Online Essays

Archeology

• Archeology Today: An Overview of How Archeologists Do Their Work
• Archeology in the Field: A Photo Essay
• Excavating the Grand Village of the Kaskaskias
• Learning at the Gottschall Rock Shelter (Currently this is an offsite link)
  • Robert Salzer's Research at the Gottschall Rock Shelter (A Video Lecture)
• The Mound Builder Debate
• The Woodland Era in Illinois
• The Hopewell Mound Builders
• Effigy Mound People
• Mississippian Peoples
• The Mississippian Worldview
• The "Big Bang" of 1050: The Rise and Fall of Cahokia
• Mississippian Influences to the North

History

• Mapping Native Illinois
• "A Century of Progress": The Portrayal of Indians in American History Textbooks
• American History and the Invention of "Savagery"
• Starved Rock: History, Legends, and Lore
• Father Marquette's Journal of His Journey Through the Illinois Country
• Marie Rouensa: A Cultural Mediator
• The Fox Wars
• Helen Tanner Discusses the Grenville Treaty and the Illinois Country
• Black Hawk:Myth and Reality
• Assembling Illinois: A State Built by Treaties
• The Last Treaty in Illinois
• Carlos Montezuma: An American Indian Intellectual in Illinois
• The Miami Land Claim Case
• Chicago's Native Monuments

Anthropology

• Pamela Alfonso: A Contemporary Native American Woman Discusses Her Life
• From Removal to Relocation: Native American People Return to Illinois
• American Indians at Chicago's Columbian Exposition: A Case Study
• A Short Study Guide for Mountain Wolf Woman's Autobiography
• Naming Illinois: A Case Study of Language and Landscape
• Ivan Dozier discusses Native People and Illinois Land
• Kickapoo Homecoming (adapted from the Bloomington Pantagraph (5/31/1998))
• Susan Power: A Native Novelist and her Work
• "Carry Our Prayers..." : A Contemporary Indian Story by Larry Lockwood
• An Interview with Larry Lockwood
• Other Interviews: <<<Debbie?, John?, Wanda? NAH Fellows?>>>
• Chicago's Fifty Years of Powwows
• Native Art and Artists <<<Will's Pages (?) along with student submission>>>
• Daryl Baldwin discusses the Miami -Illinois Language today (A Video Lecture)