hist.g4.s.cul.indigenous_nations_continental
Profile continental Indigenous nations with present-tense protocol, focusing on the 5 Tribes of Indian Removal and additional named nations across regions
Profile Indigenous nations of the continental US with present-tense sovereignty-respected protocol. PRIMARY focus on the 5 Tribes of the Indian Removal Act era (Cherokee Nation; Choctaw Nation; Muscogee Creek Nation; Seminole Tribe of Florida + Seminole Nation of Oklahoma; Chickasaw Nation) plus additional nations across regions (Lakota/Dakota; Diné/Navajo Nation; Hopi; Pueblo nations; Apache; Comanche; Kiowa; Nez Perce; Ute; Shoshone; Mandan/Hidatsa/Arikara; plus continued attention to the child's own state's Indigenous nations from G4-Fall). Each nation studied with PRESENT-DAY headquartered-location, current tribal-government, language, cultural office; THEN with the historical event affecting them. Vocabulary: sovereign nation, tribal government, cultural office, language revitalization, continuity, time immemorial.
- Profile 2-3 specific Indigenous nations of the state with present-tense protocol and cultural-office attribution
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hist.g3.s.cul.world_cultures_present_tense
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- Analyze the Indian Removal Act (1830) and Trail of Tears as FORCED REMOVAL (NOT 'expansion'), Resilience-FIRST, with primary sources from displaced nations
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hist.g4.s.his.lewis_clark_four_perspectives
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- Capstone — Westward Expansion Truth-and-Resilience Storybook (32-page bound, 3-copy Foxfire distribution)
- Speaking of Indigenous nations in past-tense ('the Cherokee WERE') instead of present-tense ('the Cherokee Nation IS')
- Treating the 5 Tribes as a single homogeneous category instead of 5 distinct sovereign nations
- Forgetting the Seminoles who resisted and remained in Florida (the Seminole Tribe of Florida)
- Conflating 'tribe' with 'culture' — a tribal nation is a sovereign political entity, not just a cultural group