Profile pre-1600 Indigenous nations of the 13-Colonies region and surrounding North America with present-tense protocol — Wampanoag, Powhatan Confederacy, Lenape, Haudenosaunee/Iroquois Six Nations, Cherokee, Pequot, Narragansett, Mohegan, Susquehannock, Catawba; sample nations from the Great Plains (Lakota, Mandan), Pacific Northwest (Chinook), Desert Southwest (Pueblo, Diné), and California (Chumash)
Exercise
Difficulty 2
~3 min
hist.g5.f.ex_14
Taino Sovereignty Today
Prompt
Are Taíno people gone? Apply the Sovereignty Promise in 2 sentences.
How it's presented
mode
writing
prompt audio ID
audio.g5f.ex 14.stem
Answer criteria
type
open ended
rubric
Required: 'No' + Taíno cultural revitalization today (United Confederation of Taíno People) + ~15-20% of Puerto Ricans have Taíno mitochondrial DNA
Hints
- Sovereignty Promise applies to Taíno too
- Lesson 6 covered present-day Taíno cultural revitalization
Misconceptions to watch
- Believing Taíno are 'gone'
- Past tense
Used in lessons