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Identifying Native American Societies, Territories, Languages, and Treaties
Native-Land.ca offers an online platform where users can interact with maps of Indigenous territories, treaties, and languages, and locate themselves their favorite places on the map. Fundamentally, the maps aim to visualize the complexity and diversity of Indigenous peoples, nations, and cultures across the Americas, Australia, and increasingly the world, so that Non-Indigenous and Indigenous people alike can increase their understanding and knowledge of the breadth and depth of Indigenous history in these places.
Click on this link to activate the Native-Land Interactive Map.
Instructions: Use the mapping resource tool to identify the following:
What do you know about the territory that you currently live on?
Please prepare a Google Docs or Microsoft Word document. (Google Slides if given as a group project) Submit your assignment to your schoology queue once you have completed it.
Click on this link to activate the Native-Land Interactive Map.
Instructions: Use the mapping resource tool to identify the following:
What do you know about the territory that you currently live on?
- Within the interactive mapping tool, (Search Bar to the left of the screen) enter your current address, or the city in which you currently live. (You may also enter another address of interest, such as your birthplace, or another state locatinn you lived in.) BE SURE THE "Territories" TOGGLE SWITCH IS ON. (GREEN LIGHT ON THE TOGGLE SWITCH)
- Once you have entered the address or location, the map will provide you with tribal information for that geographical location. Look to the bottom left hand corner for the textbox that says 'You are on the land of:"
- It will provide you with the links to more information on the tribe. You will need to click on the links to be taken to websites that will provide background/geographical information on the tribe.
- Write a brief reflective summary that will address the questions below:
- Name the area, and the indigenous people that live in that area. Do they still exist in that area, or are they in a different area currently?
- What is the overall population, and geographical size of the area?
- What do you know about the culture of the indigenous people that lived on that land? Traditions? Cultural nuances, or things that made them different than other tribes? Languages? Treaties that affected them? (You can probably find this information on the tribal website, in the "About" area of the website. (If there is no link to the tribal website, do a quick web search to learn more about your Indigenous region's/tribes history)
- What was something about this indigenous population that you learned that you did not know?
- What plants and animals exist in the area and note how geography impacts these traditions. (Eg.: Families that live along the Skeena River traditionally fish salmon every summer as the salmon go to spawn upstream.)
- Add any additional information that you find as you research the websites that you feel would be pertinent. Any item that will advance our knowledge of the history behind the indigenous people of that area is relevant.
Please prepare a Google Docs or Microsoft Word document. (Google Slides if given as a group project) Submit your assignment to your schoology queue once you have completed it.