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**The Raid on Deertown
The many stories
of 1704
http://www.1704.deerfield.history.museum/home.do
**PADDLE JOURNEYS
The return
of the ocean-going cedar dugout canoes and their traditions.
http://community-2.webtv.net/bensuecharles/PADDLEJOURNEY2001/
**
Cloud Warriors
A photo
gallery of where the “cloud warriors” of ancient Peru once lived.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-cloud5jan04-pg,0,6181448.photogallery?coll=la-home-world&index=1
**Moundville: Journey Through
Time
Location:
Alabama
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/video/moundville_56kW.html
Gallica - Bureau of American
ethnology
A database
information from 1881-1933 about American Indian tribes, issues or
studies.
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37575968z/date
We Do Not Know His Name:
Klatsassin and the Chilcotin War
What is
the truth behind this Canadian mystery?
http://www.canadianmysteries.ca/sites/klatsassin/home/indexen.html
The 1850 Indian Slavery
Act
An Act for the Government and Protection of Indians in
California
http://www.indiancanyon.org/ACTof1850.html
Ghosts of the Mountains
Location:
Pennsylvania
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/video/ghosts_56kW.html
They Were Here: Ice Age Humans
in South Carolina
Location:
South Carolina
.http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/video/topper_56kW.html
**Body Modification Ancient and Modern
More about
piercing, tattooing, and body painting and its relationships to Native cultures.
http://www.museum.upenn.edu/
Tribal Journeys: Native American
and First Nations Canoe Journeys of the Pacific NW
Features segments & interviews by the Tulalip Youth Radio Club
www.tribaljourneys.com
**OGLALA LAKOTAH ORAL
HISTORY OF DEC 29, 1890
WOUNDED KNEE MASSACRE
http://mytwobeadsworth.com/WoundedKnee3.html
**Mystery of the Tattooed Mummy
An ornately tattooed 1,600-year-old mummy unearthed in Peru could be a
warrior queen of the violent Moche people.
http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0606/feature2/
Maya Ruins
Photographs from book: Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas
and Yucatan (1841)
http://nac.library.cornell.edu/exhibition/mayaruins/index.html
**THE MEDICINE WHEEL
Video clip of an emotional story of First Nations
spirituality told in the first person
http://www.firstnationsfilms.com/
Mapping History
Thousands of maps
spanning the known world
http://www.bl.uk/learning/artimages/maphist/mappinghistory.html
North America Before 1500 AD
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/northamerica/before1500/index.htm
North America After 1500 AD
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/northamerica/before1500/index.htm
Trail of Tears National Historic Trail
Remember and
commemorate the survival of the Cherokee people
http://www.nps.gov/trte/
Early California Population Project
An amazing wealth
of information available about California's early Indian tribes.
http://www.huntington.org/Information/ECPPmain.htm
**The People of Whaling
Photo slideshow of
the Inupiaq passing on their whaling traditions to youth
http://www.north-slope.org/IHCSite/PoW/index.html
Adventures in the Past: Discovering the
Public Lands' Archaeological. Historic, and Fossil Heritage
Features an interactive map with links to material
http://www.blm.gov/heritage/adventures/
The History of the Cigar Store Indian
Podcast by a Hopi
tribal member
Pt 1:
http://www.archive.org/details/TheCigarStoreIndian_Episode1
Pt. 2:
http://www.archive.org/details/TheCigarStoreIndian_Episode2
**Historical Overview of the Relationship
between the Federal Government and American Indians
http://sorrel.humboldt.edu/~go1/kellogg/federalrelations.html
Jamestown Journey
Marks the 400th
anniversary of the founding of the first permanent English settlement in America
http://www.JamestownJourney.org/
**Forty-Seven Cents An Acre
A lesson plan
where students stage a mock trial of the American-Indian Movement members who
conducted the Alcatraz occupation.
http://www.kqed.org/w/alcatraz/pdf/forty-seven-cents.pdf
**Traditions of the Sun
Explore the
Americas' ancient observatories.
http://www.traditionsofthesun.org/
**A Tale Told by Ancient Bones
A Flash story
about Kennewick Man
http://www.time.com/time/covers/20060313/flash/index.html
**Ancient Observatories Gallery
Amazing! Easy to
use compilation of ancient ruins and other locations observed from space
http://www.spaceimaging.com/newsroom/2005_ancientObservatories.htm
A Native American Scoops Lewis And Clark
The voyage of
Moncacht-apé
http://www.common-place.org/vol-05/no-04/sayre/index.shtml
**THE
CHINCHORRO MUMMIES
Discovered in Chile, the oldest mummies ever found.
http://www.beingindigenous.org/magazine/chinchorro.htm
The Worst Jobs in History
Take a quiz and discover what British jobs were right for
you during the last 2,000 years.
