This is an activity to help students understand assimilation attempts. The students watch a video clip, discuss assimilation, and create a poster advocating for or against the assimilation of American Indians during the time period of Westward Expansion.
At Home With Ursula Le Guin; Her novels featured dragons and wizards, but they were also deeply grounded in indigenous American ways of thought.
This Learning Resource is designed for use with preservice and inservice teachers
In 1900, the federal census recorded just over 200,000 American Indian people living in the United States. Most lived on reservations—parcels of land that Indian people had retained in treaty negotiations—over which the federal government claimed jurisdiction. By 1900, the policy of the federal government was that American Indian people needed to assimilate into white society, giving up their traditional ways to become like Euro-Americans in their living arrangements, dress, pastimes, religious expression, and work.
The World According to the 1580s; A newly digitized map offers a rare glimpse at the way Europeans conceived of the Americas before British colonization.