University of Oregon
Mapping History Project : Native American Tribes: 1783
This is a simple map showing where Native American tribes were established in 1783 in the new United States.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: United States History Map: Indians
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...
Other
Tn Gen Web Project: Indian Land Cessions in the American Southeast
Detailed maps of Indian land cessions of the Indians in the Southeast.
State of Florida
Florida Historical Resources: Prehistoric Native Americans of Florida
What peoples inhabited Florida in prehistoric times? Accompanied by a map, this text based article focuses on the earliest Native Americansliving in the region.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Mapping Initial Encounters
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.
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Mapping the New World
[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...
Other
Southern Ute Indian Tribe: Southern Ute Tribal History
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...
Other
Pre Contact Culture Areas (Map)
This excellent map shows where different tribes were before first contact, links to related information.
Teacher Oz
Teacher Oz: History of the Lone Star State Texas
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,...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Transatlantic Trade
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...
Nebraska Studies
Nebraska Studies
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,...
Other
Montana Indian Nations
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Decolonizing the Map: Creating the Indigenous Mapping Collective
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...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Puritan New England: Massachusetts Bay
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,...
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: Journeys West
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?"
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: The Great Serpent Mound, 1892
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.
Other
Historic Trails: Oregon/california Trails
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.