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A
Capsule History of Tobacco
Huron Indian myth has it that in ancient times,
when the land was barren and the people were starving, the Great Spirit
sent forth a woman to save humanity. As she traveled over the world, everywhere
her right hand touched the soil, there grew potatoes. And everywhere her
left hand touched the soil, there grew corn. And when the world was rich
and fertile, she sat down and rested. When she arose, there grew tobacco
. . .
http://www.tobacco.org/History/Tobacco_History.html
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American
Truths
To avoid repeating or continuing the tragedies of
'History,' we must realize that today's controversies, confusions, and
conflicts are parallel-to, continuations-of, and legacies-from our Common
Past.
http://www.americantruths.com/who.html
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The
Canadian Canoe Museum
The Largest collection of Canoes and Kayaks showing the history of Canada's
Indigenous People
http://www.canoemuseum.net/
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The Curtis Collection
The Curtis Collection has ownership of the world's largest, most extensive
collections of Copper Photogravure Plates ever produced or assembled.
These Copper Photogravure Plates represent the life work of Edward Sheriff
Curtis and his massive documentation of Native Americans, "The North
America Indian". The plates are both historic documentation of Native
Americans and priceless artifacts.
http://www.curtis-collection.com/
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"Edward
S. Curtis's The North American Indian: Photographic Images"
In 1998, Northwestern University Library was awarded a grant from the
Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition to
support the digitization of all of the illustrations contained in the
volumes and portfolios of its copy of The North American Indian. Northwestern
also created detailed indexing that permits retrieval of the images by
personal name, tribal affiliation, geocultural region, and subject
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/curthome.html
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History
Quiz - Did you know?
Did
High School History Prepare You to Take This Test...
Based on information in Lies My Teacher Told Me, here are 23 questions
to test your knowledge of the quirks and quarks of American history.
http://stork.history.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/quiz.pl/ask/quest.html
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Images
of Native Americans
The Bancroft Library presents "Images of Native
Americans," a digital companion to an exhibit of rare books, photographs,
illustrations, and other archival and manuscript materials that debuted
in the Fall of 2000, to celebrate the acquisition of the University of
California, Berkeley Library's nine millionth volume.
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/nativeamericans/index2.html
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Keepers
of the Treasures
The Keepers
of the Treasures is a cultural council of American Indians, Alaska Natives
and Native Hawaiians who preserve, affirm, and celebrate their cultures
through traditions and programs that maintain their native languages and
lifeways.
http://www.nps.gov/history/crdi/publications/Keepers.htm
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Lies My Teacher Told
Me
American history is full of fantastic
and important stories. These stories have the power to spellbind audiences,
even audiences of difficult seventh graders. Yet they sleep through the
classes that present it. What has gone wrong?
http://www.uvm.edu/~jloewen/
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Native
American History Photos
"This collection of historical photographs is provided with the permission
of Facts on File, Inc., and is a comprehensive collection of images of
Native American people. The collection is arranged chronologically from
the prehistoric period and the Paleo-Indians to 1990 and the appointment
of R. Richard West as director of the National Museum of the American
Indian. The collection includes information and images which describe
the lifeways of various tribes and include historical entries for
particular Indian groups. Narrative is
provided that provides the historical and cultural background describing
the event, person, or subject presented."
http://www.csulb.edu/colleges/cla/departments/americanindianstudies/faculty/trj/nae/
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Not
Just for Kids! A Thanksgiving Lesson Plan
For an Indian, who is also a school teacher,
Thanksgiving was never an easy holiday for me to deal with in class. I
sometimes have felt like I learned too much about "the Pilgrims and
the Indians." Every year I have been faced with the professional
and moral dilemma of just how to be honest and informative with my children
at Thanksgiving without passing on historical distortions, and racial
and cultural stereotypes.
http://www.night.net/thanksgiving/lesson-plan.html
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PETROGLYPHS.US
Welcome to PETROGLYPHS.US This site is operated by avocational archaeologist
Donald Austin to promote appreciation for prehistoric Native American
pictographs and petroglyphs. I believe these ancient sites should be protected
from destruction and should be appreciated for the beautiful prehistoric
art they represent. The best way to protect these sites is with the cooperation
of an informed and enlightened public. Petroglyphs
are also called carved rock, Indian writing, picture writing and rock
graphics. The ancient images shown on these pages were created by the
Anasazi, Shoshone, Sinagua, Yuman, Kumeyaay, Hohokam, Ute, Fremont, Mohave,
Paiute and Desert Culture people who lived in the prehistoric Southwest
and Great Basin. This page contains links to my photographs of rock art.
I've put several captioned photos from each site on separate pages for
your ease of viewing. Each page may take a few minutes to download.
http://www.petroglyphs.us/
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Promontory
Cave Moccasins:
A Save America's Treasures conservation project
at the Utah Museum of Natural History.
http://www.umnh.utah.edu/museum/departments/anthropology/sat.html
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Welcome
to the Treaty Index Series
This Index Series has been created by Timm Severud
(aka Ondamitag/Host Onda). I have a passion for this subject matter, because
in the process of creating the Treaty Text Files in the Treaty Library
on AOL, I gained a different insight on history. The treaties talk to
the attitudes of peoples of those times.
http://hometown.aol.com/Ondamitag/index.html
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Upper
Midwest Rock Art Research Association
The Upper Midwest Rock Art Research Association
is dedicated to publicizing the petroglyph and pictograph research being
conducted in the Upper Midwest of the United States, including - but not
limited to - Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North and South Dakota.
http://www.tcinternet.net/users/cbailey/index.htm
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US
Treaties With Indians
This is a major treaty site. Has an interesting
graph of the results of many of the early treaties
http://www.wickiup.com/wickiup/treaty/trty1776.html
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Wampum:
Beads, Belts, & Repatriation
Wampum beads are used to make wampum strings and wampum belts, which have
very important spiritual, political, and cultural meaning to the Haudenosaunee.
