Native Americans
sites highlighted in GREEN recommended for 7th grade class

Northwest

• American Indians of the Pacific Northwest - UW Digital Collection documents, photographs and maps of Northwest Coast and Plateau Indians at University of Washington: arts, dwellings, essays, work, potlaches, transportation
• American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Library of Congress digital site
• Cayuse Indians: Plateau Indians of Oregon Terr. (Whitman Mission Teacher’s Guide): Iinformation on history, seasonal cycles, trade networks, maps, dwellings and children of the Cayuse Indians
• Early Washington Maps - Washington State digital collection - select Native American Reservations
• History of the Northwest Coast Native first person accounts from 1774-1914, with map, interesting details
• Map of WA state Native American tribes
• Northwest Tribes - list of sites
• Pacific Northwest Coastal Indians by Don Donn history teacher - totem pole, longhouse life, manners, meals, etc.

Specific

• Cayuse and other first people of the Plateau Columbia Plateau from Whitman Museum National Park site - and chapter from Park Handbook
• Clothing Traditions from 3 Cultures of BC Copper and Caribou Inuit (Northwest Territories), the NLaka'pamux (British Columbia Interior) and the Dene (Northern Athapaskans of the Northwest Territories)
• History of Cayuse, Umatilla & Walla Walla Indians
• Northwest Indians - compares coast and inland, housing, food, clothing, etc

Northwest -- Northwest Coast art - Burke Museum

• Haida - Minnesota State
• Northwest shelters

Great Basin

• Great Basin and Plateau
• Great Basin and West Coast shelters
• Ute - Minnesota State U.
• Ute Indian Tribe

Plateau -- Plateau Art - Burke Museum

• Nez Perce - Minnesota U.
• Nez Perce housing

Museums

• Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture with educational resource links
• Museum of History and Industry
• The Royal British Columbia Museum historic totem poles
  • other information on totem poles
  • and how important was the cedar tree to their culture

General

• American Indian History and related issues
• American Indians and the natural world Carnegie Museum exhibit: Tlingit of the Northwest Coast, the Hopi of the Southwest, the Iroquois of the Northeast, and the Lakota of the Plains- living in natural world
• Edward Curtis' North American Indian photographs
• First Nations Histories (geographic overview of histories, individual tribes- only northeast completed)
• Iroquois Confederacy and the US Constitution
• Index to Native America Resources on the internet including art
• KidInfo-Native Americans extensive list of sites
• National Museum of the Native American (Smithsonian)
• Native American Megasites links from Multnoma PL
• Native America Sites including
  • Native American Nations on individual nations
• Native Americans - Internet Resources very comprehensive