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=**Free Web Sites **=

==Native American Facts for Kids Resources on American Indians for Children and Teachers == ====This "Facts For Kids" section was designed to provide simple online information about American Indians in an easy-to-read question and answer format. We encourage students, especially older kids, to look through our main information on American Indian tribes to get the best feel for the cultures they are studying. ====

[|National Museum of American Indians]
====Welcome to (NMAI) Collections Search, which includes a representative sample of NMAI's object and historic photo collections. Each item is accompanied by basic, standardized information. ====

**North American Ethnographic Collection**
==== Over 47,000 objects and textiles represent North American Indians from the Arctic and sub-Arctic, the Pacific Northwest, California, the Southwest, the Great Plains, and the Eastern Woodlands. During his early twentieth century fieldwork, curator //Clark Wissler// collected one thousand objects representing the material culture of the Plains Indian. The North American collection continues to grow with recent acquisitions of contemporary textiles, ceramics, basketry, jewelry, and //Katsina// figures. ====



====Northwest Coast Indians is proud to introduce new written descriptions by the imminent Seattle ethnologist and author Steven C. Brown. Mr. Brown is associate curator of native American Art at the Seattle Art Museum. Excellent image resource for tools and masks. ====

**Library of Congress American Memory History of the West 1860-1920**
====Over 30,000 photographs, drawn from the holdings of the Western History and Genealogy Department at Denver Public Library, illuminate many aspects of the history of the American West. Most of the photographs were taken between 1860 and 1920. They illustrate Colorado towns and landscape, document the place of mining in the history of Colorado and the West, and show the lives of Native Americans from more than forty tribes living west of the Mississippi River. ====

 Interactive map by region connects students to more detailed information about the tribes on those regions.
http://minnow.net/index.html



Native Languages of the Americas
====Welcome to Native Languages of the Americas! We are a non-profit organization working to preserve and promote American Indian languages. This "Facts For Kids" section was designed to provide simple online information about American Indians in an easy-to-read question and answer format. We encourage students, especially older kids, to look through our main information on [|American Indian tribes] to get the best feel for the cultures they are studying. ====



Free Clip Art-Native Americans
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