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/W/worstjobs/
Archive of Early American
Images
A database of pictures of the colonial Americas printed or
created between 1492 -1825
http://www.brown.edu/
**The Wounded Knee Museum
A new interactive website to explore and learn more about
the Wounded Knee massacre.
http://www.woundedkneemuseum.org/
Guns, Germs and Steel
Traces humanity's journey over the last 13,000 years"
with a focus on understanding "the roots of global inequality."
http://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/
Raid on Deerfield: The
Many Stories of 1704
Interactive website offers a complex narrative of the
well-known raid on the Massachusetts town which in February, 1704
http://www.1704.deerfield.history.museum/
**Ancient Observatories:
Chichen Itza
An interactive site filled with activities.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ancientobs/chichen/index.html
Traditional
knowledge of the Inuit
An introduction to Inuit classification system for life
and some Inuit legends.
http://www.arctic.uoguelph.ca/cpl/Traditional/traditional_frame.htm
*Transcontinental
Railroad
The West before white settlement
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/tcrr/sfeature/sf_interview.html
The Nazca
Lines of Peru
An alien airport, ancient observatory...what do these 37
miles of straight lines mean? Learn more, then draw your own landscape figure!
http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/nazca.htm
*American
Journeys
Early Accounts of Early American Exploration and
Settlement
http://www.americanjourneys.org/texts.asp
*Sipapu
The Anasazi Emergence into the CyberWorld
http://sipapu.gsu.edu/
* Alaska's
Digital Archives
A wealth of historical photographs, oral histories, moving
images, documents, and other materials.
http://vilda.alaska.edu/
* Mapping Our Land
A Guide to Making Your Own Maps of Communities and
Traditional Lands
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/indigenous/rc/ItemDetail.do~1027604?intcmp=700
Nevada History in Maps
A collection of dozens of historic maps
including imaps representing Native American settlements or culture.
http://www.delamare.unr.edu/maps/digitalcollections/nvhistory/
**Native
Ways: Promoting Subsistence Living and Health Lifestyles in Alaskan Villages
Students, teachers and Yup'ik eldersare working to bring
back subsistence living skills..
http://www.whatkidscando.org/studentresearch/RussianMission.html
**The
Museum Collections at Chaco Culture National Historical Park
Artifacts from the Chaco Canyon, an area of the Colorado
Plateau occupied by Native Americans for over 10,000 years.
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/chcu/
**Wayfinders:
A Pacific Odyssey
Build a sailing canoes & follow the stars on a
2,000-mile Polynesian voyage across the ocean.
http://www.pbs.org/wayfinders/
*The Public
Records of the Colony of Connecticut 1636-1776
Sn initiative of the University of Connecticut Libraries
and supported by the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center.
http://www.colonialct.uconn.edu/
*
America on the Move
From the Smithsonian, interconnected routes exploring how
transportation has affected our world.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/
*David
Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Browse through atlases, globes, school geographies,
maritime charts and more on 18th and 19th century North and South American cartographic materials
http://www.davidrumsey.com/
*Australian
Indigenous Weather Knowledge
Australia's Bureau of Meteorology is gathering knowledge
Indigenous Australians long held their seasonal calendars.
http://www.developmentgateway.org/ik/dg-contribute/item-detail?item_id=287410&version_id=167983
You Are the
Historian: Investigating the First Thanksgiving
http://www.plimoth.org/olc/
*Lewis & Clark: The
National Bicentennial Exhibition
http://www.lewisandclarkexhibit.org
*American
Museum of Natural History Online Field Journal
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/interactivity/index.shtml
PreservationDirectory.com
Resources "for historic preservation, building
restoration and cultural resource
management in the United States and Canada.
http://www.preservationdirectory.com/
*Telling
an Old Story in a New Way
Focuses on the 1704 raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts,
http://www.1704.deerfield.history.museum
*
Nez Perce Nee-Me-Poo National Historic Trail
The 1877 flight of the Nez Perce from their homelands is
one of the most f sorrowful events in Western U.S. history.
http://www.fs.fed.us/npnht/
*
The Cherokee Trail of Tears
http://www.rosecity.net/tears/
*
Voices from the Western Front
An AMAZING website of press clippings and other writings
saved by a farsighted Lakota family.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nalakota/
North Dakota State
Archives and Historical Research Librar
Information major historic sites in and a history and
chronology of the state
http://www.state.nd.us/hist/
The Day You Were Born
http://217.154.97.2/dob/default.asp
Public History Resource
Center
Learn about what exactly constitutes public history
http://www.publichistory.org/
Library Windows on the
Past
A single place to search and browse significant,
historical, digital collections cr
http://historical.library.cornell.edu/
National Day
of Mourning
On Thanksgiving Day, many Native Americans and their
supporters gather at the top of Coles Hill, overlooking Plymouth Rock, for the "National Day of
Mourning."
