Excellent links for teachers preparing for a new school year

This list has been compiled by an active class room teacher. She has agreed to correspond with any other teacher who might have a class room question. The teacher's name is FRANCES RUTH HARRIS harrisfr@yahoo.com
 

A Guide to the Great Sioux Nation
http://www.state.sd.us/state/executive/tourism/sioux/sioux.htm

Indian Center at Blue Cloud Abbey in the Dakotas
http://www.bluecloud.org/dakota.html

Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe
http://www.state.sd.us/state/executive/tourism/sioux/criver.htm

Institute of American Indian Studies, All My Relatives
http://www.usd.edu/iais/index.html

Teaching with Historic Native Places - Lesson Plans
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/topic.htm#indian

Lakota and Dakota Wowapi Oti Kin, Lakota Dakota Information Page
http://maple.lemoyne.edu/~bucko/lakota.html

Jim Janke’s Old West
http://www.janke.washcoll.edu/oldwest/nativeam.htm

Native American Lore
http://www.ilhawaii.net/~stony/loreindx.html

American Institute of Indian Studies, Links Index
http://www.usd.edu/iais/links/links1.html

Native American Sites
http://www.pitt.edu/~lmitten/indians.html

Nineteenth Century Native American Biographical Notes and Stories
http://indy4.fdl.cc.mn.us/~isk/stories/authors.html

On This Date in Native American History
http://www.americanindian.net

The Native Americans, Lewis and Clark, PBS On Line
http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/native/index.html

Native American Studies Links
http://www.historyoftheworld.com/soquel/native.htm

Catholics Apologize to the Yankton Sioux for Abuses
American Institute of Indian Studies
http://www.usd.edu/iais/bulletin/26bull.htmlhttp

Lakota Dakota Comprehensive Bibliography
http://maple.lemoyne.edu/~bucko/biblio.html

The Sioux Spiritual Center
http://maple.lemoyne.edu/~bucko/pview.html

The South Dakota Indian Tribes
http://indy4.fdl.cc.mn.us/~isk/maps/dakotas/sd.html

Wounded Knee
http://msnbc.com/onair/msnbc/TimeandAgain/archive/wknee/1890.asp

Native American Culture
http://www.greatdreams.com/native.htm

The Journey Museum, Rapid City, South Dakota
http://www.journeymuseum.org/english/

The Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation
http://www.crazyhorse.org/

Dinosaurs, Native American and Prairie History
http://www.ptrm.org/

Across South Dakota, Road Trip USA
http://www.moon.com/road_trip/us83/south_dakota.html

Lakota Legend Painted Ranch
http://www.lakota-legend.com/lh_fd.htm

The Great Sioux Nation
http://www.travelsd.com/sioux/index.htm

Red Cloud Indian School
http://www.redcloudschool.com/

Canku Ota
http://www.turtletrack.org/

Inter-Tribal Bison Cooperative
http://www.intertribalbison.org

Fading Indian Rock Art Saved, At Least In Data Base
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/featured_articles/981001thursday.html

Reservation Controversies, Then and Now
http://learning.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lesson97/reservation/teacher.html

Set the Indian Aside as a Problem
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/755f-roubideaux.html

George Kills In Sight Describes the Death of Indian Leader Crazy Horse
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/427-kills.html

A Young Indian Praises US Government Policy in the Nineteenth Century
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/1579b-childers.html

Maps of Indian Territory, the Dawes Act, the Will Rogers’ Enrollment Case File
http://www.nara.gov/education/cc/dawesact.html

Amos Owen on the Indian Reorganization Act
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/755e-owen.html

Karl-May-Museum
http://www.karl-may-museum.de/indiannorde.html

Native American On-Line
http://www.native-american-online.org/  

American Indian Heritage Foundation
http://www.indians.org/body_index.html  

Reservation Controversies, Student Page
http://learning.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lesson97/reservation/student.html

