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Native American Primary/Secondary Source Sort

Album Description

Inspired by the Library of Congress Primary/Secondary Source Sort Lesson.

This lesson focuses on resources related to Native Americans in general and Seminole Indians in particular.  The full lesson plan is too big to post as one Album Item, so I have posted the 10 pictures for analysis first and a pdf of the lesson plan (with additional options) at the end.

Interested in making a SORT for your own topic?

For a good variety of resources, follow the categories in the lesson plan and search Google.  In your search include site:loc.gov for Library of Congress Resources.

How to Search Library of Congress with Google video

  3 - 5   6 - 8   9 - 12   13+   Library   Social Studies/History   Native American   Primary Source   Seminoles 

Image 8 of Persons employed in the Indian Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement of persons employed in the Indian Department. January 14, 1847. Read, and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs

Teaching Notes

  3 - 5    6 - 8    9 - 12    Social Studies/History    Economics    Native American    Seminole  

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/resource/llserialsetce.00499_00_00-025-0036-0000/?sp=8&r=0.032,0.028,0.992,0.564,0

Reference note

Created / Published

  • Washington, DC, 1847.

Genre

  • Legislative materials

Notes

  • -  SERIALSETDELIVERY1

Digital Id

Image 38 of The Hiawatha reader, being Longfellow's

Teaching Notes

  3 - 5    6 - 8    9 - 12    13+    English/Language Arts    Poetry    Native American  

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcmassbookdig.hiawathareaderbe00long/?sp=38&r=-0.008,0.315,1.125,0.639,0

Reference note

Created / Published

  • Cleveland, Lakeside book company [c1913]

Notes

  • -  Also available in digital form.

Our Indian policy - a house of cards / J. Keppler.

Teaching Notes

  3 - 5    6 - 8    9 - 12    13+     English/Language Arts    Political Cartoon    Native American    Social Studies/History  

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2012647285/

Reference note

Summary

  • Print shows Uncle Sam sitting at a table outside an "Indian Store" with Natives and government agents gathered around; he was constructing a house of cards labeled "Indian Policy" until the government agents and a man standing on a box labeled "Boston Sentimentalist" leaned over and blew on it, knocking it down.

Created / Published

  • N.Y. : Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1881 September 14.

Genre

  • Periodical illustrations--1880-1890
  • Cartoons (Commentary)--1880-1890
  • Chromolithographs--Color--1880-1890

Notes

  • -  Title from item.
  • -  Illus. from Puck, v. 10, no. 236, (1881 September 14), centerfold.
  • -  Copyright 1881 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.

Repository

Digital Id

  • ppmsca 28512 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.28512

DINSMORE [i.e. Densmore], FRANCES. OF SMITHSONIAN. INDIANS; CANNING MUSIC

Teaching Notes

  3 - 5    6 - 8    9 - 12    13+    Art/Music    Native American    Smithsonian  

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2016866642/?lolcr=blogtea

Reference note

Summary

  • Photograph shows Frances Densmore recording Native American songs sung by Mountain Chief (Sioux). (Source: Minnesota Historical Society: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2013/05/15/mpr-documentaries-song-catcher-frances-densmore-of-red-wing-and-artist-charles-biederman and researcher A. Walker, 2021)

Created / Published

  • 1915.

Genre

  • Glass negatives

Notes

  • -  Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection.
  • -  Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955.
  • -  General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec
  • -  Temp. note: Batch one.

Repository

Digital Id

  • hec 06467 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hec.06467

[Map of the several nations of Indians to the Northwest of South Carolina].

