Chumash Indian Life

http://www.sbnature.org/research/anthro/chumash/index.htm

Rating: 1, Awesome!

Description: This website includes information about the Chumash people's daily lives, as well as resources archived by the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Visit this web museum and experience the Chumash people, "the ones who make shell bead money." Standard 3.2 (general) and 4.2.1

Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics.

Graphics content: High.

Resource ID: 661

Evaluating Materials About Native Americans

http://www.mmrls.org/Materials/cenativepeoples.htm

Rating: 1, Awesome!

Description: Even today, stereotypes, assumptions, misinformation, and Euro-American biases about Native American people continue. They appear in sports logos, in cartoons, in Disney movies, in commercial products and children's toys, in the media, in children's books, and in general conversation. To help you, as a teacher, spot some of the inaccuracies and distortions that books, toys, and classroom activities may present, we have prepared a list of 10 basic questions that you can ask to judge a book's merits or inadequacies.

Resource Type: Other.

Graphics content: Low.

Resource ID: 1131

Welcome to Costanoan Media Gallery

http://www.indiancanyon.org/homeframe2000.html

Rating: 1, Awesome!

Description: Here are maps, a history and multimedia links relating to the Costanoan or Ohlone people of California. Standards 3.2.1, 3.2.2 and 4.2.1

Comments: This is a non commercial, Indian created and managed information site on Costanoan/Ohlone people

Resource Type: Other.

Graphics content: High.

Resource ID: 3436

California Missions On-Line Project

http://www.cuca.k12.ca.us/lessons/missions/contents/index.html

Rating: 2, High!

Description: This site includes research on life on all 21 California missions. It has material on the history, government and culture of Native American tribes throughout California. There is also a quiz and student projects are posted. Standard 3.2.4, 4.2.1, 4.2.4 and 4.2.5

Comments: This was developed by Rob Garretson, 4th Grade Teacher at Los Amigos Elementary School in Rancho Cucamonga, California, in partial fulfilment for the Masters of Arts in Educational Multimedia at California Polytechnic University, Pomona, California.

Resource Type: Other.

Graphics content: High.

Resource ID: 540

Costanoan-Ohlone Indian Canyon

http://www.indiancanyon.org/index.html

Rating: 2, High!

Description: This is a site developed for the Costanoan people. It has film clips, primary sources, stories, dances, etc. that have been written or recorded by native people in the region. The site was started in 1994 focusing upon the Costanoan, or Ohlone who have not been recognized as a tribe by the United States government. The author is Russell Imrie, registered Kahnawake Mohawk (official Kahnawake Site). Standards 3.2.1, 3.2.2

Comments: Navigation is difficult since there is not a clear homepage.

Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics.

Graphics content: High.

Resource ID: 3822

Indian Canyon California - The Mutsun (Costanoan) Indians

http://bioc09.uthscsa.edu/natnet/archive/nl/9405/0085.html

Rating: 2, High!

Description: This site is a brief articles on the Mutsun Indians from 1700's to the present. Standard 3.2 all and 4.2.1

Comments: The language is pretty academic and may require teacher help.

Resource Type: Secondary Text.

Graphics content: Low.

Resource ID: 1719

Native Californians

http://home.earthlink.net/~boytan/nativecal/nativecal.htm

Rating: 2, High!

Description: This is a set of evaluated links with information about California Indian people and their traditional art, food and shelter. The photos make the site especially useful for the elementary classroom. Standards 3.2. all and 4.2.1

Comments: This site was developed by a San Francisco community college instructor for her son's fourth grade class.

Resource Type: Compilation of Links.

Resource ID: 2276

California's Native People

http://www.cabrillo.edu/~crsmith/anth6.html

Rating: 3, Medium.

Description: This site is organized around three basic topics: an Historical Sketch; Culture Areas; and Medical Practices. The Historical Sketch traces the social and cultural evolution of the native peoples, beginning with their first appearance and ending with the contemporary scene. The Culture Area section takes a look at the manifold economic and social adaptations made by the native peoples just prior to and shortly after the coming of the Europeans. The last topic, and it's a broad one, is Medical Practices of the Native Californians. In this section we will examine the roles of health care providers, concentrating on how plants were used in maintaining and restoring health to both the individual and the community. Standards 3.1.1, 3.1.2, and 4.2.1

Comments: This is an online course by Chuck Smith at Cabrillo College so the reading level is high. I is quite useful for teachers and older students.

Resource Type: Secondary Text.

Graphics content: High.

Resource ID: 567

Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park

http://www.calgoldrush.com/travel/grinding_rock.html

Rating: 3, Medium.

Description: The park preserves a great outcropping of marbleized limestone with some 1,185 mortar holes -- the largest collection of bedrock mortars in North America. The Chaw'se Regional Indian Museum features a variety of exhibits and a Miwok village complete with roundhouse has been reconstructed in the middle of the valley. Standard 3.2.2

Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics.

Graphics content: High.

Resource ID: 1720

Ohlone Indians

http://www.sims.berkeley.edu:8000/courses/is290-2/f98/oaklandkids/sites/ohlone/

Rating: 3, Medium.

Description: This page contains a lot of information about the Ohlones and their life style. It is a good reference page for reports. Standards 3.1.2 and 4.2.1

Comments: This project was created by the City of Belmont and the Belmont Historical society.

Resource Type: Secondary Text.

Graphics content: Low.

Resource ID: 2355