http://www.holidays.net/thanksgiving/mourn.htm
Ancient
World Mapping Center
Promotes cartography and geographic information science as
essential disciplines within the field of ancient studies."
http://www.unc.edu/awmc/
LOS DIAS DE LOS MUERTOS
(The Days of the Dead)
In the language of the day, All Saints Day and All Souls' Day were known as All-hallowsmas, and October 31 was "All
Hallowed's Eve" or Hallow'e'en.
http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/travel/jking/jkdayofthedead.html
Day of the Dead
From mid-October through the first week of November,
Mexicans celebrate The Dia de Muertos (Day of theDead)
http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/feature/daydeadindex.html
Race Timeline
Learn about the History and evolution of the race concept
http://www.pbs.org/race/003_RaceTimeline/003_00-home.htm
History of
Survival: A Pine Ridge Example
by Desiree Renee Martinez, Gabrielino (Tongva)
http://www.pbs.org/mattersofrace/essays/essay3_survival.html
Law in Mexico Before the Conquest
Explores Aztec and Mayan law through images
an brief overviews of topics such as warfare, attorneys, family law, and more
http://www.law.utexas.edu/rare/aztec/
Thanksgiving
Myths, Thanksgiving Realities
A commentary by Mahtowin Monroe and Moonanum James on why
Thanksgiving is a day or mourning for them.
http://talkinghistory.oah.org/arch1998.html#Anchor-Thanksgivin-21102
Rediscovering Tribal
Wizdom
An article by Shawn Desjarlais about revitalizing
traditional educational practices
http://www.wiretapmag.org/story.html?StoryID=15530
Indian Christmas Prayer
http://www.shadowwolf.org/an_indian_prayer.html
PROPHECY OF
THE WHITE BUFFALO
A wonderful article about the Sacred White Buffalo and
Miracle.
http://www.azwv.com/pmc/azwv/current_miracle.asp
Children in
History
American history through children's voices.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/do_history/young_people/index.cfm
used
REDISCOVERING
TRIBAL WIZDOM
A Native youth activist tells how he's helping other
Native youth break the non-native mindset.
http://www.wiretapmag.org/music.html
The People
of America Foundation
Collects, organizes, distributes and maintains the largest
and most inclusive electronic database on the history of the peopling of the United States.
http://www.americansall.com/
Ohio Memory
Celebrates Ohio History
http://www.ohiomemory.org
Animated Atlas
Portrays Large Chunks of History quickly through animated
maps.
http://www.animatedatlas.com/index.html
AZTEC RELIGION AND
RITUAL
An Indian account of the Aztec Religion
http://www.ancientmexico.com/articles/index.html
DEFENDERS OF THE
BLACK HILLS
A coalition dedicated to stopping the destruction of the
Black Hills
http://www.defendblackhills.org/defenders/
Advisory
instance of Bolivia.
A example of an agreement between Bolivia's Indigenous
peoples and Government (video)
http://www.fondoindigena.org/
Iroquois
Creation Myth, 1816
http://www.historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6375/
The Dutch
Arrive on Manhattan Island: An Indian Perspective
http://www.historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5829/
Kennewick Man Virtual
Interpretive Center
An archive of articles, along with links to other
resources about this hotly contested topic."
http://www.kennewick-man.com/
PBS NOVA - Mystery of the
First Americans
The discovery and ensuing controversy over the Kennewick
Man.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/first/
Seattle's Museum of
History and Industry
Over a million photos, oral history interviews, and
an audio/video archive.
http://www.seattlehistory.org/
Wisconsin
Pioneer Experience: A Digital
Collection
of Original Sources
Documenting 19th Century Wisconsin History
http://libtext.library.wisc.edu/wipionexp/
A History of Native
Nevadans Through Photography
Over fifty historic images of the Native American
population of Nevada.
http://dmla.clan.lib.nv.us/docs/museums/reno/expeople/people.htm
Realms of the Sacred in
Daily Life: Early
Written
Records of Mesoamerica
Annotated images of codices of the Mesoamerican region,
created "prior to the arrival of European explorers in the late 15th century."
http://www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/exhibits/meso/sacred.html
California
as I Saw It
First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years,
1849-1900
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbhome.html
Native American Religion
in Early America
From the National Humanities Center
http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/tserve/eighteen/ekeyinfo/natrel.htm
“A Severe and Proud Dame
She Was”
Mary Rowlandson Lives Among the Indians, 1675
http://www.historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5793/
National
American Indian Heritage Month
"To promote awareness
of and appreciation for the history
and culture of American Indians during National America Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month." From
the National Park Service Service.
