Unit 4The Minority Experience

In this unit we will take time to investigate the experiences of Native Americans,

African Americans, and women.

LT1: I can analyze the interaction between Native American Cultures and colonial Europeans

• Native American background information– Pope’s Rebellion -

http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/i_r/pope.htm – http://people.duke.edu/~egw4/pueblo/narrative.html

• Spain’s encomienda system– http://latinamericanhistory.about.com/od/theconquestof

peru/p/Spain-S-American-Colonies-And-The-Encomienda-System.htm

• Native Americans on the eve of British Colonization– http://www.ushistory.org/us/1.asp

LT2: I can analyze and evaluate federal and state policies toward American Indians in the

first half of the 19th Century• Corps of Discovery

– http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/native/ – http://www.edgate.com/lewisandclark/indian_country.html

• Background on the Age of Jackson – http://www.ushistory.org/us/24.asp

• Background material for the Trail of Tears– http://www.ushistory.org/us/24f.asp

• Videos covering the Trail of Tears– http://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/trail-of

-tears

– http://www.schooltube.com/video/10ab73bc9f1d4dc89014/AndrewJackson-TrailofTears/

LT3: I can analyze significant events for Native American tribes and their responses to those events in the late 19th Century

• Closing of the American Frontier– http://www.ushistory.org/us/40.asp

• Indian Wars of the late 1800s– http://amhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/printable/section.as

p?id=6

• Impact of the Railroad on Native Americans– http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/ge

neral-article/tcrr-tribes/

• Significance of the Buffalo to the Plains Indians– http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/program/episodes/five/

whitemanspipe.htm

– http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/program/episodes/five/woundinheart.htm

• An interview with Donald Fixico, Thomas Bowlus Distinguished Professor of American Indian History and Director of the Center for Indigenous Nations Studies at the University of Kansas– http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperienc

e/features/interview/tcrr-interview/

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