Analyze colonial-Indigenous relations across the 17th and 18th centuries — alliances, treaties, dispossession, and three major conflicts: the Pequot War (1636-37), King Philip's War (1675-78), and the Powhatan Wars (1610-1646)
Exercise Difficulty 4 ~7 min hist.g5.f.ex_15

Treaty 1621 Close Reading

MG-7 Interactive Physical / non-image

Federal Founding-Era Archive Card (FOUR-PAGE form used by every child for every primary-source document analyzed in the unit). PAGE 1 SOURCING: Title of source / Author or creator / Year created / Where created / Purpose (why was this made? for whom?) / Genre (TREATY / LAW / PAMPHLET / PROCLAMATION / POEM / NARRATIVE / ENGRAVING / NEWSPAPER / SERMON / MAP / LETTER / JOURNAL — circle one). PAGE 2 CONTEXTUALIZATION: What was happening in the Atlantic World when this was made? Who held power? Who was excluded? What other events took place near this date? PAGE 3 CORROBORATION: Find at least ONE other source about the same event or person. Do the two sources agree? Disagree? On what specifically? PAGE 4 CLOSE READING: Quote one important sentence from the source. What does it actually say? PLUS NMAI FIFTH MOVE: Whose voices are present in this source? Whose are absent? What land are we standing on as we read this? Style: high-contrast form-style layout; large-print version available; sentence-frame version available; audio-narration version available.

Prompt

Read the 1621 Wampanoag-Plymouth treaty primary source. Apply MG-7 full 4-question routine. Identify whether the relationship was sovereign-to-sovereign OR a 'helping' relationship.

How it's presented
mode structured form prompt audio ID audio.g5f.ex 15.stem
Answer criteria
type MG7 full
rubric
Must identify the relationship as sovereign-to-sovereign (NOT 'helping')
required sections
sourcingcontextualizationcorroborationclose_reading
Hints
  1. Plimoth Patuxet Museum Wampanoag Homesite is co-curated with Wampanoag historians
  2. Apply MG-7 page 4 close reading to the 6 articles of the treaty
Misconceptions to watch
  • Believing the relationship was a 'helping' rather than sovereign-to-sovereign
  • Missing William Bradford as corroborating English source
Used in lessons