second grade unit three: respectful teaching about the creek and cherokee sarah blascovich brown...
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Second Grade Unit Three:Respectful Teaching About
the Creek and Cherokee
Sarah Blascovich BrownTeacher on Assignment
Establishing Our Prior Knowledge
• What do we know about Georgia’s first people?
• Describe their culture as it was when Oglethorpe & other English settlers arrived in Georgia.
• How do Native Americans maintain their culture & heritage today?
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Creek Community Life• Confederation – “tribal towns”
were individual units within it• Covered entirety of
Southeastern US at time of contact
• Removed in 1830s via “treaty” to lands in present-day Oklahoma
• Today’s membership – 60,000
Where the Creek lived in Georgia
• You see that manydifferent treaties and cessions tookthe land of the Creek over time.
• The very first cession, right alongthe Savannah Riverwas to whom?
Cherokee Community Life• Division of
labor betweenmen & women
• Active trading culture
• Settled, farming communities
• Removed to Oklahoma in 1838 – the Trail of Tears
Cherokee Courthouse - Oklahoma
New Echota
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Whose name is this?• Sequoyah was born in Tennessee,
and lived throughout the Southeast
• He visited fellow Cherokees in Georgia (where the Cherokee capital of New Echota was located)
• He was a fervent believer in preserving Cherokee culture and traditions
• He worked to establish a system of writing known as a syllabary
{New Georgia Encyclopedia}
Resources:Resources:• The New Georgia Encyclopedia (Creek):
http://www.newgeorgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-579&hl=y
• The New Georgia Encyclopedia (Cherokee removal):http://www.newgeorgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2722&hl=y
• The New Georgia Encyclopedia (Sequoyah):http://www.newgeorgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-618&sug=y
• The Cherokee Nation (Oklahoma):http://www.cherokee.org
• The Creek (Muscogee) Nation:http://www.themuscogeecreeknation.com
Resources:Resources:• Oyate (Books, Reviews, Other Publications):
http://www.oyate.org
• American Indians in Children’s Literature:http://www.americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com
• National Museum of the American Indian:http://www.nmai.si.edu/
• Ocmulgee National Monument (Macon):http://www.nps.gov/ocmu/
• New Echota State Historic Site (Calhoun):http://www.gastateparks.org/info/echota/
Resources:Resources:• Oyate (Do and Do nots):
http://www.oyate.org/catalog/poster_to_do_not.html
• Ten Cultural Respect Guidelines:http://www.native-languages.org/ymca.htm
• Cherokee Heritage Center (click on Learn):http://www.cherokeeheritage.org/
• Georgia Tribe of Eastern Cherokee (state-recognized):http://georgiatribeofeasterncherokee.com/
• Perdido Bay Tribe/Lower Muscogee Creeks:http://www.perdidobaytribe.org/Classroom%20Creek%20History.html
Cherokee Resources:Cherokee Resources:The Cherokee Little People, First Fire, The Ice Man, all written by Marijo Moore. These stories are appropriate for retelling to children, and are traditional Cherokee works.
The Cherokee Little People, First Fire, The Ice Man, all written by Marijo Moore. These stories are appropriate for retelling to children, and are traditional Cherokee works.
Itse Selu: Cherokee Harvest Festival, by Daniel Pennington (member of the Cherokee nation), tells not only about the festival, but also about traditional Cherokee life before contact with Europeans.
Itse Selu: Cherokee Harvest Festival, by Daniel Pennington (member of the Cherokee nation), tells not only about the festival, but also about traditional Cherokee life before contact with Europeans.
The Trail of Tears, by Joseph Bruchac (member of the Abenaki nation), discusses the removal of the Cherokee in an historically accurate and respectful way.
The Trail of Tears, by Joseph Bruchac (member of the Abenaki nation), discusses the removal of the Cherokee in an historically accurate and respectful way.
Creek Resources:Creek Resources:
The Good Luck Cat, written by Joy Harjo, who is a member of the Muscogee Nation, is full of wonderful inspiring poetry.
The Good Luck Cat, written by Joy Harjo, who is a member of the Muscogee Nation, is full of wonderful inspiring poetry.
The Great Ball Game, another by Joseph Bruchac, is a traditional Muscogee story.
The Great Ball Game, another by Joseph Bruchac, is a traditional Muscogee story.
Jingle Dancer, by Cynthia Leitich Smith, discusses one girl’s desire to dance in a modern Muscogee celebration. Her website includes teacher resources for this book: http://www.cynthialeitichsmith.com/CLS/cyn_books/_teachers_guide.html
Jingle Dancer, by Cynthia Leitich Smith, discusses one girl’s desire to dance in a modern Muscogee celebration. Her website includes teacher resources for this book: http://www.cynthialeitichsmith.com/CLS/cyn_books/_teachers_guide.html
Teaching Unit Three:Individuals, Groups, & Institutions:
Contributions of Sequoyah to Cherokee cultureShow that Creek & Cherokee had institutions (cultural, governmental, etc., even before
Europeans came to Georgia)
LocationReview ways that geography impacts lifestyleDiscuss differences in Creek & Cherokee lifestyles based on geography of their
particular areas (general ideas)Production, Distribution, and Consumption
Ways that Creek & Cherokee obtained things they could not make or find locallyBarter/trade vs. currency
Teaching Unit Three:Scarcity
Identify resources that were scarce to the Creek and CherokeeDiscuss how scarcity of land affected both groups of people, as well
as the European influence on this idea
Time, Change, and ContinuityCompare ways that European/American cultures have changed
over time to ways that the Creek and Cherokee cultures have changed over time
Compare students’ lives to Sequoyah’s