Native American Museum Project Links

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Have you used the Middle School Library Reseachpage yet? If not, you need to. It will be the best way to conduct your research for this project. The purpose of this page is to provide some additional links that might be worth checking out, especially if you get stuck and don't know what to do next! There are links about how to do citations/bibliographies, examples of exhibits to give you ideas about how you could do your own, general resources related to the cultural regions, and finally, reliable websites sorted by region.

Student Examples

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Cranium Review Game

Citation:

Use the Citation Machineto help you with citation of books, articles, photographs, documents and more.
Another citation generator is at OSLIS: MLA Citation Maker. This works pretty well too.

Exhibit Examples:

Check out these websites for cool ideas about how to create your own exhibit.

Artifact Display

Chippewa Valley Museum: Paths of the People Ojibwe Exhibit
Taber Museum Native American Exhibit

Documentary Film

Tattoo on My Heart: The Warriors of Wounded Knee 1973

Miniatures Display

Iroquois Longhouse Diorama
New York State Museum Iroquois Diorama

Re-enactment/Living History

Living History General Information
Wanaunsapi Tiyospaye ta wicoti
Woodland Confederacy

Virtual Museum Exhibit

Kiowa Drawings
Lakota Winter Counts

General Resources

Use these websites if you need information about Native Americans in general. Some of the sites listed here include explanations for each of the 10 cultural regions.
Cultural Regions
Edward Curtis Photographs

First People: Native American Legends Index
Learn About Native Americans
Native Americans: Daily Life in Olden Times
Native American Facts Pages Native Peoples of North America: Regional Lifeways


Resources by Region

These websites are sorted by region and should give you a good idea about what a reliable website looks like.

Arctic/Subarctic

Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowlege
Arctic Studies Center
Looking Both Ways

California

California Indian Artifacts
Native California: Languages and Tribes

Eastern Woodlands

Native Tech: Scenes from the Eastern Woodlands circa 1500
Ojibwe: Waasa-Inaabidaa

Great Basin

Desert USA: Paiute Native Americans of the Great Basin Desert
Native People of North America: Great Basin Culture Area

Great Plains

The Plains Indians
Tracking the Buffalo: Stories from a Buffalo Hide Painting

Northwest Coast

American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Digital Collection
The Tlingit of the Northwest Coast

Plateau

Daily Life of the Plateau Indians
Nez Perce

Southeast

Cherokee: History and Culture
Southeast Native Americans

Southwest

Hollister Collection of Southwestern Native American Pottery
Southwest Native Americans

Example of an unreliable source:

Hopi Civilization
Why is it unreliable? Well, take a look at who wrote it:
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This is Ellie Crystal, who describes herself as Psychic, Therapist, Reiki Master, Teacher, Author, Researcher, Lecturer, and Broadcaster. On her other website, she writes that Men in Black, The Matrix, The Da Vinci Code, aliens, and ghosts are all REAL. Still trust her site about Hopi Civilization? I hope not!