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Grade 5 2-5, 2-6

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Oklahoma Academic Standard 2. The student will compare the developments of the New England Colonies, the Middle Colonies, and the Southern Colonies.

Objectives:
5.2.5  Explain the evolving relationships between American Indians and the British colonists involving territorial claims. 

5.2.6  Explain that tribal sovereignty is a tribal nation’s inherent right to self-govern.

In a Nutshell

This objective focuses on the very complex and changing nature of the relationship between colonists and indigenous peoples. Tension continued to rise as colonists continued to migrate into Indian lands. Students should understand that both groups were responsible for aggression against each other and truces were often made and broken by both sides. Students should also develop an understanding that because indigenous people inhabited North America prior to the European discovery, tribal sovereignty is a significant and inherent right. The authority and right to self-government of American Indian nations was never granted; therefore, it was never capable of being taken away. Students should examine the fact that the inherent sovereignty of tribes was acknowledged by the United States through the process of treaty negotiations between two sovereign nations dating as early as the colonial era.

Teacher Action 

Student Action 

  • Provide opportunities for students to compare perspectives of individuals and groups such as indigenous people and European colonists.

  • Assist students in answering geographic questions by organizing information about regions of the United States from historical perspectives related to territorial claims. 

  • Assist students engaging in collaborative discussions about appropriate topics, such as sovereignty and self rule, expressing ideas clearly to others in diverse groups and whole class settings.

  • Assist students in describing the specific contributions of American Indian nations who have shaped significant historical changes in regional and national events in North America. 

  • Compare the experiences that form other’s points of view about civic issues, such as sovereignty of indigenous groups and inherent rights of tribal homelands.

  • Use maps and other geographic representations to explain the spatial relationships between the original homelands of American Indians and lands claimed by the colonists. 

  • Compare perspectives of individuals and groups during the same historical period.

  • Identify democratic principles in historic documents and circumstances to describe principles at work in various settings.

 

Key Concepts 

Misconceptions 

  • indigenous people, homeland, hunting grounds

  • truce, treaty, fur trade, finished trade goods 

  • cooperative and friendly relationships versus hostilities resulting in armed conflict

  • King Philip's War, Philip (Metacom), sachem 

  • Iroquois League established to resist European encroachment 

  • perspectives on land ownership (individual versus communal) 

  • sovereignty, self-government, self-determination, self-rule, inherent right, authority, treaty 
  • Some students may have difficulty understanding the differences between Indian and non-Indian perspectives toward land ownership which would often lead to armed conflict between the two groups. 

  • Some students may have the misconception that colonial governments and the subsequent national government of the United States bestowed or granted Indian tribes the right to self-rule; when in fact, it was an inherent right as sovereign nations prior to the arrival of Europeans. 

Instructional Resources

Access suggested instructional resources correlated to the learning standard and objective.

 

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