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University of Oregon

Mapping History Project : Native American Tribes: 1783

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is a simple map showing where Native American tribes were established in 1783 in the new United States.
Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: United States History Map: Indians

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive site showing the Native American culture areas and the major tribes living in those areas before the arrival of the Europeans. Click to find out more about Indians living in those area and find a game that challenges you...
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Other

Tn Gen Web Project: Indian Land Cessions in the American Southeast

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed maps of Indian land cessions of the Indians in the Southeast.
Handout
State of Florida

Florida Historical Resources: Prehistoric Native Americans of Florida

For Students 9th - 10th
What peoples inhabited Florida in prehistoric times? Accompanied by a map, this text based article focuses on the earliest Native Americansliving in the region.
Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Mapping Initial Encounters

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Columbus' arrival laid the basis for encounters between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans. This unit examines how these contacts altered the way of life of peoples around the globe.
Lesson Plan
Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Mapping the New World

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Young scholars read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson plan allows students study two 17th-century maps of Virginia and...
Website
Other

Southern Ute Indian Tribe: Southern Ute Tribal History

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides links to pages discussing the history of the Southern Ute. Includes the following links: an introduction to the history of the Utes, chronology of Ute history, information on historical Ute leaders, maps of Ute territory, and...
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Other

Pre Contact Culture Areas (Map)

For Students 9th - 10th
This excellent map shows where different tribes were before first contact, links to related information.
Website
Teacher Oz

Teacher Oz: History of the Lone Star State Texas

For Students 9th - 10th
A huge collection of links to resources about the history of Texas. As this is an older web page, some of the links no longer work. Topics covered include primary resources, timelines, history sites, flags, maps, landmarks, monuments,...
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Transatlantic Trade

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the Transatlantic Trade whereby Europe, Africa, and the America's engaged in a network of people, raw materials, finished goods, merchants, and sailors bringing wealth to colonial empires. The consequences of the...
Website
Nebraska Studies

Nebraska Studies

For Students 9th - 10th
A large site that tracks the history of the Nebraska area begins with the formation of the earth, moves through the earliest human activity in Nebraska, and then through proto-historical and historical Nebraska. The Kansas-Nebraska Act,...
Website
Other

Montana Indian Nations

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use this site to learn about several Indian reservations in Montana at this easy to use site. Just click on a Native American group on the map for more information about them.
Article
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Decolonizing the Map: Creating the Indigenous Mapping Collective

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For many Indigenous communities, mapping plays a large role in reclaiming their lands. Mapping is not new to Indigenous peoples, in fact, some of the world's earliest maps can be seen in cave paintings or heard in the stories that have...
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Puritan New England: Massachusetts Bay

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the Puritans who established the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the New Haven Colony and Rhode Island. The internal and external struggles with these colonies is discussed including the Salem Witch Trials, King Philip's War,...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Teachers: Journeys West

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A series of lessons utilizing primary texts, including narratives, photographs, and maps, through which learners explore the following question: "What motivated thousands of people to journey west during the 1800s?"
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: The Great Serpent Mound, 1892

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1892 of an overhead view of the Great Serpent Mound, constructed along Bushy Creek by ancient Native Americans in what is now Ohio.
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Other

Historic Trails: Oregon/california Trails

For Students 3rd - 8th
Find a map of the Oregon Trail and California Trail and click Historical Trails tab to discover the hardships and daily grind of traveling on the Oregon Trail.