Histories of the West: Native American and Borderlands Histories

Art History and Image Sources:

• New York Public Library Digital Gallery: After Columbus: 400 Years of Native-American Portraiture
• National Museum of the American Indian Collections *One advantage of this site is that it includes images and artifacts created by Native Americans.
• John White Water Colors and Theodor De Bry Engravings at VirtualJamestown.org
• Pictures of Native Americans from the National Archives
• Analysis of the Gilbert Sullivan Portrait of George Washington
• Picturing America from the National Endowment for the Humanities
• EDSITEment Lesson Plan on Portrait Analysis
• Art Access Site from the Art Institute of Chicago
  After you click on a selected topic, click the "lesson plans" link at the top of the page.
  The lesson plans for American Art to 1900; African-American Art; and Ancient Indian Art of the Americas seem particularly useful for American History teachers.

Settlement and Contact

• UK National Archives Learning Page site on Native-European contact
• PBS Biography of America: English Settlement Companion Page
• Lesson Plan from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania on Native-American European Contact in the Colonial Period
• American Memory Project: The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820
• PBS’s Lewis and Clark Companion Site *Especially check out “Into the Unknown”*

Native Americans

• NativeWeb
• Native American Rights Fund *See the National Indian Law Library*
• Internet Public Library Native American Authors
• Lakota Winter Counts: An Online Exhibit
• Indian Country Today
• NARA Resources on Native Americans
• National Register of Historic Places Teaching with Historic Places: American Indian History
• Native American Teaching and Learning Resources from Federal agencies