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American Indian Heritage Month

Native American Resources

  • Founding DocumentsAmerican Indians

    A modest database of websites pertaining to Native American history, culture, and research organized by the MCPS Teaching American History grant and Center for History and New Media at George Mason University

  • Blue FlagAmerican Indians of the Pacific Northwest

    The Library of Congress, American Memory, and University of Washington present more than 2,300 photographs and 7,700 pages of text illustrate the everyday lives of American Indians in the Northwest Coast and Plateau regions of the Pacific Northwest on this website. The materials illuminate the American Indians' housing, clothing, crafts, education, employment, transportation, and other aspects of everyday life

  • Lakota Winter Counts

    This website features an online exhibit displaying, explaining, and interpreting the Lakota pictorial histories known as winter counts. The website features a searchable database of images, a documentary about Lakota history and culture, video interviews with Lakota people, and a teacher's guide.

  •  Founding DocumentsNative Americans

    Video of a lecture given by Buck Woodard of the College of William and Mary's American Indian Resource Center. A lecture on Native American history and culture given for the Teaching American History grant in Loudoun County, VA

  • Founding DocumentsNative Americans in Film

    Video of a lecture given by Professor Paula Petrik of George Mason Univeristy for the Teaching American History grant. Dr. Petrik discusses the use of film to teach about Native Americans.

  • Indian ResourcesAmerican Indian Resource Center

    The home page of William and Mary's American Indian Resource Center with many different resources and links to past projects

  • Images of Native Americans

    European interpretations of Native Americans, images of popular culture, literary and political observations, and artistic representations are reflected in the more than 60 items available on this website from the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley

  • The Earliest Americans

    A National Park Service: Archeology Program website dedicated to Native American people, culture, and history including landmarks, a timeline, and resources organized by region

  • StarWoodland Cultural Center

    An online exhibit and museum designed to "protect, promote, interpret, and present the history, language, intellect and cultural heritage of the Anishinaabe and Onkwehon:we"

  • StarClose Encounters of the First Kind, 1585-1767

    Maps, images, and documents relating to the first encounters of the English settlers and explorers with Native Americans

  • Indigenous Studies WWW Virtual Library

    An extensive listing of Native American sites

 
 

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