Americas

The Americas

Native American sites
Agayuliyararput: Our Way of Making Prayer-The Living Tradition of Yup'ik Masks: http://www.si.umich.edu/chico/yupik/ancestor.html
"Today close to 20,000 Yup'ik Eskimos make their home in the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta of southwestern Alaska. The Bering Sea coast supports abundant resources, including sea and land mammals, waterfowl, and fish. Prehistorically, this abundance supported the development and spread of Inuit culture. Some scholars have called the coast the "cradle of Eskimo civilization."
Albeza: http://www.ableza.org/
"Ableza is a Native American Arts and Media Institute in San Jose, CA. We are dedicated to promoting, preserving and protecting traditional and contemporary arts by Native American Peoples."
Alutiiq Museum & Archaeological Repository: http://www.alutiiqmuseum.com/index.html
American Indians: http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/DeerParkES/kids/indianfacts/indians.htm
Created by second grade students
American Indians-Cherokee, Apache, Navajo, Cheyenne, Pueblo, Tribes, Sioux, Blackfoot, George: http://www.thewildwest.org/native_american/index.html
American Indians and the Natural World:
http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmnh/exhibits/north-south-east-west/
American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Digital Collection: http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/
Anasazi: Canyonlands: http://raysweb.net/canyonlands/pages/anasazi.html
Ancient buffalo shields returned to Navajo Nation: http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Aug/08182003/utah/84915.asp
Anishinabe - Ojibwe - Chippewa: Culture of an Indian Nation: http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=369
Arctic Studies Center at the Smithsonian: http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/
The Art of Being Kuna: Layers of Meaning Among the Kuna of Panama: http://www.conexus.si.edu/kuna/index.htm
The Brothertown Indians of Wisconsin: http://www.uwec.edu/greider/Indigenous/Summer.2001.projects/Boucher.Julie/brother
town_indians_of_wisconsin.htm
Canku Ota (Many Paths)-An Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America: http://www.turtletrack.org/
The Cherokee "Trail of Tears" 1838-1839: http://www.rosecity.net/tears/
Circle of Stories: http://www.pbs.org/circleofstories/
Civilization.CA-Stones Unturned: http://www.civilisations.ca/aborig/stones/engfrm.htm
"The Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation (CMCC) plays a critical role in making Canadians aware and proud of their heritage and their national identity."
Compact Histories: http://www.tolatsga.org/Compacts.html
45 different Indian Nations, about 200 different tribes, are recorded on the site. The histories include information on culture and current status of the different tribal groups. These histories are gathered from the oral traditions of the
different groups.
Creek Indians: http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/creek.htm
Detroit Institute of Art-Native American Art: http://www.dia.org/collections/aonwc/nativeamericanart/nativeamericanart.html
Do's and Don'ts-Appropriate Methods When Teaching About Native American Peoples: http://www.ableza.org/dodont.html
Earth Songs: http://www.ohwejagehka.com/songs.htm
from Iroquois communities
Educational Resources on Wisconsin Indian Nations: http://www.fdl.uwc.edu/windian/
Finding New Voices: Native American Poets: http://www.cis.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1991/4/91.04.01.x.html
The First Americans: http://www.germantown.k12.il.us/html/intro.html
First Americans-Native American Indian Studies for Grade Schoolers: http://www.u.arizona.edu/ic/kmartin/School/amer3.htm
Flags of the Native Peoples of the United States: http://users.aol.com/Donh523/navapage/
Gods, Heroes, and Myths - Mythologies of various Native American lands:
http://www.gods-heros-myth.com/namerican/asymbols.html
Garvies Point Museum and Preserve: http://www.liglobal.com/t_i/attractions/museums/garvies/
Greasy Grass Native American Graphics and Old West Web Graphics: http://www.thegreasygrass.com/
Hopi-The Corn People: http://www.viewzone.com/day5a.html
In the Time of The Old Ones (Webquest): http://itdc.sbcss.k12.ca.us/curriculum/oldones.html
The Navajo people (who call themselves Dineh) are known for their close relationship with all forms of life and their desire to live in balance with nature. They are famous for many arts, most especially for their weaving. The Navajo believe that weaving is a gift from the spirit Spider Woman. Students will explore and experience the Navajo Indians' close relationship with the land they lived on by identifying why the Navajo wrote legends about the environment and how they showed it in their rugs and blankets, designing a geometric rug pattern to symbolize a natural resource or part of the environment, and creating a legend about how that environmental object came into being.
