Native Americans

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 2

Native Americans 

This is what we'll be discussing; 

- Introduction to Native Americans.

- Different tribes and where they're located.

- The interesting history of Sioux Indians.

- Where are the Natives now?

- What have you learnt? 

 

Introduction

Short introduction

Which tribes
do you know?

Tribes

Cherokee

The Cherokee are among the Native peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands. Before the 18th century, they focused in southwestern North Carolina. They’re also in southeastern Tennessee, as well as the tips of western South Carolina and northeastern Georgia.

Navajo

The Navajo are Native American people of the Southwestern United States. The Navajo divided between two federally recognized tribes. The titles are Navajo Nation and the Colorado River Indian Tribes.

Sioux

The Sioux, also Called Ochethi Sakowin, Native American tribes and First Nations peoples in North America. The expression refers to some cultural group inside the Great Sioux. The Sioux include three key branches based on language , the Dakota, Lakota and Nakota.

Chippewa

The Ojibwe, Ojibwa, Chippewa, or Saulteaux are still an Anishinaabeg group of Native Peoples in North America. They Reside in Canada and the United States and are among the biggest Indigenous Cultural groups north of the Rio Grande.

Choctaw

The Choctaw are Native American individuals originally inhabiting what’s now the South-eastern United States. Their Choctaw language belongs to the Muskogean language family group. Hopewell and Mississippian cultures, that dwelt across the east of the Mississippi River valley and its tributaries. About 1,700 years back, the Hopewell people built Nanih Waiya. A fantastic earthwork mound situated in what is fundamental present-day Mississippi. It considered sacred by the Choctaw.

History of Sioux Indians

Sitting Bull

Red Cloud

Where are the Natives now? 

Nowadays still about 2 million Natives live across the US. 

Half of the people is still part of a tribe even if they have moved away from the reservations. About 25% of the Natives still live within one of 276 tribes. 

Interesting facts

1907 - Charles Curtis becomes the 1st Native American senator

1912 - Jim Thorpe wins two golden medals at the Olympics 

1924 - Congress passes the Indian Citizenship Act

1929 - Charles Curtis serves as the first Native American Vice President 

1968 - The Indian Civil Rights Act is signed into law, granting Native American tribes many of the benefits included in the Bill of Rights.

2021 - Representative Deb Haaland is confirmed as secretary of the Interior, making her the first Native American to lead a cabinet agency. 

Let's check what we have learnt

1. What are terms used to refer to the people who first lived in America before the Europeans arrived?

1. American Indians
2. Indigenous peoples
3. Native Americans
4. All mentioned

2. Why were Native Americans called Indians?

1. The first explorers in Americas were from India
2. They first came from the land of India
3. Columbus thought he sailed to India, so called the people Indian
4. the name Indian is similar to how they refer to themselves

3. Before the Europeans arrived, Native Americans only lived in the western half of the United States.

TRUE

FALSE

1830

1838

1851

1868

1890

Trail 

of 

Tears 

Treaty of Fort Laramie

Indian Removal Act

Wounded Knee

Indian Appropriation Act

5. How do archeologists know about the history and culture of Native Americans?

6. What are the lands that the United States government set aside for Native Americans called?

1. Plains
2. Colonies
3. Reservations
4. Boroughs

7. The Native American tribes were in constant warfare prior to the arrival of the Europeans.

TRUE

FALSE

Thank you 

For joining us, listening and participating.