CONTENTS

The Next
Electronic Field Trip is

Missions to America
November 6, 2003

Between the early 1600s and early 1700s, Native American culture changed significantly. Contact with European settlers introduced not only conflict but also a variety of trade goods that were quickly adopted into Native American culture. Learn More.

Primary sources are not always written documents. They can also be buildings, archaeological artifacts, or other objects of material culture. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation owns a large, varied, and wonderful collection of objects that reveal a tremendous amount of information about 18th-century daily life and culture.This month's primary source is a pair of Indian Moccasins.

Any Internet search for information on Native Americans will yield an astonishing number of sites to explore. So where do you begin? This article offers a starter list of Web sites with content and links dealing with Native Americans and the European contact period. Learn More!

Colonial Williamsburg offers a variety of quality instructional materials dealing with 18th-century life, including:
—Duel in the Wilderness (book)
—The Journal of Major George Washington (book)
—The Rise And Fall Of The Powhatan Empire: Indians In Seventeenth-Century Virginia (book)
—A Day in the Life (instructional video series)
—Hands-On History: Slave's Bag (object kit)
—Hands-On History: Lady's Pocket (object kit)
—Mary Geddy's Day (book)
—If You Lived in Williamsburg in Colonial Days (book)
—The Eye of the Beholder: Looking at Primary Sources (lesson unit)

Learn More!

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is proud to announce its partnership with educational publisher Pearson Scott Foresman! We will be exhibiting at the NCSS conference in Chicago November 13–15, 2003. If you are attending the conference, please stop our booths (1204-1210). We'd love to see you! Learn More about NCSS 2003.

Micmac Indian elder's speech (1677)
transcribed by Christian LeClerq,
a French Jesuit missionary