Inquiry box by Rebecca Osthus https://padlet.com/rmosthus/inquiryboxNA Native Americans en-us 2020-03-09 21:20:04 UTC 2026-01-09 05:03:27 UTC hello@padlet.com http://www.ryss.org/cms/lib2/TX02000078/Centricity/Domain/337/social-studies.gif Children's Book tgabbie https://padlet.com/rmosthus/inquiryboxNA/wish/460173543 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSBrkJn3NeI 

  1. How does this book help the reader see how indigenous persons/communities are forced to give up their culture?
  2. Why do you think the nun treated Margaret so badly?
  3. We have learned about the different ways the U.S. government has stolen from Native Americans. What things were taken from Margaret in this book? (think deeper than just material things)
]]> 2020-03-13 17:11:40 UTC https://padlet.com/rmosthus/inquiryboxNA/wish/460173543 1. U.S. President Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress "On Indian Removal," December 6, 1830 ahryner https://padlet.com/rmosthus/inquiryboxNA/wish/465696977
  • https://iowaculture.gov/sites/default/files/primary-sources/pdfs/history-education-pss-removal-jackson-source.pdf
  • https://iowaculture.gov/sites/default/files/history-education-pss-removal-jackson-transcription.b.pdf

    • Why did President Jackson view Indian removal as a benefit to the nation?
    • How does Jackson view the migration of the Indians’ to European migration?
    • How does President Jackson compare the life of Native American’s to whites?

    ]]>     2020-03-19 02:55:33 UTC https://padlet.com/rmosthus/inquiryboxNA/wish/465696977     2. Transcribed Excerpts from U.S. Supreme Court Majority Opinion on Cherokee Nation's Case Against Georgia, January 1831 ahryner https://padlet.com/rmosthus/inquiryboxNA/wish/465698373
  • https://iowaculture.gov/sites/default/files/primary-sources/pdfs/history-education-pss-removal-marshall-source.pdf
  • https://iowaculture.gov/sites/default/files/history-education-pss-removal-marshall-transcription-excerpts.pdf

    • What entity did the Supreme Court view the Cherokee Nation and is it different from the entity that the Cherokee Nation viewed themselves?
    • What pattern can be predicted from the United States government about removing Indians from their homeland?
    • How does the Supreme Court justify their reasoning to disregard the Cherokee Nation’s attempts to keep their land?

    ]]>     2020-03-19 02:59:08 UTC https://padlet.com/rmosthus/inquiryboxNA/wish/465698373     3. Transcribed Excerpts from "Orders No. 25" Report from Gen. Winfield Scott on Removal of the Cherokee from Georgia, May 17, 1838 ahryner https://padlet.com/rmosthus/inquiryboxNA/wish/465700381
  • https://iowaculture.gov/sites/default/files/primary-sources/images/history-education-pss-removal-order-source.jpg
  • https://iowaculture.gov/sites/default/files/history-education-pss-removal-order-transcription-excerpts.pdf

    • How did General Scott predict the Cherokee to act based on the prescribed and heavily encouraged treatment outlined to the Army?
    • Why would the Cherokee resist being forced to move from their land?
    • What were the Cherokee treatment protocols that were outlined for the soldiers?

    ]]>     2020-03-19 03:03:27 UTC https://padlet.com/rmosthus/inquiryboxNA/wish/465700381     4. Marion County Resolution in Response to Indian Removal Act, February 5, 1852 ahryner https://padlet.com/rmosthus/inquiryboxNA/wish/465701786
  • https://iowaculture.gov/sites/default/files/primary-sources/pdfs/history-education-pss-removal-marion-source.pdf
  • https://iowaculture.gov/sites/default/files/history-education-pss-removal-resolution-transcription.b.pdf

    • How did Marion County Iowans respond to the removal of Indians?
    • What would be the reasoning for Iowans’ to write this response? 
    • How does Marion County’s response differ from President Jackson’s letter?

