Indian Policy Docs
From: Digital History
Grade Level: (HS), College
Remote Ready: With Modifications
Time: 1-2 class periods
Length of Reading: Pages
Link: Indian Removal
This lesson features several excellent, short primary sources. Docs include excerpts regarding the Indian policies of: TJ, Monroe, and Jackson, in their own words. Maps and political cartoons about removal are also included. Read what those on the Trail of Tears and Indian leaders said about removal.
There is an overarching question about how Indian Policy changed over time (under the "teacher resources" tab) but no recommended activity. Teachers might have students read the docs, fill out a standard Document Analysis Worksheet from the National Archives and discuss. Or each group can tackle a few docs; then groups can jigsaw to explain their docs to each other.
Several links are no longer working, but these are non-essential and there are many other primary sources. The broke links include links to: the Cherokee alphabet, Indian Affairs laws and treaties, the Cherokee newspaper, speech against removal, and speech in favor of removal.
More Information:
Grade Level:
(HS), College: This lesson is meant for college students; however, we think it would be excellent for high school students too
This Activity Involves:
Primary Source: This activity utilizes primary sources.
Historical caricature of the Cherokee nation. [Place not identified: Publisher not identified] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2008661841/>.
