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Curriculum Unit

Evan Kobosko

Identity Crisis: Are Indians, American?

Title Author

KEY LEARNING, ENDURING UNDERSTANDING, ETC.

  • • One’s identity is determined by a variety of factors including: culture, ethnicity, skills and abilities, physical traits and attributes, genders occupation, beliefs and hobbies.
  • • American identity is fluid; after all our nation is known as ‘The Melting Pot’ because of its fusion of nationalities, ethnicities, and cultures.
  • • Native Americans were often forced to conform to an ‘American Identity’.

    • ESSENTIAL QUESTION(S) for the UNIT

  • • What does it mean to be an American? How does your definition relate to others in the classroom? Others in the country?
  • • Have Indians been open to assimilate and become ‘American’? Were they forced to become ‘American’?
  • • What are examples of how Indians fit into your definition of an American throughout the nine Historical Periods we studied? How do they not fit?

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    • CONCEPT A CONCEPT B CONCEPT C

    Assimilation

    American Identity

    American Indians

    ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS A ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS B ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS C

  • • Are Indians, American?
  • • How are Native Americans represented in mainstream society?
  • • Are issues facing the Native American population being addressed by the government?
  • • What does it mean to be an American?
  • • When was America founded? In 1776? In 1492? Or sometime before?
  • • What is assimilation?
  • • How has the process of assimilation impacted indigenous peoples?

    • VOCABULARY A VOCABULARY B VOCABULARY C

  • • Citizenship
  • • Scapegoat
  • • Social Justice

  • • Assimilation
  • • Dawes Severalty Act
  • • Indian Residential Schools
  • • Reservation
  • • Identity
  • • American Identity
  • • Nation
  • • Tribe

    • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION/MATERIAL/TEXT/FILM/RESOURCES

    PBS Documentaries – In the White Man’s Image/ Trail of Tears: We Shall Remain -- America through Native Eyes