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    This document provides a summary of 10 resources for teaching about European and Native American relationships. It includes primary documents, videos, images and excerpts. The rationale outlines some resource limitations, such as advanced language or content only appropriate for older students. Guidance is provided for selecting excerpts and portions of videos and documents that are suitable for different age groups. The goal appears to be providing a range of sources that illustrate the interactions and perspectives of Europeans and Native Americans during the early colonial period.

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    This document provides a summary of 10 resources for teaching about European and Native American relationships. It includes primary documents, videos, images and excerpts. The rationale outlines some resource limitations, such as advanced language or content only appropriate for older students. Guidance is provided for selecting excerpts and portions of videos and documents that are suitable for different age groups. The goal appears to be providing a range of sources that illustrate the interactions and perspectives of Europeans and Native Americans during the early colonial period.

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    Resource-Organization Tool: European-Native American Relationships

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    This document provides a summary of 10 resources for teaching about European and Native American relationships. It includes primary documents, videos, images and excerpts. The rationale outlines some resource limitations, such as advanced language or content only appropriate for older students. Guidance is provided for selecting excerpts and portions of videos and documents that are suitable for different age groups. The goal appears to be providing a range of sources that illustrate the interactions and perspectives of Europeans and Native Americans during the early colonial period.

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    Resource-Organization Tool: European-Native American Relationships

    Resource Medium Age/ Developmental Range 5th-High School Rationale Resource Limitation Students must be advanced readers because of the language Excerpt selfselected for lack of violent imagery (see attached) Students must follow directions and stop the video at 3 minutes. Excerpt of video selected for lack of violent imagery

    1. Excerpt from Brief Account of Devastation (de Las Casas)

    Text

    Primary document that clearly states the treatment of Native Americans by European settlers

    2. Video of excerpt from A Brief Account of Devastation (de Las Casas)

    Video http:// zinnedproject.org/ posts/11250

    5th-High School

    The format makes de Las Casas argument accessible to a wider range of readers

    Resource

    Medium

    Age/ Developmental Range 5th-High School

    Rationale

    Resource Limitation Very advanced language in document Excerpt has been heavily edited to make it approachable by the average 5th grader (see attached)

    3. Excerpt from The Requerimiento

    Text

    Primary document; read by Spanish when they encountered a new group of Native Americans; clearly states intention to enslave Native Americans if they do not convert to Christianity

    Resource

    Medium

    Age/ Developmental Range 3rd-5th

    Rationale

    Resource Limitation

    6. BrainPOP Video on Pocahontas and Jamestown Settlement

    Video http:// www.brainpop.c om/ socialstudies/ famoushistorical gures/ pocahontas/

    This video is None easily understood by any 5th grader. It clearly presents Native Americans as aggressors who were redeemed by Pocahontas

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    Medium

    Age/ Developmental Range

    Rationale

    Resource Limitation

    7. Jamestown and Video 4th-5th Yorktown http:// Settlement & www.historyisfun Victory Center .org/jamestowneconomy.htm

    This video is None easily understood by any 5th grader. It clearly presents the peaceful ways that Native Americans and Europeans traded with each other for mutual benefit.

    8. Images of Images (PDF) Jamestown and the environment

    5th-High School

    These images will support students understanding of the natural environment and the successes and challenges that the environment caused the settlers

    Students might need guidance in considering the impact of the environment on the lives of the settlers, particularly because these images emphasize abundance

    Resource

    Medium

    Age/ Developmental Range

    Rationale

    Resource Limitation

    9. Death at Jamestown History Channel video clip

    Video 5th-8th http:// www.history.com/ topics/jamestown/ media#death-atjamestown

    This video clearly None illustrates how ill prepared colonists were to survive in Jamestown, but how they learned to survive through cash crops This video illustrates the hardships early settlers faced in Jamestown

    10. Life at Jamestown History Channel video clip

    Video 5th-8th http:// www.history.com/ topics/jamestown/ media#life-injamestown video

    4. Reconsider Columbus Day

    5th-High School This video clearly states reasons to http:// reconsider zinnedproject.or celebrating g/posts/812 Columbus Day; it is a secondary source document with an explicit opinion

    Resource

    Medium

    Age/ Developmental Range 5th-High School

    Rationale

    Resource Limitation Students might have difficulty comprehending all of the vocabulary, though main ideas should be easily determined

    5. Excerpts from Columbus journals

    Text

    These excerpts clearly illustrate the prejudice and intentions of Columbus to enslave Native people

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