(Name-mce) ListServ AICP Lessons In Sovereignty (2006)

Sat Aug 12 14:06:13 EDT 2006

Lessons In Tribal Sovereignty
http://sorrel.humboldt.edu/~go1/kellogg/intro.html

Welcome to American Indian Issues: An Introductory and Curricular Guide
for Educators. The contents were made possible by the American Indian
Civics Project (AICP), a project initially funded by the W.K. Kellogg
Foundation's Native American Higher Education Initiative.  The Project
operated from the 1997-98 through the 2000-01 academic years.   The
primary goal of the AICP was to provide educators with the tools to
educate secondary students - Indian and non-native alike - about the
historical and contemporary political, economic, and social
characteristics of sovereign tribal nations throughout the United
States.  The technological expertise, design, and ongoing maintenance of
this web site was made possible by the Center for Indian Community
Development (CICD) at Humboldt State University (HSU) - a four-year
institution in the California State University (CSU) system located in
Northern California.

Goals: The primary goals of this web site are threefold:

1. To create an on-going educational collaboration between the
university community and the secondary education communities - a
collaboration that engages both communities in an academic dialogue
about materials and lesson plans related to American Indians.

2. To create a series of educational resources which secondary educators
and students may use when studying the historical and contemporary
relationship between the US government and American Indians.

3. To collaboratively design and create secondary lesson plans related
to the above historical and contemporary relationship - lesson plans
which can be integrated into existing social science courses and which
are compatible with requirements in the California History-Social
Studies Standards.

Contents:  The web site consists of the following sections:

1. Historical Overview.  This narrative discusses the relationship
between the many Indian nations on the North American continent, first
with the British colonial governments and later, with the United States
government.  This section is specifically designed to supplement the
lesson plans in this web site and, as such, will be helpful to teachers
as well as students who wish to learn more about the topic.

2. Chronology.  This chronology provides an annotated listing of the
major federal laws and activities, US Supreme Court decision, key
treaties, and military battles between American Indians and the evolving
American government from 1787 to the present.  Additionally, it includes
major Indian efforts to retain their ancestral land, as well as maintain
and regain tribal sovereignty.

3.Annotated Resources. This section includes two types of annotated
resources: 

Videos/Movie Resources Bibliographical Resources

Each of these resources were personally reviewed and annotated by at
least one person who helped with the development of the web site.
Additionally, they are reviewed and updated by web site authors several
times a year. The primary criterion for determining whether to include a
resource is whether it is applicable, appropriate, and accessible for
use by secondary and post-secondary educators and students.  Because
extensive hot links to useful Internet resources are included in every
section of this web site, we have not included a specific resource
section for Internet sites.

4. Unit Lesson Plans.  This section contains two comprehensive and
standards-based lesson plans collaboratively designed by secondary and
post-secondary educators in Humboldt County.

Sovereignty or Dependency?  American Indian Nations and their
Relationship with the Federal Government, 1776 - 1900 is designed for
8th graders in conjunction with - but not limited to - California's
Eighth Grade History-Social Science Standards. This 10-day lesson plan
was tested in Spring 1999 in the eighth grade class of Anne Hartline, a
teacher at McKinleyville Middle School.  Based upon the strengths and
weaknesses as identified by the participating educators and students,
this lesson plan was revised as it currently appears on-line.

"Red Power" -  The Civil Rights Movement and the American Indian is
designed for 11th graders in conjunction with - but not limited to -
California's Eleventh Grade History-Social Science Standards. The first
week of this two-week lesson plan was tested in the eleventh grade class
of Jack Bareilles at Arcata High School and taught by his student
teacher, Sophie Huntington.  Based upon participating educator and
student input, this lesson plan was revised as it currently appears
on-line.

While each lesson was designed to be incorporated into a history course,
each is interdisciplinary through the inclusion of language arts,
geographical, political, and economic components.  The core of the
lesson plans is a broad-based lecture/discussion which relies heavily
upon overheads, maps, illustrations, and primary documentation.  Both
include ideas for small group and class discussion topics; various
short-term and long-term reading and geography assignments; related
vocabulary words, terms, and phrases; a series of Internet assignments;
and a suggested final assessment tool.

5. Mini-Lessons.  This section includes five mini-lessons on special
topics that have historical and contemporary significance within Indian
Country.  Each lesson is presented in two formats - in a narrative form
for student reading either online or in hard copy; and a teacher's guide
that provides teachers with a teachable theme, discussion questions, an
evaluation tool, and a listing of all the 8th, 11th, and 12th grade
standards addressed in the lesson.  By clicking on the topics below, you
will access the narrative form for each paper.