Henrietta Chief Recalls an Early Twentieth Century Boarding School
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/434-chief.html

Sioux Treaty of 1868
http://www.nara.gov/education/cc/sioux.html

Lakota Sioux
http://www.blackhills-info.com/lakota_sioux/

Native Clothing
http://www.civilization.ca/membrs/fph/stones/clothing/clmenu.htm

Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian
http://www.si.edu/cgi-bin/nav.cgi

Indian Page Source
http://www.garryowen.com/indianpg.htm

Sioux Heritage Dictionary and Lakota Audio
http://www.lakhota.com/reference.htm

Other Native American Internet Resources
http://www.ou.edu/cas/slis/trails/poebookm.htm

KOLA International Campaign Office
http://users.skynet.be/kola/

American Indian Literature and Culture
http://web.reed.edu/academic/departments/english/courses/English558/Introfancy.html

Tribute to Dave Bald Eagle
http://users.skynet.be/kola/dba.htm

Native American Spirituality

Sinte Gleska University On Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation
http://sinte.indian.com/

Native American Information from A to Z

American Indian Links to Neat Places

Four Winds, Links
http://www.earthrunner.com/4winds/links.html

The Journey Museum
http://www.journeymuseum.org

Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Search
http://www.go.com/Titles?webtv=true&col=WW&sv=W3&qt=Cheyenne+River+Reservation

Native Authors Biographical Notes
http://indy4.fdl.cc.mn.us/~isk/stories/authors.html

Native American Resources
http://www.cowboy.net/native/index.html

Tributes to Native Americans
http://www.indianexpo.org/awrexpo.html

Indian Country
http://www.indiancountry.com/

Link to Information on Native American Indians
http://pride-net.com/native_indians/

Cheyenne Eagle Butte Schools Home Page
http://www.c-eb.com/index.htm

Native Peoples Magazine
http://www.nativepeoples.com

The American West: A Celebration of the Human Spirit
http://www.AmericanWest.com/

Native Resources
http://www.klingon.org/native/pages/education.html/

Cheyenne River Agency Education
http://www.c-eb.com/lineofficewelcome.htm

Native Americans The Surprising Silent
http://www.britannica.com/bcom/original/article/0,5744,4047,00.html

Native American Research Page
http://maple.lemoyne.edu/~bucko/indian.html

Black Elk: Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
http://www.indians.org/prayer/blackelk.html
 

Chief David Bald Eagle Camp Ground
http://louienet.com/chiefbaldeagle/

Lakota Artist Dennis Eagle Horse
http://denniseaglehorse.com/

Native American Indian Web Sites
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/7694/websites.html

Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe
http://www.state.sd.us/state/executive/tourism/sioux/santee.htm

On This Date in North American Indian History
http://americanindian.net/
 

The Spike
http://www.thespike.com/tableft.htm  

Indian Gifts
http://www.indiangifts.com/  

Native Child
http://www.nativechild.com/
 

Native Quilts Curriculum from National Museum of the American Indian
http://www.conexus.si.edu/curriculum.htm
 

Native American Spirituality
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/1384/native.htm
 

Cankpe Opi Wounded Knee Home Page
http://www.dickshovel.com/WKmasscre.html  

Tribes, States and Government Agency
http://www.thefuturesite.com/nzingha/newlinks.html

Native American Genealogy
http://members.aol.com/bbbenge/front.html

Indians and Corporate Logos
http://www.msu.edu/course/atl/150/bellfyph/logos.html

National Holiday for Native Americans
http://www.petitiononline.com/indian/petition.html

Bucko’s Mighty Home Page
http://puffin.creighton.edu/bucko/

Edward Curtis, The Shadow Catcher
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/curtis_e.html

Lesson Plans for Teachers, How the West was Won
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/howthewestwaslost/

Midlands American Indian Studies Council
http://www.usd.edu/iais/maisc/info1.html

Tribal College Journal of American Higher Education
http://www.tribalcollegejournal.org/aihec.htm

