Crazy Crow Trading Post offers this list of Native American Indian History & Social Studies Resources related links to help you in your search for information about American Indian tribes, associations, history and related information. Inclusion in this list does not represent an endorsement by Crazy Crow, although we do try to be selective – and reserve the right to do so.

American Indian Social Studies Curricula

America’s First Nations Collection: Marquette University Libraries – Featuring classroom-tested curricula on Native Americans with reproducible copies of primary source documents from Marquette University and elsewhere. These materials were created by select teacher-scholars who participated in America’s First Nations: American Indians in Social Studies Curricula, a summer 2000 teacher institute hosted by Marquette University and funded by National Endowment for the Humanities.

First Nations History

Concise online histories of each of the following Native American Indian tribes (there is a short single paragraph summary of each – click the link next to this for the full version): Abenaki, Acolapissa, Algonkin, Bayougoula, Beothuk, Catawba, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Chitimacha, Comanche, Delaware, Erie, Houma, Huron, Illinois, Iroquois, Kickapoo, Mahican, Mascouten, Massachusett, Mattabesic, Menominee, Metoac, Miami, Micmac, Mohegan, Montagnais, Narragansett, Nauset, Neutrals, Niantic, Nipissing, Nipmuc, Ojibwe, Ottawa, Pennacook, Pequot, Pocumtuc, Potawatomi, Sauk and Fox, Shawnee, Susquehannock, Tionontati, Tsalagi, Wampanoag, Wappinger, Wenro, Winnebago

Cherokee Tribal History | Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma

Cherokee oral history extends back through the millennia. It’s recorded that our first European contact came in 1540 with Hernando DeSoto’s exploration of the southeastern portion of our continent. Trade and intermarriage with various European immigrants soon followed, most notably with the English, Scots and Irish. Treaties were made between the British and the Cherokee Nation as early as 1725, with Cherokee Nation being recognized as inherently sovereign through those nation-to-nation agreements. Cherokees took up arms in various sides of conflicts between the European factions, in hopes of staving off further predations of Cherokee land and sovereign rights.

Despite many efforts to defeat the New Echota Treaty, measures to remove Cherokees from their homes and farms got underway in 1838. Cherokees, intermarried whites and even slaves were summarily rounded up and placed into more than a dozen stockades to await their departure. It’s estimated that 16,000 Cherokees eventually were forced to undertake the six to seven month journey to “Indian Territory” in the land beyond Arkansas. Between the stockades, starvation and sickness, and the harsh winter conditions, some 4,000 Cherokees perished, never reaching their new land in what has since become the State of Oklahomea.

Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians History

We are the people of the Three Fires Confederacy, the Odawa (Ottawa) the Ojibwa (Chippewa) and Bodowadomi (Pottawatomi) people. Our oral history traces us back to the Eastern Coast of Turtle Island where our spiritual leaders told us that we should travel to the west until we found the food growing on the water. Our people traveled until we found wild rice growing on the water and we knew we were home.

We were traders and established trade routes as far east as the Atlantic Ocean, as far west as the Rocky Mountains, as far North as Northern Canada, and as far South as the Gulf of Mexico. We were a wealthy nation respected by all our neighboring Nations. When the French arrived in our land we established trade with them and when the English came to our land they also sought us out as trading partners.

Indian Territory Division of the Oklahoma Archives

Online Transcriptions of cemeteries, deeds, federal census (free, slave, mortality, agriculture, veterans…schedules), state census, vital records (marriage, birth, death), court records (county, federal, civil, circuit, probate….), church records (membership lists, baptisms, Bible Records,), prison records, military records (rosters, muster rolls, service records, pension applications…), land records (deeds, land transfers, federal land grants, surveyor’s records..), tax records (land, property, state, federal, local….), newspaper articles (obits, marriage & birth announcements, local events…), family histories, biographies, photographs, Indian rolls, allotment records, and census cards.

Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe: History & Culture

The Sisseton–Wahpeton Oyate are two combined bands and two sub-divisions of the Isanti or Santee Dakota (Sioux) people located on the Lake Traverse Reservation in northeast South Dakota.

Tipis-Tepees-Teepees Facebook Group

Tipis site is dedicated to all the people around the world who have ever studied the American Indian tipi and wanted to live the life of freedom on the Plains that this structure represents. It is also dedicated to all those who wanted to own, have owned, will own a lodge in the future. We hope to give you information which will help you in setting up the camp of your dreams.