NATIVE AMERICANS INFO
Check out the links below for more information...it might spark some ideas for additional credit pieces in your history packets. Be sure to look at the AC suggestions/questions for this unit.
BACKGROUND INFO
- A zoomable map of "Native American Cultures" for the map we'll do in class
- Full text of Myths of Native Americans by Tim McNeese
- A high-resolution map showing the trails of the Indian Removal
- American Indian and Alaskan Native Populations - from the Centers for Disease Control Office of Minority Health
- CaliforniaPrehistory.com - collects and disseminates research info about early California from the works of "archaeologists, anthropologists, prehistorians and other specialists"
- Information from the National Park Service on the controversy surrounding Kennewick Man
- Index of Native American History Resources by Karen Strom at Hanksville.org
- Native Americans and the Environment at Rice University
- The Smithsonian Institution's Museum of the American Indian
- 500 Nations - an 8-part documentary series covering the history of Native Americans
- The music of 500 Nations
- Teachers Education Institute offers resources about Ishi and the native tribes of California
- NativeAmericans.com - a large collection of information and links
- Native American Languages Net - site that preserves and promotes the languages of indigenous Americans
- Native American History - site by a Scandinavian!
- Info from the United Nations about International Decade of the World's Indigenous People...consider why people think this was important
- Visit the Five Civilized Tribes Museum
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE/TEXTS
- Native American poetry activities (Tewa/Momaday)
- Activities based on Pam Conrad's "Prairie Songs"
U.S. GOVERNMENT & NATIVE AMERICANS
- Thomas Jefferson's beliefs and policies regarding Native Americans at Monticello.org
- "Destroying the Native American Cultures" at the Library of Congress
- James Madison's 2nd Inaugural Address discusses his views on Native Americans
- The Bureau of Indian Affairs - the U.S. government agency responsible for administering and managing the lands of Native Americans within U.S. boundaries (part of the Department of the Interior)
- Text of The Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990 - implemented by the Indian Arts/Crafts Board of the U.S. Department of the Interior
- Many tribal groups have their own regional sites or are part of the national organization of the Johnson O'Malley Program for higher education for Native Americans (view a PPT overview)
- Office of Indian Education Programs site
- A brief history of Seminole-Negro Indian Scouts
- The Presidential Proclamation of National American Indian Heritage Month in 2004
- Several articles about the status of Native Americans who are unable to obtain U.S. passports to travel internationally
NATIONS & THEIR HISTORY
- Official site of the Chickasaw Nation
- Official site of the Seminole Nation
- Official site of the Choctaw Nation
- Official site of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation
- Official Site of the Cherokee Nation
- Searchable records of the Dawes Rolls (1898-1914) at the National Archives
- Viewable images of the Dawes Rolls at the National Archives
- "Enrollment Cards of the Five Civilized Tribes, 1898-1914" from the Kansas State Historical Society
- A sample form from the Cherokee Nation for applying for CDIB (Certificate Degree of Indian Blood)
- A similar sample form from the Chocktaw Nation for CDIB
- A tribal membership/voting form from the Chocktaw Nation
- Timeline of the Seminole Wars
- Scholarly article about "A Legal History of Blood Quantum in Federal Indian Law to 1935" from the South Dakota Law Review (2006)--scroll down to download the article from Stanford Law School
- Utah Native American Church site
PEOPLE & EVENTS
- Biography of Tecumseh at the James Madison Center
- Official site for historic Prophetstown--the settlement made by Tecumseh and the Prophet
- Who was Quanah Parker?
- Who was Joseph Brant?
- Who was William Tecumseh Sherman, and why was he named after a Native American?
- Who were the Haudenosaunee people? And what was the Iroquois Confederacy?
- Jeffrey Amherst and his connection to smallpox and a famous college
- "Chief Pontiac's siege of Detroit" at The Detroit News
- The city of Cahokia, Illinois, and it's connection to Chief Pontiac
- Cahokia Mounds State and National Historic Site is also a UNESCO international historic site
TREATIES & CONFLICTS
- "A Long History of Treaties" at NebraskaStudies.org
- Painting of the signing of the Treaty of Greenville (1795)
- Text of the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851) and (1868) and a map (1868) of the land
- The Marias Massacre (1870)
- The Pequot Thanksgiving Massacre (1637)
- The Long Walk of the Navajos at logoi.com
- Information on the Navajo people and the Long Walk at Nebraska Wesleyan University
- Information on the Washita River Massacre (1868) at PBS's site for The West miniseries
- The Santee Uprising (1862) by the Santee Sioux Tribe, also called the Attack on Fort Ridgely, and connected to the defeat of the Sioux at Wood Lake during the Civil War
- Gen. Winfield Scott's Address to the Cherokee Nation
TRAIL OF TEARS & WOUNDED KNEE
- Article about Jacksonian Democracy and Indian Removal at the Digital History site
- National Public Radio host Sarah Vowell goes to the Trail of Tears (audio also available)
- Trail of Tears National Historical Trail from the National Park Service--check out the map!
- Trail of Tears Commemorative Park in Hopkinsville, Kentucky
- Eyewitness to History's page on the Massacre at Wounded Knee
- The Wounded Knee Museum site
- Senate debate records from 1830 about the Indian Removal Act
- Senate Report 108-310 - "to acknowledge a long history of official depredations and ill-conceived policies by the United States Government ... and offer an apology to all Native Peoples on behalf of the United States"
NATIVE AMERICAN BOARDING SCHOOLS
- Info on Indian boarding schools in relation to a poem by Louise Erdrich
- Info on the Reservation Boarding School System
- Historical Society of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School
- Other research info on the Carlisle Indian Industrial School
- Cherokee Heritage Center in Oklahoma
- Information on the Cherokee Language from the official site of the Cherokee Nation
- Google image search for Indian boarding schools
- Google image search for Carlise Indian School
CANADIAN FIRST NATIONS
- Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development web site (in French & English)
- "The Residential School System Historical Overview" article about the Canadian education system for "Indians"--check out the links for "Key Events," "Statement of Reconciliation," and "Trial Decisions"
- List of "Services for First Nations People" provided by the Canadian government
- INAC's "Kids Stop" site--actually has some cool stuff!
- INAC information about eligibility requirements for services
- INAC database for treaties between native tribes and the Canadian government--check the links for "Multimedia" and "Historic Treaty Information"
- Wikipedia has a collection of external sites listed in its article on the First Nations
- Article about Aleuts who were sent to internment camps during WWII