Reservation Controversies
http://learning.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lesson97/reservation/teacher.html

Virtual Library of Native American Sources on the Internet
http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/

Native Web, World Wide
http://www.nativeweb.org/

American’s Leading Indian News Source
http://www.indiancountry.com/

Sioux Heritage Dictionary and Lakota Audio
http://www.lakhota.com/reference.htm

Presentation Campus Eagle Butte
http://www.presentation.edu/lakotacampus.htm

National AISE Conference Student Sponsorship

Wild West Communications
http://wildwestcommunications.com/

Internet for Educators Research Tool
http://cvisions.com/help/wp4ed/tintro.htm

Technology for Cultural Preservation and Education
http://indiannet.indian.com/

Teaching In Through and About the Arts
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/

16,000 Reviewed Resources
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/

Great Books Online
http://www.bartleby.com/

800 Classic Texts with Teacher Helps
http://www.bibliomania.com/

Big Chalk Search and Browse
Select a grade level and Go!

Common Errors in English
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/

Dakota Writing Project
http://www.usd.edu/engl/DWP/index.html

Dictionary of Difficult Words
http://www.lineone.net/dictionaryof/difficultwords/

Encarta’s Lesson Collection
http://encarta.msn.com/schoolhouse/

Lesson Plans and Curriculum Units Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators
http://www.thegateway.org/ 

The Language Fun Farm
http://www.teflfarm.com/

Literary Traveler’s Guide
http://www.literarytraveler.com/

Cowboy Poetry
http://www.cowboypoetry.com/newandold.htm

Novels and Plots and Basics for a C+
http://www.novelguide.com/

American Literature
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/table.html

The Research Paper
http://www.researchpaper.com/

Financial Understandings
http://library.thinkquest.org/10326/investment_lessons/lessons.html

Lesson Bank
http://www.teachers.net/lessons/

Connected Thesaurus
http://www.lexfn.com/

Short Stories
http://www.short-stories.co.uk/

Sites for Teachers
http://www.sitesforteachers.com/index5.html

Teachers Tools for the Week
http://k-6educators.about.com/education/k-6educators/bltools.htm?once=true&

The Learning Network
http://www.teachervision.com/index.html?web-184&mc=576460752849854990

Lesson Search
http://twister.coedu.usf.edu/tnt/

Online Books Page
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

Daily Haiku
http://tinywords.com/

Humanities on the Web
http://edsitement.neh.gov/

5000 SAT Preparation Words
http://www.freevocabulary.com/

Children’s Author’s Links
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/littlekids/links_authors.htm

PBS Teacher Source
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/siteguide/siteguide.shtm

Gutenberg Site of Republished Literature
http://www.promo.net/pg/

Customized Word Searches/Crosswords/Math Puzzles Build Your Own Mazes
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/

South Dakota Journalists
http://www.dwu.edu/sdlitmap/journ.html

Spell Check Online
http://www.spellonline.com/

Collections of Tongue Twisters
http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/index.htm

