Analyze how the expansion of the United States was influenced by the availability of natural resources
Explain how the exploitation of natural resources sometimes led to unintended environmental consequences.
DWU: Read "The Indian View of Nature" and describe how the natives use the natural resources around them and how they view their relationship with the earth?
After a buffalo hunt list all the ways you the natives would/could use the buffalo they killed.
Watch the video clip from "Dances With Wolves" then ...
1. Explain how the exploitation of natural resources sometimes led to unintended environmental consequences.
Define exploitation, unintended, and consequences then answer the question.
2. Analyze how the Americans that moved west used the natural resources.
3. How can the idea of Manifest Destiny be used by those moving west to justify their actions?
DUE Tomorrow
Write a journal entry about the buffalo hunt to express your thoughts/reaction. You can write it from the point of view of the natives, the Americans moving west, or the buffalo and can be written at the time it happened or a point in the future looking back on what happened. It must be at least a paragraph or two.