Indian Resistance in Growing America J-607M

This Jackdaw is the appropriate reading level for upper elementary, middle school and high school students reading below grade level. It contains the same, ready-to-use, hands-on historical documents as the original, upper-level Jackdaw; most of the documents are actual-size replicas. The fully reproducible Broadsheets provide historical background for understanding the documents.

This Jackdaw and its hands-on documents — a Catlin map, historical illustrations, Jefferson’s notes, and a letter from a chief — will help students understand the white man’s “Indian problem,” and the Indian’s “white problem.” This Jackdaw teaches a wide scope of American Indian history, covering the subject from the 1600s to 1970s, from the East to West Coasts, and focusing on the key leaders of Indian nations. The documents provide a positive image of the Indians and their pleas for justice. Historian: Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., adapted by Muriel L. Dubois. The contents of this Jackdaw feature: Broadsheets

• King Philip’s War
• Tecumseh and Expansion Across the Allegheny
• Manifest Destiny and its Opponents
• Non-resistant Chiefs
• American Expansion on the Plains
• Modem Indian Policy and Indian Resistance Today

Historical Documents

• Pages from the first Bible printed in America, 1663.
• Paul Revere’s drawing of King Philip.
• An engraving, “How They Catch Fish,” from Thomas Hariot’s “Briefe and True Report of the new Found Land of Virginia.”
• An engraving, “The Town of Secotan,” an Indian village.
• Pages from Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia (London, 1787) telling the tragedy of Logan, a Mingo chief.
• Portraits of Indian leaders: The Prophet, Osceola, Sequoya and Keokuk.
• Title page of autobiography of Sauk and Fox chieftain, Black Hawk.
• Part of a letter written in the Nez Percé language by a chief.
• Illustration of Chief Joseph being pursued by U.S. Troops, 1877.
• Hopi petition asking government for grazing lands.
• Remington’s painting of the Ghost Dance of Oglala Sioux.
• A map of the Indian tribes, drawn in 1865 by George Catlin,

Study Guide / Lesson Plan – Reproducible Activities