Lewis and Clark
A virtual exhibit from Harvard University.
http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/Lewis_and_Clark/
Indian Yell: The Heart of an American
Insurgency
During the 19th century, conflict between Native Americans and American settlers
was at an all-time high.
http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4101
**After the Mayflower
From "We Shall Remain", the acclaimed 2009 PBS series
View Episode online:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/weshallremain/
Transcript:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/weshallremain
**Trail of Tears
From "We Shall Remain", the acclaimed 2009 PBS series
View Episode online:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/weshallremain/
Transcript: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/
**The First Map of the New World
An interactive quest
from the Library of Congress
http://myloc.gov/
**The Forts of Old San Juan: Guardians
of the Caribbean
A history of Puerto Rico & the forts Spain established to protect
its growing population & riches in the Caribbean
http://www.cr.nps.gov
Cortés and the Aztecs
From the Library of Congress
http://myloc.gov/
Columbus
and the Taino
From the Library of Congress
http://myloc.gov/
Kit Carson
"Kit" Carson waged a merciless crusade against the Navajo People.
Watch the entire PBS program online.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carson/program/
Indian Era Forts
A list of European and American Forts on Indian Lands.
http://americanindiancrusadersunited.wordpress.com/
Appeals for Justice: Dhakiyarr Wirrpanda
Dhakiyarr Wirrpanda, an Australian Yolngu elder, appealed his murder conviction
in Australia's Supreme Court and became a catalyst for change.
http://uncommonlives.naa.gov.au/life.asp?lID=2
Under These Fields 1000 Years Ago
Online video: Arizona's Grewe Site and its community covered about two square
miles. Roads are now destroying it.
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
**Leif Ericson Viking Ship
Dedicated to Leif Ericson, the first European to set foot
upon and explore the North American Continent
http://www.vikingship.org
Conflict and Accommodation
From the Library of Congress
http://myloc.gov/
Interpreting the Conquest
From the Library of Congress
http://myloc.gov/
** Drake’s West Indian Voyage 1588-1589
Investigate maps depicting a voyage by Sir Francis Drake which involved attacks
on Spanish settlements around the Atlantic.
http://myloc.gov/E
EUROPEAN INVASION
How the Conquest of Indigenous Peoples Parallels the Conquest of Nature
An audio message from Chief John Mohawk
http://www.archive.org/details/conquest_mohawk
ATTACK ON INDIAN VILLAGE
An extraordinary video shows the moment hired gunmen attack a Makuxi Indian
village in Brazil.
http://list-manage.com
*THEODORE de
BRY's Native American Engraving
As it was seen and drawn by Le MOYNE in 1560's America
http://www.floridahistory.com/de-bry-plates/
**Lost Bird of Wounded Knee
Four days after the
Wounded Knee massacre, Lost Bird was found alive protected byher mother's frozen
body.
http://www.woundedkneemuseum.org/main_menu.html
**Jacques Cartier
The colonization of Canada, Cartier's routes, and his
exploration of Newfoundland and the Gaspe Bay.
http://www.civilisations.ca/vmnf/explor/carti_e1.html
**The Codigo Brasiliense
Materials
relating to Portuguese expansion across the Atlantic for over one
hundred and fifty years.
http://www.brown.edu/
**Columbus Didn't
Discover Us (1992)
Free online documentary. (Registration required)
http://www.movieflix.com
**Chiapas
Video art clip of the
conflicts in cultural and political climate
http://www.indigenouspeople.net/chiapasmov.htm
**Native American Citizenship
The
history of American Indian citizenship and U.S. policy concerning
Native Americans.
http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0700/stories/0701_0140.html
**Historical Statistics of
the U.S.
Colonial Times to 1970 as
http://www2.census.gov/prod2/statcomp/index.htm
**AMERICAN
INDIAN HERITAGE MONTH PROCLAMATION
November, 2004
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
REVOKING THE
BULL "INTER CAETERA" OF MAY 4, 1493
That Papal document called for Carribean Nations and Peoples
to be subjugated so the Christian Empire
http://www.uctp.org/papalbull.htm
*Leif Erikson
Leif Erikson, the first European on North American soil,
summarizes the various
accounts of his journey.
