Second Grade Unit Three:Respectful Teaching About

the Creek and Cherokee

Sarah Blascovich BrownTeacher on Assignment

Establishing Our Prior Knowledge

• What do we know about Georgia’s first people?

• Describe their culture as it was when Oglethorpe & other English settlers arrived in Georgia.

• How do Native Americans maintain their culture & heritage today?

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Creek Community Life• Confederation – “tribal towns”

were individual units within it• Covered entirety of

Southeastern US at time of contact

• Removed in 1830s via “treaty” to lands in present-day Oklahoma

• Today’s membership – 60,000

Where the Creek lived in Georgia

• You see that manydifferent treaties and cessions tookthe land of the Creek over time.

• The very first cession, right alongthe Savannah Riverwas to whom?

Cherokee Community Life• Division of

labor betweenmen & women

• Active trading culture

• Settled, farming communities

• Removed to Oklahoma in 1838 – the Trail of Tears

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Whose name is this?• Sequoyah was born in Tennessee,

and lived throughout the Southeast

• He visited fellow Cherokees in Georgia (where the Cherokee capital of New Echota was located)

• He was a fervent believer in preserving Cherokee culture and traditions

• He worked to establish a system of writing known as a syllabary

{New Georgia Encyclopedia}

Resources:Resources:• The New Georgia Encyclopedia (Creek):

http://www.newgeorgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-579&hl=y

• The New Georgia Encyclopedia (Cherokee removal):http://www.newgeorgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2722&hl=y

• The New Georgia Encyclopedia (Sequoyah):http://www.newgeorgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-618&sug=y

• The Cherokee Nation (Oklahoma):http://www.cherokee.org

• The Creek (Muscogee) Nation:http://www.themuscogeecreeknation.com

Resources:Resources:• Oyate (Books, Reviews, Other Publications):

http://www.oyate.org

• American Indians in Children’s Literature:http://www.americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com

• National Museum of the American Indian:http://www.nmai.si.edu/

• Ocmulgee National Monument (Macon):http://www.nps.gov/ocmu/

• New Echota State Historic Site (Calhoun):http://www.gastateparks.org/info/echota/

Resources:Resources:• Oyate (Do and Do nots):

http://www.oyate.org/catalog/poster_to_do_not.html

• Ten Cultural Respect Guidelines:http://www.native-languages.org/ymca.htm

• Cherokee Heritage Center (click on Learn):http://www.cherokeeheritage.org/

• Georgia Tribe of Eastern Cherokee (state-recognized):http://georgiatribeofeasterncherokee.com/

• Perdido Bay Tribe/Lower Muscogee Creeks:http://www.perdidobaytribe.org/Classroom%20Creek%20History.html

Cherokee Resources:Cherokee Resources:The Cherokee Little People, First Fire, The Ice Man, all written by Marijo Moore. These stories are appropriate for retelling to children, and are traditional Cherokee works.

The Cherokee Little People, First Fire, The Ice Man, all written by Marijo Moore. These stories are appropriate for retelling to children, and are traditional Cherokee works.

Itse Selu: Cherokee Harvest Festival, by Daniel Pennington (member of the Cherokee nation), tells not only about the festival, but also about traditional Cherokee life before contact with Europeans.

Itse Selu: Cherokee Harvest Festival, by Daniel Pennington (member of the Cherokee nation), tells not only about the festival, but also about traditional Cherokee life before contact with Europeans.

The Trail of Tears, by Joseph Bruchac (member of the Abenaki nation), discusses the removal of the Cherokee in an historically accurate and respectful way.

The Trail of Tears, by Joseph Bruchac (member of the Abenaki nation), discusses the removal of the Cherokee in an historically accurate and respectful way.

Creek Resources:Creek Resources:

The Good Luck Cat, written by Joy Harjo, who is a member of the Muscogee Nation, is full of wonderful inspiring poetry.

The Good Luck Cat, written by Joy Harjo, who is a member of the Muscogee Nation, is full of wonderful inspiring poetry.

The Great Ball Game, another by Joseph Bruchac, is a traditional Muscogee story.

The Great Ball Game, another by Joseph Bruchac, is a traditional Muscogee story.

Jingle Dancer, by Cynthia Leitich Smith, discusses one girl’s desire to dance in a modern Muscogee celebration. Her website includes teacher resources for this book: http://www.cynthialeitichsmith.com/CLS/cyn_books/_teachers_guide.html

Jingle Dancer, by Cynthia Leitich Smith, discusses one girl’s desire to dance in a modern Muscogee celebration. Her website includes teacher resources for this book: http://www.cynthialeitichsmith.com/CLS/cyn_books/_teachers_guide.html

Teaching Unit Three:Individuals, Groups, & Institutions:

Contributions of Sequoyah to Cherokee cultureShow that Creek & Cherokee had institutions (cultural, governmental, etc., even before

Europeans came to Georgia)

LocationReview ways that geography impacts lifestyleDiscuss differences in Creek & Cherokee lifestyles based on geography of their

particular areas (general ideas)Production, Distribution, and Consumption

Ways that Creek & Cherokee obtained things they could not make or find locallyBarter/trade vs. currency

Teaching Unit Three:Scarcity

Identify resources that were scarce to the Creek and CherokeeDiscuss how scarcity of land affected both groups of people, as well

as the European influence on this idea

Time, Change, and ContinuityCompare ways that European/American cultures have changed

over time to ways that the Creek and Cherokee cultures have changed over time

Compare students’ lives to Sequoyah’s