Suggestions for National History Day Projects

• Arthur Barlowe and the Roanoke Colony
• Bro. Agustin Rodriguez and Francisco Sanchez Chamuscado’s expedition into New Mexico
• Cabeza de Vaca, Indian Advocate
• Catherine, the Iroquois Saint
• Competing and conflicting ideas about property
• Curiosity: Were the two peoples equally curious about each other?
• Differing ideas about the relationships of humans to the natural world
• Dominican Missions in California
• Don Juan Oñate
• Don Pedro de Peralta and the Founding of Santa Fe
• European reactions to the songs and ceremonies of the Northeastern American Indians
• Exploring the Mississippi: Marquette & Joliet
• Fr. Eusebio Francisco Kino and the Missions in the Southwest
• Fr. Jean Claude Allouez and the Mission of St. Francis Xavier
• Fr. Jean Francois Buisson de St. Cosme and the Mission at Cahokia
• Fr. Junipero Serra and the California Missions
• Sir Francis Drake: Military leader or pirate?
• Gallinee and Casson Map Lakes Ontario and Erie
• Georg Wilhelm Steller and the Bering Voyage
• George Popham and the Sagadahoc Colony
• George Waymouth and Elizabethan colonial efforts
• Gold: differences and similarities in Indian and European reactions to precious metals
• Richard Hakluyt and the promotion of explorations
• Sir Humfrey Gilbert
• James Cook Charts the Pacific
• Jaques Cartier of St. Malo
• Jean Nicolet and the Ho-Chunk
• Jesuit Missionaries
• John Brereton
• John Hawkins of Plymouth, England
• John White and the first pictures of North America
• Juan Dominguez de Mendoza Seeks Pearls in the Nueces River
• Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo and the discovery of the “South Sea”
• Luys Hernandez de Biedma and the de Soto Expedition
• Medical practices and theories of the two peoples
• Medical practices during exploration and early settlement in America
• Methods of communication between Europeans and indigenous peoples
• Mining in the Colonial Southwest
• Missionaries in the Southwest [. . . in the Northeast; . . . in the South, . . . etc.]
• Navajo-Churro sheep: residue from early explorations
• Nicolas Perrot and Trade with the Indians of the Upper Mississippi
• Pierre Espirit Radisson and the founding of the Hudson Bay Company
• Presence or absence of racial stereotypes during the contact period
• Ralph Lane and the Roanoke Voyages
• Raymbault and Jogues Expedition to the Sault St. Marie
• Rene Laudonierre and the French Huguenots in Florida
• Robert Hore of London and his Ill-fated Voyage to Canada
• Role of Christianity in European exploration, discovery, and development
• Sebastian Vizcaino and pre-1580s trade between Mexico and Asia
• Significance of European monotheism as opposed to the Indians’ pantheism
• Spanish reactions to the buffalo
• Spanish/English/French concepts of the rights of Indians
• Sulpicion Missionaries in the New World
• The Chamuscado Expedition, and Illegal Entry into New Mexico
• The development and extension of El Camino Real
• The nail: Its significance in early travel and settlement of Europeans in America
• The Pageant of 1671 and Ritual Taking of Possession
• The Rodríguez Expedition from Santa Bárbara to New Mexico
• The role of alcohol in European commerce with the Indians
• The significance of guns and gunpowder in European-Indian relationships
• The tragedy at Acoma Pueblo
• The Treaty of St. Germain
• Trade goods in European-Indian commerce
• William Bartram: Botanist and Observer