Indian Mascots, Symbols, and Names in Sports: A Brief History of the
Controversy and the Struggle for Change. This study examines the
controversy surrounding the use of Indian mascots in American sports,
focusing especially on the origins of the controversy which run deep
throughout the American past, present, and future.

Indian Boarding Schools: Tools of Forced Assimilation, 1870-1934.  This
study examines the goals, activities, and consequences of the Indian
boarding schools that were created in the late nineteenth century and
persisted throughout much of the twentieth.

Indians in Northern California: A Case Study of Federal, State, and
Vigilante Intervention, 1850-1860.  This study examines the federal,
state, and civilian interventions into the lives of Indian Peoples of
Northern California between 1850-1860, as well as the genocidal
consequences of such actions.

American Indian Tribal Gaming: A Brief History of its Evolution and the
Political Debate.  This paper examines the recent popularity of tribal
gaming by focusing on the political debate between tribal governments,
state governments, and the federal government.  A case study of gaming
in California provides an excellent analysis of the political issues
surrounding tribal gaming in the 21st Century.

American Indians in the 21st Century:  Survivors within a Genocidal
Context.  This paper examines the contemporary status of American
Indians in the United States by focusing on the theme that despite 400
years of genocidal policies, Indian People at the turn of the 21st
Century had survived and retained many of their cultural, spiritual,
economic, and political traditions.

Web Site Authorship and Maintenance. Researching, writing, and
maintaining the web page was the responsibility of Dr. Gayle
Olson-Raymer, adjunct professor in HSU's Department of History,  who may
be reached by e-mail at go1 at humboldt.edu.   Although the site is no
longer maintained on a regular basis, Dr. Olson-Raymer may be contacted
about any portion of the web site.  Please note that before any
background information, lesson plans, or mini-lessons were included in
the web site, they were reviewed by academic experts within the American
Indian community, as well as by CICD staff at HSU.  Instrumental
contributors to the web site included:

Anne Hartline, eighth grade teacher at McKinleyville Middle School, who
critiqued, revised, and actually used the 8th grade lesson plan -
Sovereignty or Dependency?   American Indian Nations and their
Relationship with the Federal Government, 1776 - 1900 -in Spring, 1999.
Additionally, Ms. Hartline designed many assignment materials and the
final assessment for the lesson plan.  Sophie Huntington, a 1999
graduate of HSU with a B.A. in History, a recipient of the secondary
teaching credential in social science from HSU's Department of Education
in 2000, and a teacher at McKinleyville High School.   Ms. Huntington
and Dr. Olson-Raymer  designed the eleventh grade lesson plan - "Red
Power" -  The Civil Rights Movement and the American Indian - and Ms.
Huntington taught the first week of the lesson at Arcata High School in
Spring 2000.  David Riesenfeld, a 2000 graduate from HSU with a B.A. in
history, recipient of secondary teaching credential in social science
from HSU's Department of Education in 2001, and recipient of a Master's
Degree in Education from HSU in 2003.   Mr. Riesenfeld - who researched
and wrote the Special Issue paper on Indian Macots and Stereotypes,
currently teaches high school in New York.

To download the documents in our web site, you have two choices:

If you wish to duplicate a small file, you can simply click on print.
For a complete copy of a larger document - such as the lesson plans -
or any of the appendices to the lesson plans, you will need to visit the
PDF Archives:
http://sorrel.humboldt.edu/~go1/kellogg/PDFarchive.html

What is In The PDF Archives

19thCenturyPolicies.pdf
CherokeeTrail2.pdf
ManifestDestiny.pdf
AmericanIndianSovereignty.pdf
Chronology.pdf
MarshallTrilogy.pdf
AmericanWest.pdf
ContrastingThoughts.pdf
NAContinent.pdf
AmericaToday.pdf
CulturalAreas.pdf
PartOneLessonPlan.pdf
AndrewJackson.pdf
DelawareDislocation.pdf
PartTwoLessonPlan.pdf
AppendixB.pdf
EmailDirections.pdf
PartThreeLessonPlan.pdf
BeringStraight.pdf
ErodingSovereignty.pdf
PartFourLessonPlan.pdf
CaliforniaIndianAgents.pdf
HistoricalOverview.pdf
Savage.pdf
CaliforniansReact.pdf
IndianKilling.pdf
StudentProjects.pdf
CaliforniaReservation.pdf
IndianNations.pdf
TribalRelocation.pdf
CherokeeHome.pdf
LandCessions.pdf
ValueSystems.pdf
CherokeeSymbols.pdf
LandForSale.pdf
CherokeeTrail1.pdf
LessonPlan8thIntro.pdf

Appendix A includes all the maps used in the lesson plan.
Appendix B includes all the overheads used in the lesson plan.
Appendix C alphabetically lists all the vocabulary that was used in the
lesson plan. 
Appendix D includes all the assignments used in the lesson plan.

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