Guiding Questions
Overall:
How do government policies impact the experience of groups within the US?
Who is the government trying to uplift?
Do government policies determine the success of groups within the US?
Case Study:
Has Native American resistance been successful?
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POLICIES - Extra Resources
1830 Removal Act - Andrew Jackson
PBS Article: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2959.html
National Geographic: Indian Removal Act
History.com: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/indian-removal-act-signed-andrew-jackson
Constitution Center: https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/historic-document-library/detail/indian-removal-act-1830
(Video) Smithsonian: How the Brutal Trail of Tears Got Its Name
(Primary Resources) Library of Congress: Indian Removal Act: Primary Documents in American History
Reservations / Indian Appropriations Acts
Indian Reservations from history.com
Indian Appropriations Acts from University of Maryland
(Video) PBS: Native American Reservations, Explained
(Primary Resources) DPLA: Reservations, Resistance, and the Indian Reorganization Act, 1900-1940
Boarding Schools
Washington Post: They took the children
National Museum of the American Indian: Struggling with Cultural Repression
PBS: Legacy of Trauma: The Impact of American Indian Boarding Schools Across Generations (resource list included)
Dept of Interior: Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative (*Includes Oral History Project)
(Video/ Full Documentary) PBS: America's Native American Boarding Schools
(Primary Resources) Library of Congress: Native American Boarding Schools
Dakota Access Pipeline
NRDC: Dakota Access Pipeline: What You Need to Know (2024)
NPR: Key Moments in the Dakota Access Pipeline Fight (*2017)
Smithsonian: Treaties Still Matter: The Dakota Access Pipeline
RESISTANCE - Extra Resources
Freedom Center (Interactive Timeline): US Settler Colonialism & Native American Resistance
(Video) Democracy Now: "We're Still Here": Indigenous Peoples Day Celebration Reflects Ongoing Resistance to Colonization
National Park Service: The Struggle For Sovereignty
Museum of American Indian/Smithsonian: Resisting Removal
NEH: Trails of Tears, Plural: What We Don't Know About Indian Removal
Carleton College: Resistance and Indian Boarding Schools
Britannica: Standing Rock Protests
ABC News (Video + text): Timeline of Dakota Access Pipeline Protests (*2016)
University of Arizona Rogers College of Law: UN Report: Indigenous Resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline
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CLASS RESOURCES (Pulled from Google Classroom Classwork)
Main Text: An Indigenous People's History of the United States for Young People by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (Linked to eBook on Sora)
20 - Repairing Harm
A Sorry Saga (article from class)
Text of Apology (text from class)
T&R Commission Website (text from class)
Has Canada achieved reconciliation? (video from class)
Canada settles $2 Billion Suit (article from class)
Canada Reaches $40 Billion Compensation Agreement (video from class)
What is the Land Back Movement ? (video from class)
Landback! NDN Collectie Website (text from class)
19 - Standing Rock
Video (from class) - Rise excerpts Latimer, Michelle, executive producer. 2017. Rise. Episodes 1 and 2. Vice Studio Canada.
NPR/AP (from class): Future of controversial Dakota Access Pipeline's river crossing remains unclear (from class)
Scroll down (from class) for Spills Along the Bakken System from The Intercept
18 - Indigenous People's Day
17 - National Museum of the American Indian
Jeffrey Veregge: Of Gods and Heroes (from class)
Native New York (from class)
16 - Legal Resistance
Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) (from class: Primary Source)
Great Sioux War -- Black Hills Map (from class: Primary Source)
PBS: Why the Sioux Are Refusing $1.3 Billion (from class: Secondary Source)
The Guardian: The Battle for Mount Rushmore (from class: Secondary Source)
15 - New Resistance and New Laws
Pages 187-200 (from class) from An Indigenous People's History of the United States for Young People
14 - Alcatraz
Video (in class) - Trudell (10:20-14:30)
11 & 12 - Boarding Schools
NYTimes Interactive Map (from class): https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/30/us/native-american-boarding-schools.html
WNYC Podcast (from class): Indian Boarding Schools Are Not ancient History
10 - Reservations: "Indian Country"
9 - From Sea to Shining Sea
Video #1 (from class): Pope, Tewa Pueblo Revolutionary (PBS)
Video #2 (from class): Native American History: The Pueblo
7 - Resistance to Removal
6 - Andrew Jackson - Removal
Video (from class) - Exterminate All the Brutes Episode 2 (47:22-50:25)(53:14-57:04)
5 - Birth of a Nation
Indigenous Alliances in the Ohio Country (Excerpt from An Indigenous People's History of the United States for Young People)
4 - British Colonization & Genocide
Video (from class) - Powhatan Nation and Jamestown From: Peck, Raoul, dir. 2021. Exterminate All the Brutes. Episode 1. HBO Documentary Films. (21:05-23:00)
3 - American Origin Stories & Settler Colonialism
This Land (Excerpt from class)
2 - Indigenous Society & Culture
PBS Trailer (from class): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJy9STLb9IU&t=169s
1 - Land Acknowledgments
NPR (from class): https://www.npr.org/2023/03/15/1160204144/indigenous-land-acknowledgments
Native Land Map (from class /interactive): https://native-land.ca/