- American Indian History and
Art - Biographies and portraits of several historic Native Americans
including Sitting Bull, Quanah Parker, Chief Joseph.
- The
American Indian in Tennessee - Traces the last 15,000 years of Native
American occupation of Tennessee, using artifacts from the McClung Museum's
extensive collections. Includes the Duck River Cache, considered the
greatest find in Tennessee archaeology, dating from the Late Mississippian
period (ca. AD 1450).
- American Indian Kids - Historical
look at Native Americans for kids, ages 6-10. Emphasizes Indian family
and community life.
- American Indian Policy Center
- Provides government leaders, policy makers, and the public with accurate
information about the legal and political history of American Indian
nations, and the contemporary situation for American Indians.
- Anadarko Festival
- Historical photographs taken by John C. Chapman during the 1947 Anadarko,
Oklahoma, Indian Festival.
- Ancient American - Archeology
of the Americas Before Columbus. Magazine dedicated to prehistory artifacts
and petrogliphs of the American Continent. A public forum for certified
experts and nonprofessionals alike.
- Brain-Box Digital Archives
- Native American narratives on history and the contemporary culture.
Ojibwe perspectives and resources combine in an important new media
audiovisual archive. Curriculum materials for teachers available online.
- A Brief History
of Oklahoma - A series of articles dealing with all aspects of the
state's history, including the prehistoric native tribes, as well as
those who were compelled to migrate and settle the Indian Territory.
- Cankpe Opi: Wounded
Knee Massacre - Comprehensive historical accounts, Congressional
testimony, and editorial comments on the December, 1890, massacre in
South Dakota.
- Carlisle Indian Industrial
School - Respectfully honors those students and their descendants
who lived the experiment, celebrates with those who prospered from it,
and grieves with those whose lives were diminished by it.
- Charles Lummis's
Crusade Against Indian Boarding Schools - A reporter in New Mexico,
Charles Fletcher Lummis won an precedent setting legal battle in 1892
against a government policy that permitted Indian children to be taken
from their parents.
- Chickasaw Historical Research
Page - Contains primary source material and historical documents
in the history of the Chikasaw people.
- The
Elkus Indian Papers - The California Academy of Sciences Library's
collection of over 3,300 documents related to Indian affairs over the
period 1922-1963, from the estate of Charles de Young Elkus.
- First American Forefathers
- Biographies, pictures and quotations from Native American leaders.
Also has a message board and a selection of quizzes and puzzles.
- First Nations Histories-
An ongoing web project that aims to provide extensive histories of all
major tribes of Native Americans.
- Fort Peck
Assiniboine and Sioux History - Series of articles, with timeline,
about the eastern Montana reservation. Includes an annotated roster
of Sioux and Cheyenne participants in the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
- History of the Northwest
Coast - Significant events and history of the people of the northwest,
from 1774 to present day. Includes journal entries from fur traders,
Indian prophets, and ethnographers.
- Indian Occupation
of Mother Bedford - History of indigenous peoples of south central
Pennsylvania.
- Lakota
Noon At Greasy Grass - Lakota commentary about the Battle at Little
Big Horn, with annotated battle map.
- Looking Back - Historical
essays on the indigenous people of America, describing their society,
culture, and traditions, to honor the past and preserve the future.
- Narragansett Indian Tribe
- Official web site of the Narragansett Indian Tribe of Rhode Island
provides accurate history of the tribe's past and the outlook of its
future.
- Native American Conquest - These
articles, written for teens, serve as a guide through North America
before its Indian cities were destroyed by foreign diseases.
- NPS Tribal Preservation Program
- The United States National Park Service assists Indian tribes in preserving
their historic properties and cultural traditions with training, grants,
and publications. Links to tribal information.
- On This Date in North American
Indian History - 3,000+ historical events, tribal name meanings,
alternate names, Indian moon names, and over 6000 links to other sites
- Paths to Living
History - North American Indian and Indigenous People: A collection
of historical documents, essays, and articles on various topics of Native
American history.
- Plains Indian
History - Portal to American West history sites, with emphasis on
the native tribes such as Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho, and their chiefs,
Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Black Kettle, and others.
- A Positive
Light - Code Talkers, America's Secret Weapon - The Marines might
never have taken Iwo Jima and World War II might have ended differently
without the indecipherable language of the Navajo Code Talkers.
- Southwest
Web Ring - Essays related to southwestern Native American history,
pre-history, and contemporary issues. Includes photo galleries of ancient
southwest ruins.
- The Te-Moak
Shoshone - Commemoration of the 1863 signing of the Ruby Valley
Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the Western Shoshone Indians
and the United States Government. Includes a speech made by Chief Frank
Te-Moke Sr (1903-1994) in 1965 and a link to the original treaty.
- Town
Creek Indian Mound - Information and historic site resources for
the Pee Dee Culture at Town Creek, a regional expression of South Appalachian
Mississippian Tradition, A.D. 1200-1400.
- Trail of Tears - History
and maps of the infamous forced removal of Cherokee, Choctaw, and other
peoples from the southeastern region to Oklahoma.
- Voices
from the Trading Post - Oral history interviews with over fifty
Indian traders of the southwest United States. Contains slide shows,
with a focus on Navajo, Hopi, Zuni reservations, culture, and artifacts.
- The Wampum Chronicles
- New research into Mohawk history, based on historical documentation,
secondary sources, and Mohawk oral tradition.
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