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	Places for Kids & Teens Just Curious: Native Americans

• Carnegie Museum of Natural History: American Indians - Shows how indigenous peoples have lived with nature, treating it as both a guide and partner in life. The Iroquois, Lakota, Hopi and Tlingit tribes are represented.
• Compact History - Contains histories, locations, names, languages, cultures, etc. on tribes in the United States, although more Northeast tribes are listed at this site.
• Contact Information for the Tribes of the United States and Canada
• First Americans - Learn the history, day-to-day elements as clothing, housing and food of these five Native American Nations, the Dine, Muscogee, Tlingit, Lakota and Iroquois.
• Index of The North American Indian - This site is taken from the 20 volume work by E.S. Curtis and provides information on approximately 80 Western Native American Tribes that covers most aspects of tribal life and customs.
• Index of Native American Resources on the Internet - An extremely comprehensive, sometimes scholarly, list of sites on the web. It provides an extensive resource for librarians and teachers on art, culture, education, health, languages, statistics, etc.
• KidsKonnect: Trail of Tears
• Lewis & Clark: PBS Series - The Native Americans - This section of the site provides background on all the tribes Lewis and Clark encountered on their journey. Includes the Arikaras, the Assiniboins, the Blackfeet, the Chiooks, the Clatsops, the Hidatsas, the Mandans, the Missouris, the Nez Perces, the Otos, the Shoshones, the Teton Sioux, the Tillamooks, the Walla Wallas, the Wishrams, the Yanktons, and the Yankton Sioux.
• Multnomah County Library Kids Page - Provides a listing of Native American sites that are most suitable for school assignments. Includes a listing of general sites as well as specific individual tribes. It lists some hard to find Northwest tribes as well.
• National Museum of the American Indian - This Smithsonian Institute site includes Resource Center Information on the Native peoples of the Western Hemisphere, and the exhibitions, programs and collections of the National Museum of the American Indian.
• Native American Shelters - These shelters list the normal types of houses Native Americans used plus some unusual such as the Mogollon pit house erected on the northwest coast.
• Native Events Calendar - Search by type of event and region!
• Native Recipes - Focuses on the kinds of foods they ate and how they were prepared such as maple sugar, cornmeal, wild rice and deer meat.
• Native Tech: Indigenous Food and Traditional Recipes - A vast selection of Native American recipes contributed by visitors to NativeTech.
• Newsday's The Indians of Long Island - Newsday's publication of Native Americans from Long Island: Our Story.
• Threads of the Land - From the Canadian Museum of Civilization this site provides information on the clothing traditions of three Northwest Tribes: Copper and Caribou Inuit (Northwest Territories), the Nlaka'pamux (British Columbia Interior), and the Dene (Northern Athapaskans of the Northwest Territories). Photos.

Last updated: 01/16/08