About This Lesson
ESSENTIAL QUESTION: HOW ARE ‘SETTLER-COLONIALISM’ AND ‘GENOCIDAL TENDENCIES’ FOUNDATIONAL TO THE EXISTENCE OF THE UNITED STATES?
OBJECTIVES:
SWBAT analyze, evaluate, source and annotate excerpted primary and secondary sources (complex text, video, images) toward skill building for the AP U.S. History exam.
CITATIONS:
BOOK: Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne (2014) An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. MASSACHUSETTS: Beacon Press (Pgs. 1-14 and 218-236)
IMAGES:
Book: https://www.allbookstores.com/Indigenous-Peoples-History-United-States/9780807057834
Traditional Dress: https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-norman-lago-dine-aka-navajo-dressed-in-dolorful-news-traditional-139280751/html?
Navajo Nation Map: https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/2017/01/18/another-settlement-navajo-nation-abandoned-mines-cleanup/96746226/
Entering Navajo Reservation: https://www.gcdamp.com/index.php?title=file:120831-AMWG-Trip-007.JPG
Great Seal of the Navajo Nation:
https://americanindiancoc.org/tribal-history/navajo-nation/
Kennewick Man:
https://phys.org/news/2016-05-kennewick-reburied-quandaries-human-wont.html
DAILY ACTIVATOR:
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World – Independent Lens/PBS
https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/rumble (1:24:30 mins)
HOMEWORK:
Imperial Rivalries Essay –
https://ap.gilderlehrman.org/essay/imperial-rivalries?period=1
Indian Slavery in the Americas Essay –
https://ap.gilderlehrman.org/essay/indian-slavery-americas?period=1
STANDARDS:
AP US History (2021)
https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-united-states-history
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