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/feature/indian/
Agayuliyararput - Our Way
of Making Prayer
The Living Tradition of Yup'ik Masks
http://www.conexus.si.edu/map/yupgal.htm
Reservation
Controversies--Then and Now
Historic issues dealing with American Indian Reservations
in the 1870s and also in the present
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/97/reservation/teacher.html
Tropical Dreams: A People's History of South Florida
Experience 10,000 years of South Florida history through
the museum's storyline exhibition
http://www.historical-museum.org/exhibits/td/trpdream.htm
Arkansas Chapter of the
Trail of Tears
This catastrophic journey, one of the darker events in
American history
http://www.anpa.ualr.edu/arkansastrailoftears.htm
First Person Narratives of
the America South
Collection of sources on Southern history, including
written accounts of Indian tribes, their cultures, medicines, foods, and more.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/fpn.html
The Dakota Conflict
Trials, 1862
The execution of 38 Sioux at Mankato, Minnesota on
December 26, 1862.
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/dakota/dakota.html
The First American West:
The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820
15,000 pages of original historical material documenting
the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/icuhtml/fawhome.htm
Dancing with
Photons
Leading nuclear scientist and Navajo native, Dr. Fred
Begay blends the experiences of two seemingly contrary beliefs—traditional Navajo world order and logically sound
nuclear physics.
http://www.mediarights.org/search/fil_detail.php?fil_id=01575
Ohio's Historic Indian Heritage,
By the Ohio Historical
Society
http://www.ohiokids.org/cgi-bin/go.cgi
Traditional
Knowledge, Innovations and Practices
Traditional knowledge refers to the knowledge, innovations
and practices of indigenous and local communities around the world.
http://www.biodiv.org/socio-eco/traditional/
Oglala Commemoration
2001
On June 26, 2001, people from many Nations gather at the
Jumping Bull compound, to remember and pray for healing. Experience the happenings from Native American Radio.
http://www.differentdrums.com/thisweek.html
Written June 20, 1676
The
First Thanksgiving Proclamation
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/thanksgiv.html
Treaty with the Wyandot
ETC. 1815
Indian
Affairs: Laws and Treaties. Treaty with the Wyandot, ETC. 1815http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/wya0117.htm
"Ipani
Eskimos: A Cycle of Life in Nature" by James K. Wells. Download it free, at
Alaskool
www.alaskool.org
Red Lake Museum: Welcome Center
Ojibwe artist Norval Morrisseau and Aboriginal History are featured at this Canadian site.
http://www.red-lake.com/museum/
Southeastern Native American Documents,
1730-1842,
More than 1,000 documents and images relating to the Native American population of the Southeastern United States.
http://pluto.gsu.edu/cgi-bin/galileo.cgi?subject=diglibga&style=default
Artifacts
B.C.
Recommended by British Columbia Education
http://www.artifacts.gov.bc.ca/
Native Expressions
From the National Parks Conservation Association, take a journey through time and introduce yourself to centuries of
wisdom.
http://www.npca.org/cultural_diversity/native_expression/default.asp
Ancient Mounds in Iowa
Over 2,500 years
ago Indian peoples in Iowa and throughout North America began to bury
their dead beneath earthen mounds. This custom continued for more than
1,500 years.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~osa/learn/prehistoric/ancientmounds.htm
Lost Cities
Visit Machu Picchu, Mesa Verde, and Tiahuanaco, ancient and mysterious cities built by pre-Columbian Natives. Or were
they?
http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/lostcity.htm
Treaty Site History Center
Traverse Des Sioux, a well known Indian fording place on the Minnesota River
http://emuseum.mankato.msus.edu/history/treatycenter/index.shtml
Cheyenne participants in the
battle of the Little Big Horn
Person-by-person account of what happened on that day
http://www.montana.edu/wwwfpcc/tribes/cheyenne.html
Colonial Williamsburg Lesson Plan: The Trial of Abigail Briggs
Abigal Briggs...the 18th century murder trial of a Indian servant.
http://www.history.org/other/teaching/briggs.htm
Native ranching and rodeo life
on Plains and Plateau
The relationship between Native cowboys, ranchers, and rodeo participants and the horse, dog, buffalo, coyote and deer.
http://www.civilization.ca/membrs/fph/rodeo/rodeo02e.html
Chile's Mummies
Chile's Ancient
Mummies...preserved for over 7.000 years
http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/
Lonely Planet - Mexican pre-colonial history
Ancient Mexican civilization was nearly 3,000 years old when Europeans invaded.
