Grade 2 Fall History - The Native Peoples of Our Region: Living Nations, Land, and Knowledge
History · CUL
G2 (NK360 EU-1; NK360 EU-2; D2.Eco.1.K-2; D2.Eco.3.K-2; TEKS 2.7.A, 2.11.A)
hist.g2.f.cul.seasonal_round
Explain the seasonal round economy and how Indigenous food, work, and ceremony followed the 13 moons
Describe the SEASONAL ROUND as the Indigenous economic and cultural cycle - what is planted, gathered, hunted, fished, celebrated in each moon (month). Use the 13 moons (Bruchac/London/Locker 1992) as the framework. Identify one nation's seasonal-round practice in detail (e.g., Hidatsa corn planting via Buffalo Bird Girl).
Mastery threshold
80%
Min instances
6
Typical minutes
40
Spaced intervals (days)
1, 3, 7, 14, 30
Prereqs
Common misconceptions
- Believing the seasonal round is primitive (it is sophisticated agriculture, fishery management, and ecology refined over thousands of years)
- Believing Indigenous peoples didn't farm (many nations had advanced agriculture - corn, beans, squash, sunflowers, sweet potatoes)
- Believing food gathering means hunger (well-managed seasonal rounds were abundant)