    ]]>     2020-03-19 03:06:58 UTC https://padlet.com/rmosthus/inquiryboxNA/wish/465701786     5. Iowa Official Register rmosthus https://padlet.com/rmosthus/inquiryboxNA/wish/473655707 -What did the treaty of 1804 do to the Indians living in Illinios?
    -What is the Indian group still in Iowa?
    -What does this document do to help show how the Indians in Iowa have decreased? Why is it important to look into this document?]]>     2020-03-24 22:23:33 UTC https://padlet.com/rmosthus/inquiryboxNA/wish/473655707     6. Iowa History Journal: Tracing the Treaties rmosthus https://padlet.com/rmosthus/inquiryboxNA/wish/473659053 -What does this 19th century map show us about how treaties impacted Indians and Iowa?
    -What was the motive that drove the creation of these treaties?
    -What were the terms of the treaties? How much money was exchanged? What were the boundaries? How did they shape Iowa?]]>     2020-03-24 22:27:37 UTC https://padlet.com/rmosthus/inquiryboxNA/wish/473659053     7. Native Americans in Iowa: 1800-1860 rmosthus https://padlet.com/rmosthus/inquiryboxNA/wish/473661737 *Explore this web page. More specifically, click on the tab labeled: "Native Americans in Iowa 1800-1860"
    -What does this document show us about the Louisiana Purchase of 1804?
    -What does the following quote teach us about how Native Americans were treated after the creation of the treaties? "As a result new policies were created to remove and relocate Native Americans in an orderly fashion"
    -What does the map show us about what Native American tribes occupied Iowa before they were forced out?]]>     2020-03-24 22:31:04 UTC https://padlet.com/rmosthus/inquiryboxNA/wish/473661737     8. Iowa Law to "Allow Meskwaki to Purchase Land and Live in Tama, Iowa," July 15, 1856 rmosthus https://padlet.com/rmosthus/inquiryboxNA/wish/473668526 -In 1830, the federal government passed a law requiring all American Indians to be removed to areas west of Missouri and Arkansas. What does this law allow the Meskwaki to do? 
    -Who is giving the Meskwaki permission to stay in Iowa? 
    -Why is that significant?]]>     2020-03-24 22:39:50 UTC https://padlet.com/rmosthus/inquiryboxNA/wish/473668526     9. Tribal Newspaper Article about Cherokee Nation and White Settlers in Georgia, March 4, 1829 rmosthus https://padlet.com/rmosthus/inquiryboxNA/wish/473673722 -What do the Cherokee, who authored this article, believe about the land on which they are being forced to live?
    -How do the Cherokee view their white neighbors? What evidence from the article can you provide to support your conclusion?
    -What authority do the authors claim for the truth of their words in this article?
    -How did the experience of the Meskwaki (Sac and Fox) in Iowa compare to the experience of the Cherokee in Georgia?
    ]]>     2020-03-24 22:46:48 UTC https://padlet.com/rmosthus/inquiryboxNA/wish/473673722     10. A New Map of Iowa, 1845 tgabbie https://padlet.com/rmosthus/inquiryboxNA/wish/475282138 - How does this map of Iowa compare to a map today?
    - Which way is the government expanding their control of Native American land?
    - How does this show what we know about western expansion. ]]>     2020-03-25 19:26:26 UTC https://padlet.com/rmosthus/inquiryboxNA/wish/475282138     11. Twenty First Congress Enactments, 1830 tgabbie https://padlet.com/rmosthus/inquiryboxNA/wish/475287882 - Based on this document, how does the government interact with Native Americans in regard to land? 
    - What does the document say that the president will do for tribes who have exchanged land or been removed? Does that seem fair?
    - In section 2, it says "lands should revert to the United States, if the Indians become extinct". What does this say about how these people were treating Native Americans?]]>     2020-03-25 19:30:00 UTC https://padlet.com/rmosthus/inquiryboxNA/wish/475287882     12. Flyer Selling Indian Land, 1911 tgabbie https://padlet.com/rmosthus/inquiryboxNA/wish/475292073  - Based on what you have learned, how do you think the government got this land?
    - Who do you think was able to buy this land?
    - What do you think happened to the Native Americans who lived there previously?]]>     2020-03-25 19:32:44 UTC https://padlet.com/rmosthus/inquiryboxNA/wish/475292073