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/dest/nam/mexhis.htm#azte
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The Ancient Americas
A ground-breaking
exhibition takes you through 13,000 years of human ingenuity and achievement in
the western hemisphere
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/ancientamericas/exhibition.asp
Camping with the Sioux
In 1881, Alice
Fletcher traveled to Dakota Territory to live with Sioux women.
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/fletcher/
**First Nations Histories
A bit of history from many
tribes
http://www.tolatsga.org/Compacts.html
America's History in the Making
Pre-Columbian
America and the early contacts between Europeans, Native Americans, and
Africans
http://learner.org/redirect/november/ahist16.html
**Chief Big Foot Memorial Tide
Slideshow of the
events from Indian Country Today
http://www.indiancountry.com/memorial_ride.cfm
**Traditional Knowledge Bulletin
Traditional
Knowledge Policy Analysis and Information Service
http://www.unu.edu/tk/
Shadows and Reflections: Florida's Lost
People
Location:
Florida
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
**Mystery Hill: America's Stonehenge
Pottery fragments from 1000 BC, charcoal dating to 4000 BC...who built these walls, cave-like buildings, and tunnels 40
miles from Boston? No one knows.
http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/mysthill.htm
**Money Substitutes in New Netherland
and Early New York
Wampum rates used in general trade
http://www.coins.nd.edu/C
Chronicling America: Historic American
Newspapers
An online presentation containing more than 226,000 pages of public-domain
newspapers
http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/
NativeReligion.org
Explores the intersection between law, religion, and Native American traditions
in historic and recent cases.
http://www.nativereligion.org/
Chaco Digital Initiative
A
digital archive integrating widely dispersed archaeological data collected from
Chaco Canyon in the late 1890s --1950
http://www.chacoarchive.org/index.html
**Southeastern Native American Documents,
1730-1842
Contains nearly
2,000 documents and images about Native American populations of the Southeastern
US
http://neptune3.galib.uga.edu/
Texas Beyond History
13,500 years of
human history in Texas
http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/
A New Map of the Cherokee Nation
A 1770 map in the
Yale archives
http://www.library.yale.edu/MapColl/amer.html
**Wyoming's
Native People
From the
Wyoming Archives
http://wyld.state.wy.us/
**Passing
on Traditional Knowledge
The
importance of maintaining traditional knowledge has not changed
http://www.ed.psu.edu/icik/2004Proceedings/section4-hill.pdf
**Intergenerational
Activities from a Native American Perspectives
Brings
generations together to strengthen and support cultural learning
http://intergenerational.cas.psu.edu/Docs/NASourcebook.pdf
**The
Oka Crisis
Videos and
lessons about the Oka showdown between Native people, Quebec police and
eventually the Canadian Army
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-71-99/conflict_war/oka/
**ARCHAEOLOGY
AND THE NATIVE PEOPLES OF TENNESSEE
http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/permex/archaeol/archaeol.htm
A Smithsonian TV: curator's
talk with Paul Chaat Smith
http://smithsonian.tv/videos/nmai/Curator_Talks/2005-03-04_ChaatSmith.htm
Repatriation and
Culturally Sensitive Collections
A Smithsonian.TV discussion about repatriation issues in
managing museum collections,
http://smithsonian.tv/videos/nmai/Curator_Talks/2005-04-01_PepperHenry.htm
New Jersey Public Records
and Archives
Contains thousands of documents dating back to the
colonial period.
http://www.njarchives.org/
** Our Universe:
Traditional Knowledge Shapes our World
A Smithsonian TV: discussion with an NMAI curator, Emil
Her Many Horses, about this exhibit .
http://smithsonian.tv/videos/nmai/Curator_Talks/2005_02_04_HerManyHorses.htm
** Legacy
Maudie Shaw, Paiute, discusses how changes in her people's
way of life have whittled away what can be passed on to the next generation.
http://learner.org/redirect/november/rural47.htm
** Bridging World History
Includes civilizations of the Americas -- Mississippian,
Anasazi, Mayan, Incan
http://learner.org/redirect/november/wldhist45.html
** Historical Change
New Mexico students whose first language is Keres are
offered history through books, language, and a timeline
http://learner.org/redirect/november/sslib50.html
**Día
de los Muertos
This Day of the Dead information on the popular Mexican
holiday celebrated on November 2.
