Histories of the West: Native American and Borderlands Histories

Settlement, Contact and Indian Removal

• UK National Archives Learning Page site on Native-European contact
• PBS Biography of America: English Settlement Companion Page
• American Memory Project Learning Page on Colonial Settlement
• Lesson Plan from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania on Native-American European Contact in the Colonial Period
• American Memory Project: The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820
• PBS’s Lewis and Clark Companion Site *Especially look at “Into the Unknown”*
• Discover Ohio History *Lesson Plans, Games, and other resources on historic American Indians, Frontier Conflict, and the Path to Statehood

Native Americans

• NativeWeb
• Native American Rights Fund *See the National Indian Law Library*
• Internet Public Library Native American Authors
• Lakota Winter Counts: An Online Exhibit
• Indian Country Today
• Oyate *Evaluates books about Native Americans written for school age children*
• New York Public Library Digital Gallery: After Columbus: Four-hundred Years of Native American Portraiture
• NARA Resources on Native Americans
• National Register of Historic Places Teaching with Historic Places: American Indian History