Instructional Resources

Web Sites

Virginia's Eight State-Recognized Tribes

http://www.chickahominytribe.org/
Chickahominy Tribe

http://www.cied.org/
Chickahominy Indians Eastern Division

http://www.baylink.org/mattaponi/
Mattaponi Tribe

http://www.monacannation.com/
Monacan Indian Nation

http://www.nansemond.org/
Nansemond Tribe

http://www.baylink.org/pamunkey/
Pamunkey Tribe

http://www.rappahannocktribe.org
Rappahannock Tribe

http://www.uppermattaponi.org
Upper Mattaponi Tribe

Other Web Sites

http://indians.vipnet.org/
The Virginia Council on Indians is an advisory board to the Governor and the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

http://www.nmai.si.edu/
The National Museum of the American Indian is the first national museum dedicated to the preservation, study, and exhibition of the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of Native Americans.

http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwedo/k12/vhr/indians.htm
The Library of Virginia provides instructional resources on the Virginia Indians.

http://www.charlescity.org/natives
"Natives in the Landscape" tells the story of Charles City's Native people through the eyes of the landscape.

http://www.vahistorical.org/cole/overview.htm
Early images of Virginia Indians can be found at the Virginia Historical Society Web Site.

http://state.vipnet.org/dhr/arch_NET/timeline/time_line.htm
Virginia Department of Historic Resources provides First People: The Early Indians of Virginia.

http://www.nps.gov/colo/Jthanout/Indianlife.html
Powhatan Indian Lifeways from the Colonial National Historical Park Service.

http://www.historicjamestowne.org/learn/lesson_plans.php
Lesson plans and Iistructional resources for Virginia Indians from the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities and the National Park Service.

http://www.virginia.org/site/features.asp?FeatureID=188#pow
Online instructional resources for Virginia Indians from the Virginia Tourism Corporation.

http://www.historyisfun.org/PDFbooks/Living_with_the_Indians.pdf
Living with the Indians, a curriculum booklet from the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation.

http://www.historyisfun.org/PDFbooks/Cultures_in_Contact.pdf
Cultures in Contact, a curriculum booklet from the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation.

http://www.mariner.org/chesapeakebay/native/nam002.html
Chesapeake Bay Our History and Our Future - Native American units and time line from the Mariners' Museum.

http://www.wm.edu/airc/
American Indian Resource Center at the College of William and Mary.

http://www.virginiaplaces.org/nativeamerican/
"Indians" of Virginia - The Real First Families of Virginia and a multitude of Web links from the Geography of Virginia class (GEOG380) taught during the fall semester at George Mason University.

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/vaindians.htm
Virginia's Indians: Past and Present Web Resource from James Madison University.

http://powhatan.wm.edu/
The village of Werowocomoco was the residence of the Algonquin chief Powhatan and the political center of the Powhatan chiefdom during the early 1600s. The Werowocomoco Research Group is studying the history and physical remains of the site.

http://www.vahistorical.org/storyofvirginia.htm
Online instructional resources for Virginia Indians: Virginia Historical Society.

http://washpost.com/nielessonplans.nsf.pdf
Our First Families from the Washington Post September 23, 2003.

http://www.patc.net/history/native/ind_hist.html
From the Blue Ridge to the Chesapeake - A Brief History of Virginia Indians on the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club Web Site.

http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/socialstudies/projects/jvc/unit/broad.html
Geography of Native Tribes and the Powhatan Confederacy.

http://www.saponitown.com/index.htm
Searching for Saponi Town.

Virginia Studies Poster Sets for the Classroom

http://chumby.dlib.vt.edu/melissa/posters/VAIndiansThreeMajorLanguage.pdf
Poster of Three Major American Indian Language Groups in Early Virginia

http://chumby.dlib.vt.edu/melissa/posters/EasternWoodslandIndiansAdaptations.pdf
Poster of How Eastern Woodlands Indians Adapted to Their Environment

http://chumby.dlib.vt.edu/melissa/posters/AdaptationsClothing.pdf
Poster of Eastern Woodlands Indians Adapted to Their Environment

http://chumby.dlib.vt.edu/melissa/posters/HowthePowhatansHelpedtheSettlers.pdf
Poster of How the Powhatan Indians Helped the Settlers Survive

http://chumby.dlib.vt.edu/melissa/posters/VAIndiansArtifacts.pdf
Poster of Virginia Indians' Artifacts

http://chumby.dlib.vt.edu/melissa/posters/JamestownTrade.pdf
Poster of Jamestown Trade Between the Powhatans and the Settlers

http://chumby.dlib.vt.edu/melissa/posters/EffectsofEnglishSettlement.pdf
Poster of Effects of English Settlement