Use these resources to provide a better understanding of North American First People’s Day celebrated the first Monday in October in Summit County, Ohio.
Resources are curated at the Sithsonian Learning Lab.
North American First People’s Day – Akron– history, images, resources
Native Cultures and Peoples (of what we now call) Ohio – prehistory, historic, today
Essential Understandings about American Indians – Currated from the National Museum of American Indians
JVONAEC exhibit – Jim & Vanita Oelschlager Native American Ethnographic Collection at the University of Akron
The Portage Path – history, images, resources
Portage Path Collaborative – history, images, resources
Native Americans in the Media – history, images, resources