Learners create a journal entry written from the perspective of a Cherokee, a soldier, or a person involved in the Trail of Tears.

Students analyze policies regarding Native American territories during Westward Expansion. In this Reconstruction instructional activity, students research primary and secondary sources pertaining to the transfer of Native American land....

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...

Lesson and resources on the history of the Cherokee Indian tribe.

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.

This Teaching With Historic Places unit, designed for young scholars 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...

Middle school lesson plan attempts to answer the question of the government's Indian policy and its relationship to the Cherokee. Learners will use sections from 26 primary source documents to aid in the research.

Several lesson plans covering a range of topics from the 1830s through 1860. These plans will give your young scholars experience using primary sources.

In this lesson, students work with primary source documents to recapture the experience of traveling on the Trail of Tears.