Vocabulary Puzzles
http://www.vocabulary.com/

Software Words Products for Sale
http://www.wordplace.com/

Online Dictionary Database
http://www.dict.org/

Educational Organizations Listing
http://www.edweek.org/context/orgs/orgs.htm

Across South Dakota
http://www.moon.com/road_trip/us83/south_dakota.html

South Dakota State Historical Society
http://www.sdhistory.org/

Nerd Development Heaven
http://www.developersnetwork.com/

Online Courses, Learning and Distance Education
http://www.worldwidelearn.com/

All Language Lookups + Games
http://www.yourdictionary.com/

Annenberg Exhibits Online
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/

Explore 33,000 Museums
http://www.museumnetwork.com/

Writing on the Web
http://www.write101.com/

Study Guides and Strategies
http://www.iss.stthomas.edu/studyguides/

Lightspan Study Web
www.studyweb.com/Homework_Help/toc.htm

Brain Mania
www.brainmania.com/

Homeworkspot.com
www.homeworkspot.com

Homework Hotline Online
www.wvpubcast.org/homework/

High School Hub
www.highschoolhub.org

Engineering Achievements
http://www.greatachievements.org/

The Invisible Library
http://www.invisiblelibrary.com/index.html

33,000 Museums
http://www.museumnetwork.com/

South Dakota Council Teachers of English
http://www.sdcte.dsu.edu/enter.htm

Different Drums
http://www.differentdrums.com/thisweek.html

Native American Cyberhunt
http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/pgore/native_american_cyberhunt.htm

Culture
http://www.germantown.k12.il.us/html/culture.html

Agayuliyararput: Our Way of Making Prayer - Video
http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/features/yupik/av.html

http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/features/yupik/


http://www.si.umich.edu/chico/yupik/yupik.html

Ainu - Audio and more
http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/features/ainu/index.html

Alaska Clipart
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/catalog.pdf

Alutiiq Dance - Video and more
http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/features/fisher/

American Indian Observed
http://archivesofamericanart.si.edu/htgmonth/amerind/amerind.htm

American Indian Radio - LIVE
http://www.airos.org/airos.ram

http://www.earthsongs.net/es_streamguides.shtml

American Indians and the Natural World
http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmnh/exhibits/north-south-east-west/

American Indians of the Pacific Northwest
http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/wauhtml/aipnhome.html

AmericArtes: Inca Son - Video
http://play.rbn.com/?url=kennedy/kennedyg2/g2demand/03172003_1800_MSN.rm&proto=rtsp

Anasazi and Kokopelli
http://raysweb.net/canyonlands/pages/anasazi.html

Art of Being Kuna
http://www.conexus.si.edu/kuna/index.htm

Black Experience in the American West
http://americanhistory.si.edu/paac/aquest/contents.htm

Black Lodge Singers perform Mighty Mouse
http://www.turtletrack.org/Audio/6274.wav

Bolom Chon - Audio
http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/maya/audio/bolomchon2.aif

Buffalo Dance - Video
http://memory.loc.gov/mbrs/edmp/4025.mpg

Campfire Stories with Edward Catlin
http://catlinclassroom.si.edu/

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/curtis_e.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/curthome.html

http://www.sil.si.edu/Exhibitions/Curtis/

http://americanart.si.edu/collections/exhibits/catlin/index.html

Camping with the Sioux
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/fletcher/fletcher.htm

Canela Body Adornment
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/canela/canela1.htm

http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/canela/

Cellicion Traditional Zuni Dancers - November 13, 2002 - Video
http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/artist_detail.cfm?artist_id=CELLICIONZ

Cherokee Trail of Tears
http://www.rosecity.net/tears/

Chuna McIntyre - October 12, 2002 - Videos - and March 31, 1997
http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/2002/program/pavilions/cybercast/storytelling/mcintyre.ram

http://www.si.umich.edu/chico/yupik/chuna45k.ram

Circle of Stories
http://www.pbs.org/circleofstories/

Civilization - from Canada
http://www.civilisations.ca/aborig/stones/engfrm.htm

Custer's Last Stand
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jun25.html

Earliest Americans
http://www.cr.nps.gov/aad/eam/index.htm

http://www.u.arizona.edu/ic/kmartin/School/index.htm

http://www.civilisations.ca/vmnf/premieres_nations/en/index.html

Ehectl Aztec Warrior Dancers - November 24, 2002 - Video
http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/artist_detail.cfm?artist_id=EHECTLAZTE

Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/berlhtml/berllyric.html

(scroll to Ethnographic)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/berlhtml/berlrecording.html

Flags of the Native Peoples of the US
http://users.aol.com/Donh523/navapage/

Gayle Ross - March 5, 2003 - Video
http://play.rbn.com/?url=kennedy/kennedyg2/g2demand/03052003_1800_MSN.rm&proto=rtsp

