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Week One: Native American and Indigenous Conceptions of Land
Week One: Native American and Indigenous Conceptions of Land
Monday
Who lived originally on this land?
Visit https://native-land.ca
Look for your address and/or city. Can also look up where family and friends live.
Write a list of who has lived on this land.
Look at an Indigenous Land Acknowledgement - read and highlight what stands out to you
The University of Texas’s Land Acknowledgement is:
We would like to acknowledge that we are writing this curriculum on the indigenous lands of Turtle Island, the ancestral name for what is now called North America.
We would like to acknowledge and pay our respects to the Alabama-Coushatta, Caddo, Carrizo & Comecrudo, Coahuiltecan, Comanche, Kickapoo, Lipan Apache, Tigua Pueblo, Tonkawa, Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo all the American Indian and Indigenous Peoples and communities who have been or have become a part of these lands and territories in Texas
Tuesday + Wednesday
Why does it matter where you get your information?
Learn about Primary and Secondary Sources
Watch:https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=67&v=LV7aZiJABag&feature=emb_logo
Watch:https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=84&v=cqXHO7bTPnw&feature=emb_logo
Write:
What are the differences between primary and secondary sources? What kinds of different information and understanding can you get from each?
Look at example of Primary Source http://www.tonkawatribe.com
Look at example of Secondary Source: Look up Tonkawa in Index of Social Studies Alive Textbook.
Write: What differences do you notice in a) the information, b) the perspective, c) the details
Thursday
Who lived here?
Write a list of who has lived on this land (from Monday’s website)
Write/Draw/Explain: How did/do the original caretakers conceptualize the land we live on?
Write/Draw/Explain: What is an example of how they honor and think about the land now?
Friday
Discussion, Create Padlet and Update
Week Two: Relationships with the land for Native American and Indigenous Regions in the U.S.
Week Two: Relationships with the land for Native American and Indigenous Regions in the U.S.
Monday
Who lived where across the U.S. pre European contact?
Study map of Native Northern America topography without current state boundaries (can be purchased for download):
http://www.tribalnationsmaps.com/store/p343/Native_America_-_Topographical_-_24%22x36%22.html
Post to Padlet and Write: What are different land types across the U.S. and what are 1-2 tribes you have heard of living in each type of color/land type
Tuesday
Does it matter who makes the maps? Who tells the story of America’s beginning?
Read: https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/new-pre-contact-map-transforming-understanding-of-south-america-ZwQqEgjcEEOkfiBCD7xyKw
Make a 1-2 min video summarizing what you learned from the article and the map
Wednesday
What is Counter Mapping?
Watch: https://emergencemagazine.org/story/counter-mapping/
Post to Padlet and Write: What is counter mapping? Why is it important?
Thursday
Native American Knowledge of the land comes out forming relationships
Watch again: https://emergencemagazine.org/story/counter-mapping/
Post to Padlet and Write: What does he know about the land? What do you learn about the land from him? What parts of the land does he care for?
Add to your video or make new showing how your knowledge has grown since Tuesday.
Friday
Discussion and share movies
Week 3: The Relationship between Land, Culture, Language and Lives for Indigenous Americans
Week 3: The Relationship between Land, Culture, Language and Lives for Indigenous Americans
Monday
Actively working against maps
Post to Padlet and Write: What did you learn? What does this make you realize?
Tuesday
Counter-Map Where YOU Live
Walk from your house to the end of the street. What do you notice?
Take pictures of all that you notice about the land - as many as possible.
Brainstorm on paper: What do you learn about the land when you pay attention as indigenous people do?
Brainstorm on paper: What do you learn about yourself?
Wednesday
Print out pictures and a create a map on large paper
Thursday
Continue with map project
Ask 2 neighbors to point out what they notice and think about from our house to the wedge.
Take pictures of what they point out.
Print out pictures and compare to yours
Friday
Present and Share Maps; Gallery Walk
Week 4: Indigenous Communities pre-European contact and how maps changed over time
Week 4: Indigenous Communities pre-European contact and how maps changed over time
Monday
U.S. Map changes over time
Post to Padlet and Write: What do you notice? What is missing?
Post to Padlet and Write: What do you notice?
Tuesday
Compare Native American Map to U.S. White-Centric map
Look at US “traditional” map usually referenced at school
https://www.thoughtco.com/capitals-of-the-fifty-states-1435160
Compare to Tribal Nations Map from the first week
Post to Padlet and Write: What do you notice?
Wednesday
Post to Padlet and Write: How do Native American communities account for the land becoming owned and “claimed”?
Thursday
Preparing for Native American Project
Post to Padlet and Write: Did you get schooled? Be honest!
Friday
Introduce Native American Community Unit; Update Padlet
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