Teaching Notes

  3 - 5    6 - 8    9 - 12    13+    Social Studies/History    Native American    Map  

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2005625337/

Reference note

Created / Published

  • [S.l. : s.n., 1929]

Notes

  • -  "This map describing the scituation [sic] of the several nations of Indians to the NW of South Carolina was coppyed [sic] from a draught drawn & painted on a deer skin by an Indian Cacique and presented to Francis Nicholson Esqr. Governor of South Carolina by whom it is most humbly dedicated to his Royal Highness George, Prince of Wales."
  • -  "A map, sometimes known as the 'Catawba Deerskin Map', describing the situation of the several nations of the Indians to the north-west of South Carolina."--British Library.
  • -  LC Many nations, 191
  • -  Exhibition: Indians of North America, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., August, 1977.
  • -  Photocopy of map now in the British Library: Add. MS 4723.
  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
  • -  LC copy has some lines marked in red.

Repository

  • Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu

Digital Id

LOC Arizona.png

Teaching Notes

  3 - 5    6 - 8    9 - 12    13+    Library    Social Studies/History    Native American    Arizona  

Image 34 of School history of Florida,

Teaching Notes

  3 - 5    6 - 8    9 - 12    13+    Social Studies/History    Native American    Florida    Apalachee  

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcmassbookdig.schoolhistoryoff01gree/?sp=34&r=-0.271,0.419,1.691,0.727,0

Reference note

Created / Published

  • Baltimore Williams & Wilkins company, 1898.

Notes

  • -  "Some works relating to Florida": 6th prelim. leaf.
  • -  Also available in digital form.

The wedding of Pocahontas with John Rolfe / Geo Spohni.

Teaching Notes

  3 - 5    6 - 8    9 - 12    13+    Art/Music    Social Studies/History    Native American  

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2006677657

Reference note

Summary

  • Print showing large gathering of Natives and Englishmen for an outdoor wedding ceremony between Pocahontas and John Rolfe.

Created / Published

  • Philadelphia : Published by Joseph Hoover, 719 Samson St., c1867.

Genre

  • Lithographs--1860-1870

Notes

  • -  Title from item.
  • -  Signed on stone "Hohenstein" on lower left.
  • -  Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1867 by Joseph Hoover in the clerks Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Repository

Digital Id

Order of Red Men

Teaching Notes

  3 - 5    6 - 8    9 - 12    13+    Art/Music    Social Studies/History    Native American  

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2006677692/

Reference note

Summary

  • Print showing a certificate, or "Redmens Diploma Legendary & Historical Chart" for the Society of Red Men, surrounded by vignettes of scenes from Native life and culture.

Created / Published

  • Phila. : Burk & McFetridge, c1889.

Genre

  • Certificates--1880-1890
  • Chromolithographs--Color--1880-1890

Notes

  • -  36918 U.S. Copyright Office.
  • -  Title from item.
  • -  The oldest and only correct chart of the order. Designed and published by P.G.S.M.H. Gorham, G.S.D. 380. Improved G.S.D. 397 by P.S. Wm. G. Hollis.
  • -  Copyrighted, 1887 and 1888. by W.C. Hollis, Philadelphia, Penna.
  • -  Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1871, by Morris H. Gorham in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D.C.

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital Id

  • pga 03413 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pga.03413

The Pensacola journal., October 17, 1909, Section 2, Image 9

Teaching Notes

  3 - 5    6 - 8    9 - 12    13+    Social Studies/History    Economics    Florida    Native American  

Reference link: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87062268/1909-10-17/ed-1/seq-9

Reference note

Newspaper: The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985
Newspaper Link: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87062268/1909-10-17/ed-1/seq-9
Image provided by: University of Florida
PDF Link: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87062268/1909-10-17/ed-1/seq-9.pdf

NATIVE AMERICAN EDITION LESSON PS-SS-sort-Activity.pdf

Teaching Notes

  3 - 5    6 - 8    9 - 12    13+    Art/Music    English/Language Arts    Library    Social Studies/History    Native American    Florida    Seminole  Here is the Lesson Plan for this Album.

After this lesson plan I have included the additional resources that you may choose to use.  They include an additional political cartoon, photograph, map, painting, article, artifact, and music video.

Download File

[Exercises of the youths]

Teaching Notes

THIS IS A SECONDARY SOURCE FOR NATIVE AMERICANS BECAUSE THE ARTIST WAS LISTENING TO EXPLORERS DESCRIBE WHAT THEY SAW...AND HE PUBLISHED THEIR MEMORIES.  This is a Primary Source for how Europeans viewed Native Americans, artistic styles, and technology (what the printing press of the time could produce).