http://www.bbc.co.uk
*The
People...Native Americans
Native American affected by successive waves of immigrants
arrived from other nations
http://memory.loc.gov/l
*1492: AN
ONGOING VOYAGE
An Exhibit of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC
http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/1492.exhibit/Intro.html
Rivers, Edens,
Empires: Lewis & Clark & the Revealing of America
Looks at historical maps, relations
with Indians, & expedition artifacts
http://www.loc.gov/
*1421: The Year China
Discovered the World
This site supports the theory that the
Chinese circumnavigated and charted the globe the Europeans
http://www.1421.tv/
*History of
Guantanamo Bay
Begins with Columbus' Discovery of the Cuban bay in the
Caribbean through 1982
http://www.nsgtmo.navy.mil/history.htm
*500 Anos de
Brasil
An online exibition
http://www.bn.br/f
*Jacques
Cartier Sailed Up the St. Lawrence River
June 9, 1534
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/
*A Settlement with Unsettling
Challenges
The establishment of Jamestown in 1607
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/c
*Fill up the Canvas
Follow Lewis and Clark as they meet the Teton Sioux, Nez Perce,
and other tribes.
http://memory.loc.gov
*Raid of Deerfield,
Massachusetts
During the Queen Anne's War February 29, 1704
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/
*The Annexation
of Hawaii: A Collection of Documents
This large collection includes hand-written letters by Queen
Liliuokalani.
http://libweb.hawaii.edu/
*Journeys
West"
Examine the motivations of people who traveled west during the 1800s, as well as the
conditions they encountered.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/learn/lessons/01/west/index.html
*Captured
By Indians: Mary Jemison Becomes an Indian
http://www.historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5794/
**Memorandum
Regarding the Enlistment of Navajo Indians
Photocopy of actual
memorandum to enlist Navajos as codetalkers
http://www.archives.gov/
* Rapa
Nui (the big island)
European discovery was by the Dutch navigator Roggeveen on Easter day
http://www.beingindigenous.org/
*
Immigration..Native American: Removal from their Land
President Andrew Jackson offered reasons why Native Americans should be
removed from their lands
http://memory.loc.gov
* A
History of Concession Development in Yellowstone National Park, 1872-
1966 [pdf]
http://www.nps.gov/yell/history/concessions/index.htm
The French and
Indian War in Pennsylvania
http://www.explorep
Making of Lewis and Clark:
Great Journey West
Free online documentary. (Registration required)
http://www.movieflix.com
Topolobampo Collection
Records of the Credit Foncier of Sinaloa Company and its
failed utopian colony at Topolobampo Bay, Mexico, in the late 1800s
http://www.lib.csufresno.edu/
Indian Adoption
Project
In 1957, the BIA contracts with the Child Welfare League of
America for Indian adoption by white families.
http://216.198.222.116/childhistory/FRAMES/history1950.htm
Disaster at
Wounded Knee
Such violent conflicts were common throughout many
territories,
http://memory.loc.gov/
Changing Views of Christopher
Columbus
Audio view of Columbus by William Keegan, Florida Museum of
Natural History.
http://talkinghistory.oah.org/
Wounded Knee: 25 Years
Later,
Audio about changes in Native American relations since Wounded
Knee by Fr. Don Doll, S.J.,
http://talkinghistory.oah.org/
Immigration.. Native
American: Losses
The precarious relationship between U.S. soldiers and Native
American hunters..
http://memory.loc.gov/
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Native Americans
Lewis and Clark, Native Americans, and the USGS
http://www.usgs.gov/f
Inventing the
Indian
A collection of images from Northwest Ohio
http://www.attic.utoledo.edu/att02/slideshow/slideshow-demo.html
Maps of the Pimeria
Early Cartography of the Southwest
http://www.library.arizona.edu/pimeria/welcome.html
European
Commission: Support for indigenous people
A brief overview of the European Commission's position on
supporting indigenous peoples.
http://europa.eu.int
Trust
Us
A cartoon satire about the Interior Department's treatment of American Indians
http://www.markfiore.com/animation/trust.html
THE MEETING OF
MOCTEZUMA AND CORTES
Letter of Cortes to Emperor Charles V (1521)
http://www.ancientmexico.com/articles/index.html
American Shores
Maps of the Middle Atlantic Region until 1859
http://www.nypl.org/research/midatlantic/
Our Native
Land
Broadcast: May 14, 1977 . Across Canada, native leaders
celebrated the Berger Report as "the best statement on native rights since the Europeans came to Canada."
http://archives.cbc.ca
Righting 100 years of wrong.
