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Posted by: Danna Bell
Primary sources related to Cherokee removal offer a rich and complex story detailing how the systems of federalism and separation of powers failed to protect Cherokee treaty rights.
Posted in: Geography and Maps, Government and Law, Native American History
Posted by: Danna Bell
Football tends to be on students’ minds this time of year. What can they discover about football and American history through Library of Congress primary sources? An entertaining fictional film available on the Library's National Screening Room can lead students to discover a football legend from the early twentieth century.
Posted in: Lesson Ideas, Native American History
Posted by: Danna Bell
As you start back to school in the new year, we wanted to highlight a few outstanding posts from other Library of Congress blogs that you may have missed. Hopefully they'll spur some ideas for classroom activities featuring the Library’s collections.
Posted in: Lesson Ideas, Native American History, Poetry and Literature, Science Technology and Math
Posted by: Danna Bell
Chronicling America has fourteen Native American newspapers within its collections. These papers cover most of the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth.
Posted in: Native American History
Posted by: Danna Bell
While searching through our collections for maps to use for display in the exhibition Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I, I found one among our uncatalogued holdings that caught my attention. As the title states, it is a map presenting the role of North American Indians in the World War.
Posted in: Geography and Maps, Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Native American History, Veterans and Military History
Posted by: Danna Bell
Explore blog posts teaching about Native American history and culture using primary sources.
Posted in: Native American History
Posted by: Danna Bell
Did you know that in addition to celebrating the creation of the Constitution on September 17th, the United States also celebrates Citizenship Day?
Posted in: Constitution, Government and Law, Native American History
Posted by: Danna Bell
It is also a reminder that, though we have collected the stories of many Native Americans with a focus on those who served as code talkers, there are many, many more who served bravely in all of the branches of the military throughout the history of the United States of America.
Posted in: Native American History, Teaching Strategies, Veterans and Military History
Posted by: Danna Bell
One benefit of my job at the Library of Congress is that I get to learn some history and read critical analysis while also locating resources and finding ways to support teachers in the classroom. One topic that I continue to learn more about is the history of the ways in which the lives of Native Americans in the United States have been documented.
Posted in: Culture and Folklife, Native American History