Sponsored by Conner Prairie, an AAM accredited open-air living history museum located in Fishers, this Website features a wealth of materials concerning "the lives, times, attitudes, and values of early 19th-century settlers in the Old Northwest Territory, based upon the Indiana experience." Visitors to the site's Learning Pages will find full-text articles on dozens of pertinent topics, including Women's Legal Issues, Western Immigration, Early Indian Policies, Religion in Indiana in the 1830s, 19th-Century Politics, Farms and Farming, Travel and Transportation, and more. There are also primary documents here including significant official documents of early Indiana history and memoirs and diaries of public officials and pioneers. Educators and individuals interested in visiting this open-air museum will find a plethora of materials describing opportunities for educational participation at the museum. An impressive, very moderately priced distance learning program is also substantially previewed here.
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