Wampum strings are used in Haudenosaunee Ceremonies, and they are used
to mark the importance of events and meetings.
http://hometown.aol.com/graydeer/WAMPUM.HTM
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Bosque
Redondo
When you say "Bosque Redondo" it
has a melodious, pleasant sound, but the reality is just the opposite.
It was the scene of one of the saddest events in the nation's history.
http://www.southernnewmexico.com/snm/redondo.html
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Burial
On The Trail
Tradition and heritage run deep in the collective souls of the Five Civilized
Tribes. Centuries before European contact these tribes built communities,
developed agricultural economies and created complex tribal governments.
The winds of change began to blow and life as they knew it ended as European
settlers invaded their nations.
http://fivetribes.com/burial_on_the_trail.htm
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The
Dakota Conflict Trials of 1862
The hanging, following trials which condemned
over three hundred participants in the 1862 Dakota Conflict, stands as
the largest mass execution in American history. Only the unpopular intervention
of President Lincoln saved 265 other Dakota from the fate met by the less
fortunate thirty-eight. The mass hanging was the concluding scene in the
opening chapter of a story of American-Sioux conflict that would not end
until the Seventh Calvary completed its massacre at Wounded Knee, South
Dakota, on December 29, 1890.
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/dakota/dakota.html
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DAKOTA
EXILE
On the day after Christmas 1862, the United States
hanged 38 Dakota men in Mankato, Minnesota and drove a people out of the
state. The heroic story of their brave struggle to survive is told by
the Dakota themselves in DAKOTA EXILE - a sequel to the critically acclaimed
KTCA documentary, THE DAKOTA CONFLICT.
http://www.mnvideovault.org/search_results.php?q=dakota+exile
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Great
Peace of 1701
Listen To the CBC Story of the Signing of the Great Peace of Montreal
http://radio.cbc.ca/news/w6docs/peace/default.html
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The
Long Walk - the 300-mile, forced walk to exile in New Mexico.
The Diné, or Navajo as they were called by the Spanish, share a
common Athabascan ancestry with the Apache. The Diné emulated the
Pueblo, shedding their animal skin clothing for cotton and learning quickly
to farm. They settled in, herding sheep and growing corn in the canyons
and mesas between the Rio Grande and the Grand Canyon.
http://www.viewzone.com/day3w.html
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Minnesota's
Uncivil War
A war fought in the Minnesota River valley back
in 1862 still leaves scars today. On one side were the Dakota Indians.
On the other, settlers and the U.S. government. Hundreds of people died
on both sides of the five-week long war. It lead to the largest mass execution
in U.S. history, when 38 Dakota were hanged in Mankato.
http://news.mpr.org/features/200209/23_steilm_1862-m/index.shtml
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Sandy
Lake Tragedy
Listen to the story of the Sandy Lake Tragedy
http://www.wisconsinstories.org/ram/season1/native/sandylake.ram
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Spirit
Warriors - Little Bighorn Aboriginal Monument
As an element
of the Aboriginal Memorial, the Spirit Warriors sculpture will occupy
a prominent position on the northwest facing outer ring of the ceremonial
circle. The sculpture is envisioned as a two-dimensional line drawing
framed by the walls of the memorial and etched against the high prairie
landscape and the big Montana sky. The sculpture is meant to convey the
living spirit of three mounted warriors racing free across the plains.
http://www.sisterwolf.com/sculpture/index.html
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Tears in the Sand
Rocky Mountain PBS brings you one of the most comprehensive documentaries
available on the Sand Creek Massacre. Our producer tells you the inside
story with the help of Southern Cheyenne tribal members.
http://www.krma.org/tears/
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Treaty
of Fort Laramie, 1851
Articles of a treaty made and concluded
at Fort Laramie, in the Indian Territory, between D. D. Mitchell, superintendent
of Indian affairs, and Thomas Fitzpatrick, Indian agent, commissioners
specially appointed and authorized by the President of the United States,
of the first part, and the chiefs, headmen, and braves of the following
Indian nations, residing south of the Missouri River, east of the Rocky
Mountains, and north of the lines of Texas and New Mexico, viz, the Sioux
or Dahcotahs, Cheyennes, Arrapahoes, Crows, Assinaboines, Gros-Ventre
Mandans, and Arrickaras, parties of the second part, on the seventeenth
day of September, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. (a)
http://www.canku-luta.org/PineRidge/laramie_treaty.html
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Two
Row Wampum Treaty Info
The Two Row Wampum Belt says:
"This symbolizes the agreement under which the Iroquois/Haudenosaunee
welcomed the white peoples to their lands. 'We will NOT be like father
and son, but like brothers. These TWO ROWS will symbolize vessels, travelling
down the same river together. One will be for the Original People, their
laws, their customs, and the other for the European people and their laws
and customs. We will each travel the river together, but each in our own
boat. And neither of us will try to steer the other's vessel.'" The
agreement has been kept by the Iroquois/Haudenosaunee to this date.
http://members.aol.com/Miketben/Miketben.htm
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