Broadcast Nov. 21, 1996. The Royal Commission report polarizes
Ottawa with its sweeping recommendations.
http://archives.cbc.ca/400d.asp?IDCat=73&IDDos=516&IDCli=2443&IDLan=1&IDMenu=73
The National
Council of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial
http://www.lewisandclark200.org/
Governor's
Office of Indian Affairs Washington State
Information on tribal treaties,
tourism, government relations, and economic development
http://www.goia.wa.gov/
“Another Race of White Men
Come Amongst Us”: Native American Views as British Invade
http://www.historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6626/
“Their Extraordinary Great
Labor”: Roger Williams Observes Indian Customs and Language, 1643
http://www.historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6234/
J John Ball Visits Hawaii in 1833
http://www.historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6209/
“Kill the Indian, and Save
the Man”: Capt. Richard C. Pratt on the Education of Native Americans
http://www.historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4929
“Your People
Live Only Upon Cod”:
An Algonquian Response to European Claims of Cultural
Superiority
http://www.historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5828/
"The Iroquois were much astonished that two men should have been killed so quickly”: Samuel de Champlain
Introduces Firearms to Native Warfare, 1609
http://www.historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6594/
Stealing From
Indians: Inside the Bureau of Indian Affairs
An downloadable expose of corruption, massive fraud and
justice denied
The European Voyages of
Exploration
Spain and Portugal: two pioneering nations, their motivations,
their actions, and the inevitable consequences of their colonization.
http://www.ucalgary.ca/
Columbus and
Celestial Navigation
Learn how Columbus tried to determine his latitude using
celestial navigation on his first voyage across the Atlantic.
http://www1.minn.net/~keithp/cn.htm
Columbus Quest
ColumbusQuest will follow Christopher Columbus' sea route
through the Bahamas to Cuba.
http://quest.classroom.com/
Immigration...Native
American: Destroying Cultures
How European Invasion affected the Native cultures.
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/na_voc.htm
Voyage of the Endeavor
In 1768, James Cook and the crew of the Endeavor set sail for
the South Pacific. Their mission: research effective sea-navigation techniques and seek out the island continent of
Australia.
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/
VIRGINIA AND THE QUEBEC BILL
1774 saw a sharp conflict between Virginia and England as to
jurisdiction over Indian territory north of the Ohio.
http://www.dinsdoc.com/winsor-1.htm
The Indian Boundary Line
A 1763 paper and map of Indian territory.
http://dinsdoc.com/farrand-1.htm
Nahua Numbering System
A precise accounting in graphic images and recorded testimony
or Huexotzinco products paid as tribute to the Spanish.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trt045a.html
Huexotzinco Codex, 1531
Part of the written testimony in a 1531 legal case of the
Huexotzinco people and Cortes against representatives of the colonial government in Mexico.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trt045.htm
Black Hills Treaty,
1868-document photo
Recognizes the Black Hills of Dakota as part of the Great
Sioux Reservation
http://www.nara.gov/exhall/originals/sioux.html
Columbus's book
of Privileges
Authentic copies of Columbus's original documents through
which Isabel and Fernando had him granted titles, revenues, powers, and privileges to him and his descendants. T
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tr00.html#columbus
Cherokee Nation Denied
Foreign Nation Status
In 1831, Associate Justice Smith Thompson wrote a dissenting
opinion upholding the claims of the Cherokee Nation as a foreign Nation.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr050.html
Samuel de Champlain's 1607
Map
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tr22b.html#mapping
Native Youth on
the Indian Act and Assimilation
This radio episode was produced by youth from Native
Friendship Center of Montreal.
http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=4358
CKUT's Long Term Memory
Radio
A 4-part series on Canada's Relationship with Native North
America
http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=4358
New Spain
The Frontiers of Faith (Exceptional images.)
http://www.humanities-interactive.org/newspain/exhibit52.htm
Crossroads of Empire
Printed maps of Texas and the southwest beginning in 1513
http://www.humanities-interactive.org/
The Island of California
A 1656 map
http://www.humanities-interactive.org/
Border Studies: Texas/Mexico
Border
The study of merging cultures from pre-1700 until today
(Exceptional images.)
http://www.humanities-interactive.org
El Canal de Panama/The Panama
Canal -
From the Panama Canal Authority, "the autonomous agency
of the Government of Panama in charge of managing, operating, and maintaining the canal."
http://www.pancanal.com/
Juan de Onate's Journey in
1598 (Exceptional images.)
http://www.humanities-interactive.org/onate/index.html
Huexotzinco
Codex, 1531
The Huexotzinco Codex is an eight-sheet document on amatl, a
pre- European paper made in Mesoameric. It is part of the testimony in a legal case against representatives of the
colonial government in Mexico, ten years after the Spanish conquest in 1521.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trt045.html
Columbus's Book
of Privileges
Top Treasures Gallery: American Treasures of the Library of
Congress
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tr00.html#huex
Unbidden
Voices: We the People
Stereotypes are often perpetuated and exaggerated through the
media. This video analyzes the stereotypes which have evolved specific to America's indigenous peoples, as seen in
cartoons, liquor and...
http://www.mediarights.org/search/fil_detail.php?fil_id=00782
Europe had nothing like the rattlesnake nor North
America anything like the humped camel.
