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Boarding Schools and Forced Assimilation – Part 4 Resources

The Boarding Schools and Forced Assimilation digital resources include animated videos with maps and timelines showing the history of boarding schools using child-appropriate facts and enrichment resources. The goal of Amerind is to get students excited about learning and to help create lifelong learners. These resources provide high interest opportunities for students to safely explore…
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Boarding Schools and Forced Assimilation – Part 3 STEAM

The Boarding Schools and Forced Assimilation STEAM resources for this lesson contain hands-on engineering and design activities, create your own code activity, and map and timeline activities. There are additional resources to reteach and enrich the learning for all types of learners. Special Thanks to Our Contributors Amerind would like to thank Dr. Laura Tohe…
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Boarding Schools and Forced Assimilation – Part 2 ELA

The Boarding Schools and Forced Assimilation (ELA) portion contains nonfiction reading passages with comprehension questions and a truth and healing curriculum from the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition. This lesson addresses compare and contrast, chronological, and cause and effect text structure standards with supporting graphic organizers. Students will investigate essential vocabulary using context…
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Boarding Schools and Forced Assimilation – Part 1 History

The Boarding Schools and Forced Assimilation lesson (H1.2) investigates how some boarding schools were designed to replace Native American traditional ways of life with mainstream American culture. Children were separated from their families, forced to cut their hair, give up their traditional clothing, and trade in their meaningful Native names and take English ones. Students…
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How Many Tribal Governments Are in Arizona? – Part 4 Resources

Teaching Arizona government to young scholars can be challenging, confusing, and honestly boring. These How Many Tribal Governments Are in Arizona digital resources include videos, tribal connections, and websites to bring this important topic to life. Students will be led on an engaging learning adventure exploring the Arizona’s Tribal Governments. They will dig deeper into…
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How Many Tribal Governments Are in Arizona? – Part 3 STEAM

The How Many Tribal Governments Are in Arizona STEAM resources for this lesson focus on Arizona’s geography. Students will explore the 22 tribal lands in Arizona using a hands-on giant map with featured timeline activity. Arizona’s diverse geography includes deep canyons, high and low-elevation deserts, numerous natural rock formations, and volcanic mountain ranges. Students will…
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How Many Tribal Governments Are in Arizona? – Part 2 ELA

The How Many Tribal Governments Are in Arizona? (ELA) portion contains nonfiction reading passages with comprehension questions, an exploratory virtual library, an Arizona map activity, and a compare & contrast state and tribal seal activity. There is also an Arizona Native Nations research and brochure writing project which allows students to demonstrate their understanding of…
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How Many Tribal Governments Are in Arizona? – Part 1 History

This lesson investigates the 22 federally recognized tribal governments in Arizona. Tribal governments are sovereign, meaning having the inherent right of a people to govern themselves. Each tribe is responsible for education, law enforcement, health care, and environmental protection on tribal lands. They must maintain houses, roads, bridges, public buildings, technology, and waste treatment. This…
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