http://www.azcentral.com/ent/dead/
Ancient Observatories
Features exhibitions on Chaco Canyon and Chichén
Itzá,
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ancientobs/
**The Jay I. Kislak
Collection at the Library of Congress
Focuses on the early Americas through
the period of European contact, exploration, and
settlement.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/kislak/kislak-home.html
*Unearthing
Tse-whit-zen
An extraordinary interactive website exploring the ancient
Klallam village of Tse-whit-zen.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/l
Indians at the Centennial
Passamaquoddy Indians on public display during Maine's
cenntenial.
http://www.mainememory.net/home.shtml
*Traditions of the Sun:
Chaco Culture National Historical Park
Interactive areas, timelines, video clips, and more
http://www.traditionsofthesun.org/
*Step Into
History
Browse by state to find places where you can see life as
it was.
http://www.stepintohistory.com/
*THE TIME BEFORE THE
PEOPLE...or so many would have us believe
to 12,001 B.C.
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/dgarneau/indian2.htm
Annual Lei Day Celebration
Information about this Hawaiian celebration that takes
place on May 1.
http://www.co.honolulu.hi.us/parks/programs/leiday/
Indian Mounds of
Mississippi
A compact source of information on these impressive
landmarks of the ancient past
http://www.cr.nps.gov/NR/travel/mounds/
*Traditions of the Sun
An videos, interactive views, and more from of all areas
of Chaco Canyon
http://www.traditionsofthesun.org/
**America's
Stone Age Explorers
Unearthing sites that potential double the time frame
people have been in the Western Hemisphere.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/stoneage/
*Before Clovis
In this interactive map, investigate 28 possible
pre-Clovis sites found throughout North America
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/stoneage/clov-flash.html
*Lost King
of the Maya
The early history of of Copán, a Classic Maya
site in northern Honduras.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/maya/
*First
Nations Histories
Geographic histories of tribes east of the Mississippi
River
http://www.tolatsga.org/Compacts.html
*A Trail of
Tears
"Chief Little John and the "Trail of
Tears""
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/nation/tears_1
Voices of
Civil Rights -
The world's largest archive of firsthand accounts and
personal memories of the civil rights movement in America.
http://www.voicesofcivilrights.org
National
Association of Tribal Historic Preservation
http://www.nathpo.org/index.html
Central America: Legacies
of Rebellion
Audio and links to related material
about Nicaragua's Sandinista revolution, El Salvador, Honduras, and Costa Rica
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1731_centralamerica/
* Travels in
America, 1750-1920"
253 narratives describing travels in the colonies
and the U.S
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lhtnhtml/lhtnhome.html
*1st Nations
Sovereignty
Dale Marie Standing Alone speaks on the historic
nationhood of First Nations.
http://realserver.taifun.ch:554/ramgen/rfpi/wmradio_002.rm
The Order of the Indian
Wars
An organization dedicated to protecting the sites of
historical Indian wars.
http://www.indianwars.com/
*The United
States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures
Explores the history of Brazil, interactions between
Brazil and the United States from the 18th century to the present
http://international.loc.gov/intldl/brhtml/
*The First Official
Memorial Day
In 1868, Commander in Chief John A. Logan designated May
30 as a memorial day.
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/recon/memorial_1
North Dakota State
Archives and Historical Research Library
Information major historic sites in and a history and
chronology of the state
http://www.state.nd.us/hist/
*"How my tribe’s
history guides my life."
Read the high school student essays in this contest.
http://www.americanindian.net/contestwinner.html
ln the Light
of Reverance
A film about three Native American communities and their
struggles to protect their sacred sit
http://www.teachingforchange.org/
Lighting the
7th fire
A film about a Chippewa prophecy which speaks of seven
fires representing seven periods of time.
http://www.teachingforchange.org/
Welcome to
Oaxaca, Mexico
The Day of the Dead
http://www.questconnect.org/Oaxaca_Mexico.htm#History
History
Secwepemc Pre-Contact Life, Tsimshian, Metis, and
Fisheries in Canada
http://www.aboriginalcanada.gc.ca/
[Click "Kids" button]
Inventions
Aborignial Innovations in Arts, Science, and Technology
http://www.aboriginalcanada.gc.ca/a
[Click "Kids" button]
Lost City Museum
Built by the national Park Service to exhibit artifacts
that were being excavated from the Pueblo Grande de Nevada.
http://comnett.net/~kolson/
Koshare
Museum
Pueblok Koshares are black-and-white striped characters
who portray unacceptable behavior and provide entertainment while reinforcing community values.
http://www.koshare.org
/Honoring
the Sky: Lakota Star Knowledge and Beliefs
the strong celestial connections Lakota people have
maintained over many generations.
http://www.dmns.org/honoring/honor_index.html
Sacred Run
The Sacred Run was a living tradition among Native
people.
