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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Historic Indian Tribes of Alabama

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson will focus on researching, analyzing, and comparing the culture of four Indian tribes from Alabama's history. The rich culture of the Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, and Choctaw Indian tribes contributed to the rich history of...
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Alabama Humanities Foundation

Encyclopedia of Alabama: Benjamin Hawkins

For Students 9th - 10th
Benjamin Hawkins is featured in this brief biography highlighting his work on behalf of the U.S. government in working with the Southeastern Indians from 1796-1816.
Handout
Alabama Humanities Foundation

Encyclopedia of Alabama: Creeks in Alabama

For Students 9th - 10th
The Creek Indians, native to Alabama are featured in this brief historical overview.
Handout
Alabama Humanities Foundation

Encyclopedia of Alabama: Peoples of Alabama: Cherokees of Alabama

For Students 9th - 10th
A history of the Cherokees in Alabama, including their contributions to Alabama culture and society,
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Alabama Humanities Foundation

Encyclopedia of Alabama: Creeks in Alabama

For Students 9th - 10th
The Creek Indians, native to Alabama are featured in this brief historical overview.
Handout
Ancestry

Rootsweb: The Creek War of 1813 and 1814

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource proposes to give as accurate an account as can now be obtained from written and printed records, from traditions, and from personal observation, of that portion of American history known as the Creek War of 1813 and 1814.
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Alabama Humanities Foundation

Encyclopedia of Alabama: James Adair

For Students 9th - 10th
Author of the southeastern Native Americans in the eighteenth century and deerskin tradesman in the same region, James Adair is featured in this brief biography.
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Ancestry

Rootsweb: Terrible Massacre at Fort Mims

For Students 9th - 10th
This chapter from an online book on the history of Alabama focuses on the massacre at Fort Mims.
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Other

Explore Southern History: The Creek War of 1813 1814 in Al, Ga & Fl

For Students 9th - 10th
On July 27, 1813, the Mississippi Territorial Militia intervened in a civil war that had been raging within the Creek Nation in Alabama and Georgia. The militia's attack on a Creek supply train at Burnt Corn Creek in Alabama brought the...
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Other

Fort Mims Most Brutal Indian Massacre in Us History

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a detailed summay of the massacre at Fort Mims in 1813, the aftermath, and Fort Mims today.
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Other

Moundville Archaeological Park

For Students 9th - 10th
Great site! Explore a city that was inhabited over 800 years ago by the moundbuilders! Loads of info about these ancient people.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Extra, Extra!! Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Newscast

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This instructional activity will be an interdisciplinary instructional activity that involves both English Language Arts and Social Studies (History). The instructional activity will be primarily technology-based and also project-based...
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Historical Society of Pennsylvania: The Fort Mims Massacre of 1813

For Students 9th - 10th
Many events that occurred during the War of 1812, like so many other periods in American history, are now largely forgotten and unknown to the general public. Atrocities or barbarities perpetrated against the Indians by settlers are well...