Hot List on Native Americans: http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listnativeabc.html
Images of Native Americas: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/nativeamericans/
The Bancroft Library draws on its special collection on the history of California and the American West for this exhibition, which consists of "illustrations from rare books, pamphlets, journals, pulp magazines, newspapers, and ephemera in addition to selections of original photographs, including stereographs, lantern slides, and cyanotypes."
Indian Country Wisconsin: http://www.mpm.edu/wirp/
Indian Cultures: http://www.germantown.k12.il.us/html/culture.html
Indian Land Lost in Wisconsin: http://www.uwec.edu/geography/Ivogeler/w188/i34.htm
Indian Mounds of Mississippi: http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/mounds/
Joanne Shenandoah: http://208.16.194.119/video/joanne/pvp.wmv
Video
Lacrosse:An Iroquois Tradition: http://www.oneida-nation.net/lacrosse.html
Many Pasts: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/manypasts/
McClung Museum-Singing the Clay-Pueblo Pottery of the Southwest Yesterday and Today: http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/specex/singclay/singclay.htm
Museum of Indian Arts & Culture: http://www.miaclab.org/exhibits/index.html
The National congress of American Indians: http://www.ncai.org/indexto.asp
Founded in 1944, it is the oldest and largest tribal government organization in the United States. NCAI serves as a forum for consensus-based policy development among its membership of over 250 tribal governments from every region of the country. NCAI's mission is to inform the public and the federal government on tribal self-government, treaty rights, and a broad range of federal policy issues
affecting tribal governments.
National Portrait Gallery: http://www.npg.si.edu/
Native American Chart: http://www.mce.k12tn.net/indians/navigation/native_american_chart.htm
Native American Cyberhunt: http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/pgore/native_american_cyberhunt.htm
Mrs. Gore's Class-2nd Grade Native American "Cyberhunt"
Native American Cultures Across the U.S.: http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=347
Native Americans: http://www.mce.k12tn.net/indians/index.htm
Native Americans and Children's Literature: http://www.carolhurst.com/subjects/nativeamericans.html
Native American Indian Resources: http://dewey.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/amind.html
Native American-Internet Resources: http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/native.htm
Native American Virtual Cultural Center: http://209.233.186.60/new_navcc.html
NativeTech:Native American Technology and Art: http://www.nativetech.org/
"An internet resource for indigenous ethno-technology focusing on the arts of Eastern Woodland Indian Peoples, providing historical & contemporary background with instructional how-to's & references"
Native Web: http://www.nativeweb.org/
Native Word of the Day: http://www.knba.org/knba_nwod_archives.shtm
Not 'Indians,' Many Tribes: Native American Diversity: http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=324
Powhatan, Sioux and Pueblo-An Online Quiz: http://www.quia.com/pop/25175.html
ProTeacher-United States Lesson Plans: http://www.proteacher.com/090019.shtml
Sioux Heritage: http://www.lakhota.com/
Southwest Native Americans: http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/swest.htm
The Study of Native Americans: http://inkido.indiana.edu/w310work/romac/native.htm
Teaching Young Children about Native Americans: http://ericeece.org/pubs/digests/1996/reese96.html
Time and the River - A History of the Saint Croix: http://www.nps.gov/sacn/hrs/hrs.htm
Traditions and Languages of Three Native Cultures: Tlingit, Lakota, & Cherokee: http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=378
Treaties Between the United States and Native Americans - The Avalon Project at Yale Law School:
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/ntreaty/ntreaty.htm
Turtle Tracks - Native American Youth Newsletter: http://www.turtle-tracks.org/
Virginia's Indians, Past & Present: http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/vaindians.htm
Virtual Jamestown: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/vcdh/jamestown/
Web Quest: Plains Indians and the American Buffalo: http://www.ccs.k12.va.us/SCHOOLS/GREENBRIER/WebQuests/PlainsIndians.html
Wisconsin Electronic Reader Image Galleries:
http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/WIReader/Galleries/Indians.html
Wisconsin Indian Heritage Education 642: http://www.fdl.uwc.edu/windian/heritage.htm
Wisconsin Powwow Video: http://www.folkways.si.edu/48004.htm