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/E
The
Iroquois Constitution
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/iroquois.html
A Little Bit of Blood (Un
tantito de sangre nada mas)
Zapotec women from Oaxaca discuss the cultural emphasis on
virginity, a Tehuantepec prenuptial tradition.
http://www.mediarights.org/search/fil_detail.php?fil_id=05445
Ndee: The Children of
Changing Woman
A virtual e xhibit from Harvard Created by Ernestine Cody
http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/maria/Cwoman.html
A puritan and his Indian
ward
A 1916 journal report about relationships between the
Puritans and the Indians
http://dinsdoc.com/sears-1.htm
Secrets of a Lost World
The excavation of over 2,000 mummies at the pre-Hispanic
site known as Puruchuco-Huaquerones, located in Peru.
http://crater.nationalgeographic.com/inca/
Indian Affairs: Laws and
Treaties
U.S. Government treaties with Native Americans from
1778-1883 and U.S. laws and executive orders concerning Native Americans from 1871-1970.
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/
History of a Buffalo
Hunter
Describes an 1877 horseback excursion that continued “until
they had killed enough buffaloes to fill fifty carts with the meat.”
http://memory.loc.gov/c
Interview about Oklahoma
Audio description of violence between whites and Native
Americans in the years before stateho0d.
http://memory.loc.gov/
People of the West
Men and women whose have shaped the west, including Black
Kettle, Sacagawea, and Popé, and many other great native leaders.
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/
Pipestone,
Minnesota
Reflects a rich history of American Indian quarrying and
land still sacred to American Indians.
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/pipestone/
Historic
Forts
A global educational geocaching adventure
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=21378
Robert
Dunlap Clarke: Bozeman Trail Diarist
Brief diary entries from U.S. Army paymaster at Forts Phil
Kearny, Fetterman, Reno and C. F. Smith
http://uwadmnweb.uwyo.edu/AHC/digital/clarke/
Traders: Voices from the
Trading Post
Interviews with and slide shows of traders and trading
posts from 1860-1999. Also interviews about livestock, weaving, jewelry, pinon nuts, medicine men, and more.
http://www.nau.edu/library/speccoll/exhibits/traders/
Head-Smashed-In
Buffalo Jump
Legend and overview of the hunting practice that sent
hundreds of buffalo jumping to their death.
http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/faculties/SS/ARKY/hsi/hsi.html
Indian Map of Ohio River
Country
Drawn by "Chegeree (the Indian), this 1755 shows
Indian settlements in the area from Lake Erie to the mouth of the Ohio river in the middle of the eighteenth
century.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr013.html
To the West
An exhibit from the American Treasures of the Library of
Congress
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tr11b.html
Battle of Little Big Horn
A letter and map from Lieutenant Robert Patterson Hughes
to his wife about the Battle of Little Big Horn.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm163.htmlFort
Ancient
Fort Ancient features 18,000 feet of earthen walls
built 2,000 years ago.
http://www.ohiohistory.org/places/ftancien/
Arctic Cyber
Anthropology
http://home.worldonline.dk/~nbc/
A directory of links on the "19th Century America west of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers
http://homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/oldwest/oldwest.htm
Comparative Costs: 19th
Century & Today
Calculate the today's value of money during treaty offers.
http://i.bigchalk.com/U/8-020906/&Userid
Gold of El Dorado
Before European Invasion, Columbia used gold for many
things, and even traded it for salt!
http://www.humanities-interactive.org/newworld/eldorado/index.html
Unknown Mexico
In the Sierra Madres, mysterious underground tombs tell of
ancient civilizations shrouded in secrecy.
http://www.humanities-interactive.org/unknown/index.html
Lewis and
Clark Web Site
From the Montana Historical Society
http://www.discoveringmontana.com/
Historical
Text Archive
http://historicaltextarchive.com/links.php
Journey to
New Worlds: Exploration of Space and Hawaiian Voyaging
Compare ancient Polynesian voyagers with today's modern
astronauts in this interactive journey.
http://www.thinkquest.org/l
My America
This interactive field trip includes American
Indians, Crazy Horse, Reservation Map, Eagles and Buffalo, Wild Horses, and more
http://www.field-trips.org/tours/ss/america/_tourlaunch1.htm
NATIONAL ARCHEOLOGICAL
DATABASE
Communications network for the archeological and historic
preservation community--
http://www.cast.uark.edu/other/nps/nadb/
Collapse...Why Do
Civilizations fall?
The history of humankind has been marked by patterns of
growth and decline.