The Columbian Exchange, Plants,
Animals,
and Disease between the Old and New Worlds
http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/
Concepción de la Vega
Tucked away in the foothills of the rich Cibao valley of the central Dominican Republic, the ruins of this once large
and thriving city arenearly forgotten and rarely visited. Researchers from the University of Florida have been working
for the past several years with the Dominican National Park Service to try and change that, by preserving the site's
remains and enhancing its presentation to the public.
COLUMBUS'S FORGOTTEN CITY: The Web of Time, issue 12
http://theweboftime.com/Issue-12/columbus.html
Words from Indian slave children.
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
http://memory.loc.gov/mss/mesn/100/248243.tif
Frontier Forts in the American Revolution
TeachersFirst - Frontier Forts
http://www.teachersfirst.com/lessons/forts/index.htm
Native Peoples and Champlain
Without the help of the American Indians, Samuel de Champlain's plans would never have been realized. Exploring the
country without the people who already lived in North America and knew the territory with its fauna and flora would have
been impossible.
Time Periods - The Native Peoples and Champlain
http://champlain.expomediatour.ca/epoque/ang_autoc.cfm
In 1838, over 850 Potawatomi Indian people were marched 660 miles at gunpoint from their Indiana homeland. More than 40
died--most of them children.
Potawatomi Web "Trail of Death" map
http://www.ukans.edu/~kansite/pbp/people/trail_map.html
Ancient Mexican civilization was nearly 3,000 years old
when Europeans invaded.
Lonely Planet - Mexican pre-colonial history
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/dest/nam/mexhis.htm#azte
Taino ruler Guarionex and his life after European
invasion in 1492.
Columbus My Enemy
http://www.millersv.edu/columbus/data/art/WILSON02.ART
Travel with Louis and Clark and learn how Native Americans assisted them almost every step of the way.
]Lewis & Clark @ nationalgeographic.com
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisclark/index.html
The southern O'odham ("Pimas Bajos"), and the northern O'odham (Pimas Altos)helped Father Juan Bautista Velderrain create a desert masterpiece.
Spain in Arizona: San Xavier del Bac,
http://theweboftime.com/Issue-2/sanxavier.htm
The Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute Curriculum Unit:The Indian's Discovery of Europeans
The Indians’ Discovery of Columbus
http://www.yale.edu/
The Cherokee Trail of Tears
National Historic Trail/The Trail of Tears
http://rosecity.net/tears/trail/tearsnht.html
Examines how Native Americans have been "imagined" in the movies and in popular culture.
Imagining Indians
http://www.mediarights.org/search/fil_detail.php?fil_id=00134
Search this historical cartoon website for "Indians" and experience how influential--and harmful-- the media
can be.
Political Cartoons and Cartoonists
http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/pc_intro.html
From the Library of Congress, this exhibition examines the first sustained contacts between American people and European
explorers, conquerors and settlers from 1492 to 1600."
Discover the discovery.
1492 Exhibit
http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/1492.exhibit/Intro.html
Find out how you can join a free, virtual cross-country voyage with a team of historical explorers.
The Conquistadors - Start the Adventure
http://pbs.org/
Phoebe Banks, whose family were slaves to Creek
Indians, recalls slave days.
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
http://memory.loc.gov/mss/mesn/130/012008.tif
Born
in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
Story of a Young Indian Boy's Recollections of
Slavery.
http://memory.loc.gov/c
People there still talk about the 1756 massacre pf Fort Seybert (W.Wa.)by young Delaware Chief Killbuck and his group of
Ohio-area warriors.
Both Sides: Images form both sides of World War One. The Web of
Time, Issue Two, Fall 1998
http://theweboftime.com/Issue-3/fort2.htm
Kamchatka was born of fire, like the Earth itself. Learn more about the Russian peoples of this Bering Sea region whose
ancestors may be those of many Native Americans.
The Living Edens: Kamchatka
http://www.pbs.org/edens/kamchatka/
More than 200 years after his death, Junipero Serra is still a pivotal figure in California history and a flashpoint for
controversy over European treatment of Indians.
People in THE WEST - Junipero Serra
http://www.pbs.org |