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Native American Heritage Month

How do Native American women understand and relate to North American and European history? How about women of mixed heritage? The answers are unique to every individual. Read the work of Native American women authors for some of those answers. FIND OUT MORE »

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Namesake of a Peacekeeper

Statue of Tecumseh at the Naval Academy

Historians have attempted to account for the great admiration that whites had [...] »

Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project

Gelatin silver print, Native American little girl at. . . , Flickr Commons

Tie civics into units involving Native American history using relevant full- [...] »

Oneida Indian Nation: Culture and History

Engraving, Koohassen, guerrier de la nation Oneida, Bonfils, c. 1801, NYPL

Meet the Oneida, and discover their role in the Revolutionary War and War of [...] »

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Three Perspectives on Native American Removal and Westward Expansion

Illustration, Manner of Instructing the Indians, 1835, William Jospeh Snelling

Check out this lesson on arguments surrounding the 1830 forced removal of the [...] »

Resources on Native American History

Negative, [Woman wearing native american clothing. . . ], 1923, LoC

When the resources readily available to you are just not comprehensive enough. [...] »

Building a Class on Native American History

Photo, "2007 Powwow," Cynthia Frankenburg, Smithsonian, Flickr Commons

Museums, colleges, and tribes are invaluable for gathering course-building [...] »

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Early American Artifacts

Splash image early americans

What did people living in what is now known as North America leave behind? [...] »

In Our Own Time: Native American Timekeeping

Photo, Villa of Brule the great hostile Indian camp..., 1891

Pre-Columbian calendars were very different from the ones we use today. Are [...] »

War of Invaders

What do these biased narratives of the French and Indian War tell us? [...] »

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