Native American and Indigenous Histories Links
Peopling of Ancient America
Native American
Pre-Contact Cultural Areas
The First Migration and
other maps
Vikings in North
America
Mississippi Watershed
Kennewick Man
controversy on Nova, PBS
"Who Owns the Past": Website for the
PBS documentary
Peopling North America: Population Movements and Migration, University of
Calgary site
Latest news on
the Kennewick Man controversy
Discovery and Exploration
American Journeys: Eyewitness
Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement
Maps in the Library
of Congress
Animated Map: Voyages of Discovery
The European Voyages of Exploration: The Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (tutorial)
Discoverers Web with
lots of links
Excerpts
from the Journals of Columbus
Columbian Exchange website about specific products, put together at Ohio
University
A scholarly site on Columbian Exchange
with extensive links, put together by
the National Humanities
Center in North Carolina
"Welcome to 1492: An
Ongoing Voyage"
Colonial Maps of the Caribbean
Latitude: The Art and Science of Fifteenth-Century Navigation
Prof. Patricia
Seed's interactive syllabus for her
History of Navigation
and Cartography course at Rice University
Central America
PBS Site on
Cortes and the Aztec
PBS Site on the
Conquistadors
BBC Site on the Conquistadors
Bartoleme de las
Casas Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies (1542) - excerpt
AHA
sponsored site about the Conquest of the Mexicans, contains maps, documents,
and
bibliographic essay.
Excerpts
from The Broken Spears, Edited and annotated by Miguel Leon-Portilla,
the text is an
invaluable resource for understanding
how the Aztecs interpreted their own conquest by Cortés.
Broken Spears,
full text, in Spanish
Hernan Cortés: from
Second Letter to Charles V, 1520
The Aztecs and the Making of Colonial
Mexico, virtual exhibit put together by the Newberry Library in Chicago.
Caribbean
The Caribbean Amerindian Centrelink (or
CAC) is a central link to a wide range of websites that either focus
upon or shed light upon the Native
peoples of the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. Includes full texts of
books.
An exhibit about the Taino, the native peoples of the Greater Antilles, first encountered by
Columbus.
The relación of Fray Ramón Pané, who was sent by Columbus to live among the
Taínos on Hispaniola
(present-day island shared by Haiti
and the Dominican Republic) in the 1490s - one of the few
eyewitness accounts of the initial
encounter between the Spanish and the peoples of the Caribbean.
Southeastern US
Cabeza de
Vaca narrative, translated by Fanny Bandelier (1905)
Full text of Cabeza de
Vaca's travels, translated and annotated by Cyclone Covey.
Iroquoia, Black Robes, and New France
Jesuit Relations: a
site that contains the accounts of Jesuits about their interactions with natives
in New
France.
Hudson Bay Company
Archives website
Hudson Bay Company posts - map
In Pursuit of Adventure: The
Fur Trade in Canada and the North West Company
An Algonquian
response to European superiority
Virtual museum of New France history
(either in French or in English)
Primary and secondary sources on French Canada
New England
Pequot War
John
Underhill's History of the Pequot War
Edward
Randolph's Description of King Philip's War (1685)
Plymouth Colony Archive Project at the University of Virginia: Search
for "Native American"
Wars for Empire/ Revolutionary War
Seven Years' War maps
from the Massachusetts Historical Society
Governor
Glen, The Role of the Indians in the Rivalry Between France, Spain, and England,
1761
Excerpts from Mary Jemison's Captivity narrative
The War for
Independence Through Seneca Eyes: Mary Jemison Views the Revolution, 1775–79
The Revolution and
Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750–1789
The American
Revolution and its Era, maps from the Library of Congress.
The West and the Pacific
The First
American West: The Ohio Valley, 1720-1850, a Library of Congress site of
pictures, maps, and
photos.
An excellent site detailing the Lewis and Clark expedition,
including time lines, maps, and journal
excerpts.
A collection of
Native American artifacts
collected by Lewis and Clark.
The companion site to the
Ken Burns’ documentary on Lewis and
Clark
An interesting website
on California missions
American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Digital Collection,
maintained by the U. of Washington.
PBS series: New Perspectives on the West,
includes complete texts of explorers' journals and accounts
of the Pueblo Revolt.
South
Seas: Voyaging and Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Pacific, 1750-1800,
marvelous and extensive site which
deals with indigenous peoples of the Pacific as well as European explorers such
as Cook.
Transit of Venus, a site at
the Univ. of Auckland supported by the New Zealand government, has an
interesting collection of materials on Cook and the
indigenous people he encountered, as well as a collection
of materials on
Polynesian and Maori ocean voyaging in the Pacific.
Maryland/Chesapeake
Transcripts and
page facsimiles of the 1588 and 1590 editions of Thomas Hariot, A
Brief and True
Report of the New Found Land of
Virginia, put together by Melissa S. Kennedy, a graduate student
in English at the University of
Virginia.
The woodcuts of Theodore de Bry,
drawings of Indians in the Chesapeake and Carolinas
MD Kids page, maintained by the Office
of the Secretary of State. Click on "history" to see the pages
on MD
natives.
Native
Americans of Maryland Sites, a site off the BCPS site, gives information on
various Indian nations
in Maryland.
Maryvale Elementary School, Montgomery County, Les Project sur les Premiers
Habitants du Maryland
project is in
French, but still gives a good impression of what these 4th graders put together
Pine Crest Elementary 4th grade social studies page
Piney Branch Library Media Center - webpage with links to pages on Maryland
Indians
http://personal.pitnet.net/primarysources/#bc -
The Virtual
Jamestown Archive, lots of materials to explore the history of 17th-century
Virginia and its
inhabitants.
Teaching and Pedagogy
BCPS, Library Information
Network for Essential Curriculum
The Learning Page,
at the Library of Congress American Memory collection, specifically for teachers.
Maryland Historical
Society Teachers' Resources page.
History Matters, a site for history
teachers sponsored by GWU - use the search function to find websites
on any
history topic
General
Edward S.
Curtis's The North American Indian photographs, part of the Library of
Congress' American
Memory site
Images of
Native Americans, organized by the Bancroft Library
A site to accompany Patricia Seed's
American Pentimento, useful in
teaching Native history.
American Indian History and Related
Issues, site maintained by the The American Indian Studies Program
at California State University, Long
Beach - huge number of useful links.