Reference link: https://www.loc.gov/item/2001696960/

Reference note

Summary

  • Native youths shooting arrows, throwing balls at target placed atop tall pole, and running races.

Created / Published

  • [1591]

Genre

  • Book illustrations--1590-1600
  • Watercolors--1560-1570--Reproductions--1590-1600
  • Engravings--1590-1600

Notes

  • -  Illus. in: Brevis narratio eorvm qvæ in Florida Americæ provi̇cia Gallis acciderunt, : secunda in illam nauigatione, duce Renato de Laudōniere ... anno MDLXIIII. Qvae est secvnda pars Americae ... / Auctore Iacobo Le Moyne, cui cognomen de Morgues ... Nunc primùm Gallico sermone à Theodoro de Bry Leodiense in lucem edita: Latio verò donata a C. C. A. Francoforti ad Moenvm : Typis I. Wecheli, sumtibus vero T. de Bry, venales reperiūtur in officina S. Feirabēdii, 1591 [plate] 36.
  • -  Engraving by Theodor de Bry after watercolor by Jacques Le Moyne.
  • -  Title transcribed from Lorant, p. 107.
  • -  The New World [...] / Lorant, ed. New York : Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1965, p. 107
  • -  Reference copy in LOT 4411-C.

Repository

  • Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital Id

  • cph 3a38350 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a38350

'Shea - Seminole Wind'

Teaching Notes

  3 - 5    6 - 8    9 - 12    13+    Art/Music    Social Studies/History    Native American    Florida    Seminole  

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJcNFIczroU

Reference note

'Music video by Shea performing Seminole Wind. (C) 2009 First American Music and Entertainment, LLC licensed exclusively to Mighty Loud, LLC'

Additional Resources: Raree - show on the banks of the Mississippi, or The gentle European among the rude sons of nature / Cruikshank del.

Teaching Notes

  3 - 5    6 - 8    9 - 12    13+    Art/Music    Social Studies/History    Native American    Fashion  

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/resource/pga.05740

Reference note

Summary

  • Print shows a Native man wearing European clothing and a native headdress, standing between a group of Natives sitting on the ground on the right and a platform or stage, on the left, on which three Europeans, wearing somewhat exaggerated European clothing and hairstyles, are on exhibit for the Natives

Created / Published

  • [between 1820 and 1860]

Genre

  • Etchings--Hand-colored--1820-1860

Notes

  • -  Title from item.
  • -  Caption continues: Messvorstellungen am Mississippi, oder die zahmen Europaen unter den Wilden.

Repository

Digital Id

  • pga 05740 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pga.05740

Image 65 of The Seminoles of Florida (click on the link and rotate)

Teaching Notes

  3 - 5    6 - 8    9 - 12    13+    Social Studies/History    Native American    Florida    Seminole  

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcmassbookdig.seminolesofflori00moor/?sp=65&r=-0.266,-0.085,1.533,1.705,270

Reference note

Created / Published

  • [s.l. : s.n.], 1896

Notes

  • -  "Vocabulary of the Seminole language": p. 255-281.
  • -  Also available in digital form.

Map of the Indian tribes of North America, about 1600 A.D. along the Atlantic, & about 1800 A.D. westwardly

Teaching Notes

  3 - 5    6 - 8    9 - 12    13+    Art/Music    Social Studies/History    Native American    English/Language Arts    Seminole    Map  

Reference link: https://www.loc.gov/item/2002622260/

Reference note

Created / Published

  • [Washington, D.C.] : The Society, [1836]

Notes

  • -  Relief shown pictorially.
  • -  "Pendleton's Lithography."
  • -  From: American Antiquarian Society. Transactions and collections. Vol. 2, 1836, fol. p. 264.
  • -  Hand colored to show the location of Indian tribes and 11 linguistic families.
  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Repository

  • Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu

Digital Id

A Hopi Indian Sa'lakwmana katsina doll, created in the 1890s, displayed at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, a private, not-for-profit museum to the advancement of American Indian art. The doll, made of cottonwood root, paint, and kaolin (a type of clay), was a gift of Barry Goldwater during the years that he was a United States senator from Arizona (1953-1964 and 1969-1987)

Teaching Notes

  3 - 5    6 - 8    9 - 12    13+    Art/Music    Social Studies/History    Native American    Hopi    Arizona  

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2018703092/

Reference note

Created / Published

  • 2018-11-19.