Cabeza de Vaca and La relacion On-Line: http://www.library.txstate.edu/swwc/cdv/index.html
Comprehensive web archive devoted to the Spanish explorer. Digital access to the 1555 edition of La relacion, full-text academic essays, art, bibliographies, and more - Texas State University-San Marcos

A Colonial Family and Community: http://www.hfmgv.org/education/smartfun/colonial/intro/intro.html

Early Americas Digital Archive: http://www.mith2.umd.edu:8080/eada/index.jsp
A "collection of electronic texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820." Includes texts from the explorers, settlers, political and religious leaders, etc.

Salem Witch Trials
National Geographic - Salem Witch Hunt - Interactive: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/salem/?
"Are you a witch? Why won't you confess?!" This National Geographic grim game is based on the 1692 Massachusetts trials—your answers could be the death of you.

American Revolution
NPR: George Washington's Rules of Civility: http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_1248919.html
George Washington's Rules of Civility (Memory): American Treasures of the Library of Congress: http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm077.html
George Washington's Papers at the Library of Congress:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mgw1&fileName=mgw1a/gwpage001.db&recNum=0

The Founders' Constitution: http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/
The constitution, annotated line by line with links to documents and letters explaining the intellectual and legal background and the founders' reasoning behind the words they chose.

Oregon Trail
TeacherVision-Oregon Trail Lesson Plan:
http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-2929.html
Technology Integrated Lesson Plan-Oregon Trail: http://www.webhand.com/lagrande/schools/lessonplans/ortrail.html

Lesson Plan-Utah Pioneers: http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/MonsonUnits/jilrad/pioneers.htm

Civil War
American Civil War: http://www.americancivilwar.com/
American Slave Narratives: The University of Virginia's web site with short excerpts from interviews of former slaves.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html
American Strategy: http://www.americanstrategy.org/foundations/unity2.html
Civil War Women-Online Archival Collections at Duke University: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/civil-war-women.html
Crisis at Fort Sumter: http://www.tulane.edu/~latner/CrisisMain.html
Education at HarpWeek.com: http://education.harpweek.com/Default.htm
Eve of the Civil War: Factory vs. Plantation in the North and South: http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=289
General R. E. Lee's War-Horses, Traveller And Lucy Long: http://www.civilwarhome.com/leeshorses.htm
History of the American Saddlebred: http://www.trot.org/history.htm
Horses in History: http://cavalry.org/history.htm
Primary Documents related to US Slavery:
http://www.bungi.com/cfip/slavery.htm
Traveller: http://cavalry.org/traveller.htm
Valley of the Shadow-Two Communities in the American Civil War: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/
Vermont Civil War Units: http://www.vermontcivilwar.org/units.shtml

Harriet Tubman
HARRIET - The Moses of Her People: http://docsouth.unc.edu/harriet/harriet.html
Harriet Tubman: http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/tubman.htm
Harriet Tubman Biography: http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_harriet_tubman.htm
Harriet Tubman Quotations: http://womenshistory.about.com/library/qu/blqutubm.htm

Underground Railroad
Music and the Underground Railroad:
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/cuesheet/9899/undergroundrr.html
National Geographic's Web Site on the Underground Railroad:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/j1.html

The History of Jim Crow: www.jimcrowhistory.org
This has lesson plans and information as well as graphics for teaching this painful era in American history.

Reparations
America's Civil War-Aftermath: http://fredericksburg.com/CivilWar/Teaching/Education/Aftermath_students
North Carolina Black Soldiers to the Freedman's Bureau:
http://www.inform.umd.edu/hist/Freedman/roanoke.htm
At the end of the war, black soldiers stationed near Petersburg, Virginia, wrote to the commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau to protest the suffering of their wives, children, and parents at a settlement on Roanoke Island.
NPR-'Dixie', Present at the Creation: http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/dixie/index.html
NPR-Slave Reparations: http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/racism/010827.reparations.html
NPR-Spirituals: http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1046417
NPR-The Tale of 'Blind Tom' Wiggins: http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/mar/blindtom/index.html
Reconstruction (1866-1877): http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/recon
" Play Chronicles Life of Slave Pianist Who Awed Audiences in 1800s"
Speech by Frederick Douglass about Reconstruction: http://www.blackmask.com/books37c/dougrecon.pdf

1860-1880
The Dakota Experience: Community Values on the Frontier from the South Dakota State Historical Society: http://www.dakotaexperience.org
Audience: Fifth grade to adult
Civic and social life on the Dakota frontier developed out of competing goals and visions. Some came looking for wealth in the mines of the Black Hills. Others sought and found chances to take part in local or territorial government. Missionaries carried their gospel, hoping to replace tribal ways with Christianity. Native Americans sought to maintain their traditional life in the face of change.
Explore this history through online interactives, historical artifacts, photographs, and documents, and interpretive text. Journey to the gold rush town of Deadwood to discover the "real" story of the Old West. Make a magic lantern show to share online with your friends.

The Gilded Age
The following web sites are about the Andrew Carnegie era and the present. The past era has been called "the Gilded Age". It is when concern about monopolies was in the news as Bill Gates and other huge cooperations are in the news today, and the focus was on a consumer society much as today. Another comparison is economic woes and war. Especially, Andrew Carnegie's relations with government is similar to the Halliburton relationship with government today. "Robber Barons" is a Gilded Age term that is being used today regarding Halliburton. This material would be suitable for mature middle school students and high school through college. The underlined terms are good for independent searches.
http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/uscartoons/GAPECartoons.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/gildedage.html
http://bss.sfsu.edu/cherny/gapesites.htm
http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/lectures/lecture04.html
http://www.afn.org/~vetpeace/madness.html
http://econ161.berkeley.edu/Econ_Articles/carnegie/delong_moscow_paper2.html
http://www.geocities.com/mrpizzuto/Robberbarons.html
http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/6379
http://www.participatory-democracy.org/barons.htm
from Carol Seaton: cswriter1@juno.com

The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s: http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html

United States Puzzles
Fun School: http://www.funschool.com/php/games/games_popup.php?g=jpp_usmap
Ben's Guide (6-8)-Interactive Games and Activities:
http://bensguide.gpo.gov/6-8/games/interactive.html
Maps.com-Learn and Play: http://www.maps.com/learn/
States Web Games: http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm

This site began in March 1998 and was created by Janet Luch.
Email to studyplans@yahoo.com.