Fifth Grade
Unit 1 | Actvities
Activity 1: Removal Policy
- Samuel's Story BHH has been unable to authenticate this account, so it should be treated as fictional memoir. On at least one website, the author has claimed a 1995 publication date for the story. As a first person child's perspective on the removal experience, it is powerful to engage elementary children in an empathic response to the terrible suffering in the Cherokee removal.
- Description of Removal Policy for reading aloud (external site)
- Indian Removal Policy 1814 - 1858. Teachers Background Guide. (external site)
- Cherokee Removal Orders. For teachers to excerpt and read aloud (external site)
Activity 2: Indian Appropriations Act
Activity 3: Native American Culture
- Native American Culture(external site)
- Tribes-by-States Map Index
- Reservation Maps, National NAGPRA: The Native American Gramces Protection and Repatriation Act
- Reservation Maps, U.S. Federal and State Indian Reservations
- Indian Reservations, U.S. Census Bureau American Indians Reservations Map
Activity 4: Reservation Memories
Hampton Students Reservation Memories Follow this link to oral histories shared by Native students of the Hampton Institute.
Activity 5: Dawes Act
- Dawes Act of 1887 Unabridged Version
- Dawes Act of 1887 Revised Version
- Problems Inherent in the Dawes Act
- Dawes Act - Summation
Activity 6: Carlisle School
Activity 7: Indian Reorganization
- Indian Reorganization Act
- Autobiographical Descriptions of Native life in the early 20th Century (external site)
Activity 8: Tribes Today
- American Indian Movement (site reproduction)
- Table 1. Top 25 American Indian Tribes for the United States: 1990 and 1980
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census
Release Date: August 1995 - Table 3. American Indian Languages Spoken at Home by American Indian Persons 5 Years and Over in Households: 1990
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census
Release date: August 1995
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