Genre

  • Digital photographs--Color--2010-2020

Notes

  • -  Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.
  • -  Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112)
  • -  Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
  • -  Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Repository

Digital Id

They reach Port Royal

Teaching Notes

THIS IS A PRIMARY SOURCE BECAUSE THE ARTIST ACTUALLY SAW WHAT HE WAS DRAWING!

Reference link: https://www.loc.gov/item/2001696148

Reference note

Summary

  • French expedition exploring Port Royal showing habitat, wildlife, and Native encampment.

Created / Published

  • [1591]

Genre

  • Book illustrations--1590-1600
  • Watercolors--1560-1570--Reproductions--1590-1600
  • Engravings--1590-1600

Notes

  • -  Illus. in: Brevis narratio eorvm qvæ in Florida Americæ provi̇cia Gallis acciderunt, : secunda in illam nauigatione, duce Renato de Laudōniere ... anno MDLXIIII. Qvae est secvnda pars Americae ... / Auctore Iacobo Le Moyne, cui cognomen de Morgues ... Nunc primùm Gallico sermone à Theodoro de Bry Leodiense in lucem edita: Latio verò donata a C. C. A. Francoforti ad Moenvm : Typis I. Wecheli, sumtibus vero T. de Bry, venales reperiūtur in officina S. Feirabēdii, 1591 [plate] 5.
  • -  Engraving by Theodor de Bry after watercolor by Jacques Le Moyne.
  • -  Title transcribed from Lorant, p. 45.
  • -  The New World [...] / Lorant, ed. New York : Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1965, p. 45
  • -  Reference copy in LOT 4411.

Repository

  • Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital Id

  • cph 3a04325 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a04325
  • cph 3b00493 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b00493

The first Thanksgiving 1621 / J.L.G. Ferris.

Teaching Notes

  Art/Music    Social Studies/History    3 - 5    6 - 8    9 - 12    13+    Native American    Thanksgiving  

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2001699850/

Reference note

Summary

  • Pilgrims and Natives gather to share meal.

Created / Published

  • Cleveland, Ohio : The Foundation Press, Inc., c1932.

Genre

  • Oil paintings--Reproductions--1930-1940
  • Halftone photomechanical prints--Color--1930-1940

Notes

  • -  K17395 U.S. Copyright Office.
  • -  Reproduction of oil painting from series: The Pageant of a Nation.
  • -  No. 6.
  • -  Copyright by The Foundation Press, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital Id

  • cph 3g04961 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g04961
  • cph 3a17442 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a17442

General George Washington talks with Native American[Newspaper articles and notices printed in 1787 during the Constitutional Convention in Phila.]

Teaching Notes

  3 - 5    6 - 8    9 - 12    13+    English/Language Arts    Social Studies/History    George Washington    Native American    Continental Congress    Philadelphia  

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2002705837

Reference note

Summary

  • Meeting of Sconstayeh, A Cherokee emissary, with George Washington, to protest encroachment of whites on Indian lands.

Created / Published

  • 1787 June 16.

Notes

  • -  Illus. in: Pennsylvania Packet.
  • -  Ref. copy may be in E302.5.U6 (P&P Ref.).
  • -  This record contains unverified data from caption card.
  • -  Caption card tracings: Const., U.S.; Congr. & Conv.; Pres.; B.I.; Indians Cherokee; Indians Govt. Rel.

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital Id

  • cph 3b25112 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b25112