Lesson Plan: High School History
How Native American Representations Have Changed over Time.
Begin Class by asking students to draw a picture of an American Indian. Ask for examples and descriptions of drawings.
Discussion:
How did we come to see American Indians as they have been drawn?
What contemporary examples of Indians can we think of that frame the way we imagine Indians?
Lecture:
Colonial Representations-Christianity and the American Indian. Fears of "Savagery."
Revolutionary Rhetoric-Fraternal Organizations and the "Noble Savage."
Print Culture-Sensational Stories, Science, Expansion. "Ignoble Savage"
Image Analysis:
Group Work:
In an envelope you have three different primary sources describing Indigenous people in the nineteenth century. Each source is from a different region of the world. How are they similar to each other? How are they different? What connections can we draw from our research? Conclusions? What other kinds of sources might be helpful to examine? Each group will present the class with their analysis.