Health Care to Native Americans
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/if_you_knew/if_you_knew_01.html

Honor and Pain - Video
http://209.233.186.60/honor-pain.html

Immigration...Native Americans
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/immig/native_american.html

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/alt/native_american.html

Iroquois Earth Songs - Audio
http://www.ohwejagehka.com/songs.htm

http://collections.ic.gc.ca/language/songs.htm

Jeff Ball, Courting Flute - Video
http://play.rbn.com/?url=kennedy/kennedyg2/g2demand/11022003_1800_MSN.rm&proto=rtsp

Joanne Shenandoah - Video
http://208.16.194.119/video/joanne/pvp.wmv

Legends of Our Times
http://www.conexus.si.edu/legends/main.html

http://www.civilisations.ca/aborig/rodeo/rodeo00e.html

Lewis and Clark: Mapping the West
http://www.edgate.com/lewisandclark/

Looking Both Ways
http://www.mnh.si.edu/lookingbothways/

Lure of the West
http://americanart.si.edu/t2go/1lw/index.html

National Portrait Gallery: Native Americans
http://www.npg.si.edu/col/native/index.htm

Native Way: Cookbook Index
http://www.edgate.com/d.pl?url=http://www.wisdomkeepers.org/nativeway/nwtrbidx.html

http://www.nativetech.org/food/

Native Word of the Day
http://www.knba.org/knba_nwod_archives.shtm

Navajo - Now I Walk in Beauty - Audio
http://www.prairiehome.org/performances/19980613/rafiles/980613_choir2_14.ram

Omaha Indian Music - Audio
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/omhhtml/omhhome.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/omhhtml/omhoim.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/omhhtml/omhbibpowindex.html

Periscope
http://cfmedia.scetv.org/periscope/display/ArchiveIndex.cfm?moduleID=62

Photographs
http://www.unitedearth.com.au/tipigallery.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/ichihtml/cdnsp5.html

http://www.civilisations.ca/archeo/inuksuit/inukphoe.html

Pocahontas
http://www.apva.org/history/pocahont.html

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/pocahonta

President Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress 'On Indian Removal'
http://www.ourdocuments.ftp://216.54.96.55/pub/doc_025.pdf

ftp://216.54.96.55/pub/doc_025b.pdf

Reservation Controversies
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/97/reservation/teacher.html

Rivers, Edens, Empires
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/lewisandclark/lewisandclark.html

Seeds of Change Garden
http://www.mnh.si.edu/garden/

Sham Battle at the Pan-American Exposition - Videos
http://memory.loc.gov/mbrs/lcmp001/37010s1.mpg

http://memory.loc.gov/mbrs/lcmp001/37010s2.mpg

Sioux Ghost Dance from Buffalo Bill's Wild West - Video
http:// http://memory.loc.gov/mbrs/edmp/4024.mpg

Song Catcher Frances Densmore of Red Wing
http://news.mpr.org/features/199702/01_smiths_densmore/index.shtml

Storytelling: Art of Knowledge
http://www.civilisations.ca/aborig/storytel/indexeng.html

Tribal Names
http://www.americanindian.net/names.html

Totem Poles: Present at the Creation - audio and more
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/totempoles/index.html

Truth and Lies - Video
http://209.233.186.60/truthlies.html

Vine Deloria, Jr. - October 12, 2002 - Video
http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/2002/program/pavilions/cybercast/history/deloria.ram

Voices from Indian Country - Videos
http://www.nativetelecom.org/realmedia/video/vfic/peratrovich.ram

http://www.nativetelecom.org/realmedia/video/vfic/karuk.ram

http://www.nativetelecom.org/realmedia/video/vfic/dewdropinn.ram

http://www.nativetelecom.org/realmedia/video/vfic/eaglesong.ram

http://www.nativetelecom.org/realmedia/video/vfic/giantblues.ram

http://www.nativetelecom.org/realmedia/video/vfic/sacred.ram