Lin and Don Donn
Mrdonn.org: Daily Life in Olden Times: Southeast Cherokee Indians
Lesson and resources on the history of the Cherokee Indian tribe.
University of California
History Project: The Removal of the Cherokee Nation
Middle school lesson plan attempts to answer the question of the government's Indian policy and its relationship to the Cherokee. Students will use sections from 26 primary source documents to aid in the research.
Curated OER
National Park Service: Trail of Tears and Forced Relocation of Cherokee
This Teaching With Historic Places unit, designed for students in grades 5-12 is about the conflict between American settlers and the Cherokee Nation. Students will outline events leading up to the forced relocation of the Cherokee in...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Move the Cherokee People
During this lesson, learners will explore facts about the Cherokee people, their history, their culture, and their future. This lesson will help students begin to realize how the actions of our predecessors affected people in the past...
University of California
History Project: The Removal of the Cherokee Nation
Lesson on U.S. white-Indian relations and domestic Removal Policy in which students read and analyze primary source material then, based on questions provided, write a narrative evaluating the events leading to the Trail of Tears.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Traditions and Languages of Three Native Cultures
This lesson plan helps students learn aspects of three Native American languages, the Tlingit, Lakota, and Cherokee. Five lessons lead teachers and students through traditions, similarities and differences, and the importance of...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Would You Fit in With the Cherokees?
By gaining knowledge of other cultures, learners will gain respect and appreciation for all people. Students will also become more interested in their own culture by exploring their own beliefs and customs.
Other
Teach Us History: Indian Removal
A lesson unit that looks at the efforts of the Cherokee Nation in Georgia between 1817 and 1827 to establish their own system of governance and to keep their lands from being ceded. Even though the Supreme Court ultimately ruled in their...
Other
Teaching Tennessee History: Lesson Plans for the Classroom Volume v [Pdf]
These series of lesson plans provide information about cultures in conflict, the Revolutionary Era on the Cherokee frontier.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Historic Indian Tribes of Alabama
This lesson plan will focus on researching, analyzing, and comparing the culture of four Indian tribes from Alabama's history. The rich culture of the Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, and Choctaw Indian tribes contributed to the rich history...
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Trail of Tears
This detailed site has middle schoolers recreating what the Native Americans went through during the Trail of Tears. This lesson plan allows for critical thinking, collaboration, acting/role-playing, and writing.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Rock Layers and Fossils to Infer Past
This activity is an inquiry-based field investigation of the sedimentary geology of Lilydale Regional Park's brickyards area, a bluff and slope location near St. Paul Minnesota's Harriet Island and Cherokee Heights Park. Young scholars...
Library of Congress
Loc: Learning Page: Government Policy for Native Americans
Text and historically significant documents pertaining to the young US government's policies toward Native Americans.
PBS
Pbs: Indian Country Diaries, Tribal Sovereignty Lesson Plan
This instructional activity will ask students to review sections of A Seat at the Drum and Spiral of Fire where the many issues of tribal sovereignty are evident. Students will be asked to research the sovereignty issues facing a tribe...
Volunteer Voices
Volunteer Voices: On the Trail of Tears [Pdf]
In this lesson, students work with primary source documents to recapture the experience of traveling on the Trail of Tears.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Creating a Prehistoric World
In the lesson, students will research, create, and present knowledge gained about Prehistoric and Historic Native Americans in Alabama. This lesson plan is made possible through the ALEX and the U.S. National Park Service Partnership.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Creek War Journals
After a study of the Creek War, students will explore perspectives of families on both sides of the war. Students will compose journal entries from a selected social class of the era to develop and exhibit an understanding and...
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