Where do Indians live in the Unites States? See a county-based map and a map of Indian reservations. Watch the expansion of white settlement across the USA: the spread of counties, spread of states, and the spread of population. Listen to Buffy Sainte-Marie sing what happened to the Indians.
Explore various aspects
of Native American cultures and the
interaction with the invading European cultures that created the distinctive
cultural landscapes of the American Indians:
1) original Indian cultural areas and
2) U.S. Indian Government Policies and their Impact
on Reservation Landscapes [table] Read what the
U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs said
at the 175th anniversary of the establishment of the Bureau.
Examine the
spatial
expansion of U.S. land hegemony and the retreat
of Indian lands.
| Great Plains Indians: | Southwest Indians: | |
South Dakota
reservations |
Mesa Verde National Park
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| Eastern Woodland Indians: | Taos
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agriculture
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Wisconsin reservations
(Midwest Treaty Network) |
Hopi
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Navajo
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Pueblo Indians |
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In
ITALY’S 2008 general election, voters in the north of the country were greeted
by posters showing a Native American chief in feathered headdress (photo on the
left)).
Additional option materials:
1)
Indian casinos in California and
in Connecticut
2) Law suit about the BIA's mismanagement of the
Individual Indian Money accounts
3) A web site:
Native
Americans. For other Indian sites, search Google.com.
4) Read about Cheyenne River reservation in
South Dakota and "buffalo tourism."
5) Read how syphilis actually spread from
the "New World" to the "Old World."
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