PBS
Pbs: Indian Territory
This site from PBS provides a short description and map of "the Indian Territory set aside by the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the areas designated for each tribe."
Curated OER
Etc: Cession of Native Lands, 1816 1830
A map of the United States showing the cession of Native American lands between 1816 and 1830. The map is color-coded to show the lands ceded prior to 1816, the lands ceded between 1816 and 1830 with dates of cession given, and areas...
National Women's Hall of Fame
National Women's Hall of Fame: Sarah Winnemucca
The National Women's Hall of Fame offers a biography of the extraordinary life of Sarah Winnemucca of the Paiute Indians.
History Tools
History Tools: Thomas Jefferson's Indian Policy [Pdf]
Primary source material on the message from Thomas Jefferson secretly delivered to Congress on his strategy to acquire Native American land and expand the western frontier. Paragraph numbers have been added.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Closing the Frontier
A brief look at the conflict between Native Americans in the last half of the 19th century. By the end of the century, Native Americans were relegated to reservation life. See how the struggle was fought and find out the advantages of...
Northern Arizona University
People and Land Use on the Colorado Plateau
Description of the people that have lived in the Colorado Plateau over the past 12,000 years. It started with the Paleoindians and has included such people as the Archaic culture, Anasazi, Hopi, Zuni, Pais cultures, and Navajos among...
Other
Indians of Pennsylvania and the Delaware Valley
Provides an extensive look at the history and culture of Pennsylvania's first dwellers. There are a variety of links to websites containing information about the many different tribes that once occupied the land that is now Pennsylvania.
Other
Tn Gen Web: Treaty With the Chickasaw, 1832
Provides the original text of the treaty with the Chickasaw, which includes their cession of land to the U.S., compensation and allotments.
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...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Tlingit
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of the Tlingit, a native tribe. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Britain in the New World: War and Peace With Powhatan's People
Read about how Powhatan and his tribe initially helped the English settlers in Jamestown, but ultimately went to war. Find out about why the different views about land ownership exacerbated the tension between the two cultures.
Other
New Netherland Institute: Early Descriptions of New Netherland
Excerpts from Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664, published in 1909, and available for free from Google Books. The first excerpt is from a 1644 account of Henry Hudson's descriptions of the new land he saw on his 1609 voyage. The...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Arts and Humanities: Art of the Americas to World War I
A landing page for a course on the art history of North and South America. These should be cross-checked against what we have from smarthistory.org. Found one of the resources there - eval 16069716368457046sekCR.
Other
Hillcrest High School: Us History: Expansion in Texas [Pdf]
This chapter covers a time in Texas history during the mid-nineteenth century when Mexico offered land grants to American settlers, but conflict developed over religion and other cultural differences.
Yale University
Avalon Project: Treaty With Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache; July 27, 1853
Actual text of the treaty, which establishes the U.S. right to build highways, military forts, and depots on tribal land. Promises annual money and supplies to Indian nations.
Other
Bryan Strome : First Nations Seeker
An alphabetical listing and detailed map showing the location of the lands of the aboriginal tribes and linguistic groups found in North America.
Other
Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma: History of the Pawnee
Tribal site gives a brief history of the Pawnee people including information about ancestral lands, the bands that make up the nation, and recent history.
Other
Fallon Paiute Shoshone Tribe: Homepage
Website from Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe provides information on the Tribe's government, current issues, news, events, and more.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Trail of Tears
This site from Wikipedia provides a description of the Trail of Tears. Also given is some background information that led to the removal of the Cherokees from northern Georgia as well as information on the actual removal process.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: American Population, 1790
A map of the original thirteen States in 1790 showing the distribution of the European-American population at the time and the general tribal lands of the Native Americans east of the Mississippi River. The map shows the State lines,...
PBS
Pbs: Archives of the West: Selections From "With the Nez Perces"
Contains selections from "With the Nez Perces: Alice Fletcher in the Field, 1889-92" by E. Jane Gay, which provided an anthropological look at the Nez Perce Indians and their bewilderment at the Dawes Act.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Trail of Tears: The Cherokee Fight Against Removal
Students are introduced to the Cherokees' struggle to remain on their land in the early 1800s. They will learn about how the Cherokees assimilated parts of the culture of the white American South and whether this helped them to keep...
University of Groningen
American History: Essays: Spain's Territorial Conquest in the Americas
The history of Spanish territorial conquest in the New World is the history of the succession of conquistadors who often overwhelmed native empires, but were sometimes overwhelmed themselves. Read about the conquistadors who came to the...