Native Village

European Invasion Library

"With the arrival of the conquistadores began the extermination of 90 million natives of South America and destruction of all cultures on this side of the Atlantic. There is nothing to celebrate on [Columbus Day], unless you want to celebrate the death and cultural destruction of the conquest.”
Marta Gordillo, Argentine

Columbus's ships: www.sailtexas.com

**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

 

**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/
Transcripthttp://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/

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



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