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/collapse/
At Home on the French
Frontier
Native Americans in Illinois...1700-1800
http://museum.state.il.us/exhibits/athome/1700/sideby/index.html
First
Nations Histories
Click on a tribe name for some general information.
http://www.tolatsga.org/Compacts.html
AmDocs:
Documents for the Study of American History
A directory of primary documents from 1492-today available
on the Web. Includes documents from Columbus, the Iroquois Constitution, the Greenville Treaty, Chief Seattle's speech,
and more.
http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html
The Lost Gold of Devil's
Tower
Fact or Fiction? Legend tells of a cavern filled with
gold.
http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/dtgold.htm
Timucuan Ecological and
Historical Preserve
Ecologically-valuable salt marshes and
historically-significant cultural artifacts are on display at Florida's Timucuan Preserve. Video format :-)
http://pbs-afg.virage.com/
CELEBRATING
LIFE: THANKSGIVING
The Hopi Elders tell us that "Hopi believe all life
on our earth lives and goes by life cycles;
http://www.timesoft.com/hopi/spiritual/thankgiv.htm
Map of Turtle Island About
1500 AD
Native North Americans and where they lived.
http://rosecity.net/tears/trail/turtle.html
The Canadian
West
How did Westward expansion play out in what is now the
Canadian provinces. and how did it impact the future of the land and the peoples living there?
http://www.archives.ca/05/0529/052901_e.html
Heritage
Preservation
Heritage Preservation, Inc. in partnership with the
Institute of Museum and Library Services and with major funding from the Getty Grant Program will assess the condition
of collections in the nation's museums, libraries, archives, and historical societies every four years.
http://www.heritagepreservation.org
Moundville -
The Fall of Society
When the explorer Hernando de Soto traveled through the
Alabama area, the Moundville Indians were gone, the reason is still uncertain. Video format :-)
http://pbs-afg.virage.com/
Archaeology
in Nova Scotia
Archaeology sites beginning with precontact 11000B.C.
http://museum.gov.ns.ca/arch/sites.htm
Idaho's Wild
Rivers - The Salmon
The Salmon River is steeped in human history, from Native
Americans to Lewis and Clark to early settlers. Video format :-)
http://pbs-afg.virage.com/
On This Date
in North American Indian
One of the most popular American Indian sites on the web
http://members.tripod.com/~PHILKON
Caribou
Crossing
To the Gwich’in people of Alaska and Canada, life is
impossible to imagine life without caribou
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/radiox/caribou/index.html
Compact
History
When complete these Histories will encompass approximately
240 tribal histories (contact to 1900).
http://www.dickshovel.com/up.html
inuksuks
Inuit families sometimes built stone piles, often in the shape of humans with
outstretched arms.
http://www.histori.ca/
Tahtonka:
the Plains Indians and their Buffalo Culture
This video covers three hundred years of Plains Indians
history from the pre-horse period through the tragedy at Wounded Knee in 1890. It features Ben Black Elk, son of the
revered Holy Man of Black Elk Speaks.
http://www.mediarights.org/search/fil_detail.php?fil_id=01653
The Trial of
Standing Bear
In the saga of
our struggle for
basic Native American rights, this decision still holds significance
http://www.mediarights.org/search/fil_detail.php?fil_id=01694
A simple and unbiased database representing great
prayers of all cultures
and traditions."
http://www.worldprayers.org/
history wired
A virtual tour of selected objects from the vast collections of the
National Museum of American History
http://historywired.si.edu/index.html
La Ofrenda:
The Days of the Dead
In Mexico, the
first days of November are the time when the souls of the dead come to visit the
living
http://www.mediarights.org/search/fil_detail.php?fil_id=01228
Louis Riel
300
Métis, led by Riel, clashed with the North West Mounted Police, touchinging off the Northwest Rebellion.
http://www.histori.ca/h
"Peacemaker"
Features Gordon Tootoosis online.
http://www.histori.ca/
Native
American Heritage Initiative
Working to address civil rights and heritage issues
related to the indigenous peoples of the North America.
http://ndnrights.org/nahi/
Learn about the People who
met Columbus
Haiti:
Overview Paper on Taino Arawaks
http://www.webster.edu/
MAYA!
An interactive lesson on
Native mathematics and culture!
http://www.niti.org/mayan/
Geology of Pipestone National Monument
The story, of this stone and the pipes made from it spans four centuries of Plains Indian life.
http://www.aqd.nps.gov/grd/parks/pipe/index.htm
The History of Mesomerica-Mexico
for kids~
Around 1200 BC, the Olmecs formed the first large Mesoamerican culture.
http://explora.presidencia.gob.mx/p
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