Treat Indigenous oral tradition as a PRIMARY historical source with appropriate cultural protocol
Exercise Difficulty 3 ~3 min hist.g2.f.cul.oral_tradition_primary.ex_02

Is It Primary

Prompt

Is Tim Tingle's Choctaw story a primary source? Defend your answer in 2 sentences.

How it's presented
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Answer criteria
type argue with reasons
rubric
YES + reason ('passed down by Choctaw elders to Tim Tingle who is Choctaw' OR 'a story from the people themselves')
Hints
  1. Who told the story?
  2. Where did Tim Tingle learn it?
Misconceptions to watch
  • Children may say NO because 'it's a book, not a real fact' - rebuild the chain: elder -> elder -> Tim Tingle -> book.
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