Essential Questions
Essential Questions
Resources
Elementary
How does physical geography affect Northwest Tribes' culture, economy, and where they choose to settle and trade?
Native America First Look
Washington Tribes - Preserving Culture 2016
Renewing Indigenous Economies
2. What is the legal status of the Tribes who negotiated or who did not enter into United States treaties?
George Washington Treaty
Washington Tribes Explained
Talking with Grandpa Sohappy about Yakama Treaties
3. What were the political, economic, and cultural forces that led to the treaties?
Native American History for Kids ( In ASL)
The Renewing Indigenous Economics Project
The Word Indigenous - Explained
4. What are the ways in which Tribes respond to the threats and outside pressure to extinguish their cultures and independence?
Saved by the Salmon
Grand Coulee Dam and the Forgotten Tribe
Preserving the Ways - Culture and Traditions
5. What do local Tribes do to meet the challenges of reservation life: and, as sovereign nations, what do local Tribes do to meet the economic and cultural needs of their Tribal communities?
Real Life As a Native American
Indigenous Sovereignty, Language and Culture
This River Runs Forever - Yakama Nation Values
Middle School
How does the physical geography affect Northwest Tribes' culture, economy, and where they choose to settle and trade?
American Heritage: Native American Documentary for Middle School
Native Americans and Jobs: The Challenge and The Promise
Native American Trade Feast MOAI (2019)
2. What is the legal status of the Tribes who negotiated or who did not enter into United States treaties?
What are treaties and why are treaties still relevant?
Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nation
The "Indian Problem"
3. What were the political, economic, and cultural forces that led to the treaties?
Indian Pride 102; Treaties & Sovereignty
Indigenous Nation Treaties
Decolonization Is for Everyone
4. What are the ways in which Tribes respond to the threats and outside pressure to extinguish their cultures and independence?
History Summarized: Iroquois Native Americans
'America is a stolen country'
America's Great Indian Nations - Full Length Documentary
5. What do local Tribes do to meet the challenges of reservation life; and, as sovereign nations, do to meet the economic and cultural needs of their Tribal communities?
6 Misconceptions About Native American People
Life on the Reservation... Presented by Partnership With Native Americans
A Native American Talks About the Relationship Between Native People and the Rest of America
High School
How does the physical geography affect Northwest Tribes' culture, economy, and where they choose to settle and trade?
Native Americans Know How Place Affects Health
Native Americans Climate and Geography
Myths and Misconceptions About the Native Tribes of North America
2. What is the legal status of the Tribes who negotiated or who did not enter into United States treaties?
Important of Tribes : Revisited
When The Supreme Court Tried to Prevent Indian Removal | Worcester v. Georgia
The Indian Act: What to do with it
3. What were the political, economic, and cultural forces that led to the treaties?
Native Americans, Left out of the Economic Debate
Sacred Sites
Native American Civil Rights
4. What are the ways in which Tribes respond to the threats and outside pressure to extinguish their cultures and independence?
Native Language
6 Stories Celebrations
Indigenous People
5. What do local Tribes do to meet the challenges of reservation life; and, as sovereign nations, do to meet the economic and cultural needs of their Tribal communities?
Inside Life on the Lakota
"Life on the Rez"
Reservation Life Panel