Early Indigenous History (Teaching with Historic Places)

Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) uses historic places in National Parks and in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places to enliven history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects. Here you’ll find place-based educational resources relating to early Indigenous history. Discover more resources at the Teaching with Historic Places homepage.

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  Gran Quivira

  Examine the changing lifeways of the inhabitants of this village from the 7th century to the arrival of the Spanish in the early 17th.

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  Digging into the Colonial Past

  Discover the site of a 16th-century Spanish town that was founded before Roanoke, Jamestown, and Plymouth.

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