Role 4: Native American
It is the late 1830’s. You are one of the 17,000 Cherokees that are being forced to leave your sacred homelands of Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee, and march to the Indian Territory in the West. As you move from your home, what experiences do you have? Explore the feelings, emotions, and changes that you go through as you are moved from your home.
Essential Questions:
1. Who is your leader on this journey?
2. What do you take with you? What do you need that you do not have?
3. Why do you have to leave your sacred homeland?
4. What did Sequoyah invent? Why was it important?
5. What treaty was signed that forced your move?
6. What was the legend of the Cherokee Rose?
7. How many Cherokee’s died on the trail west? Why did they die?
8. What was waiting for you once you reached the West?
9. What geography, land features and natural resources did you come across along the way and how was this different from home?
10. What types of interactions did you have with white people?
11. What is your new home like?
It is the late 1830’s. You are one of the 17,000 Cherokees that are being forced to leave your sacred homelands of Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee, and march to the Indian Territory in the West. As you move from your home, what experiences do you have? Explore the feelings, emotions, and changes that you go through as you are moved from your home.
Essential Questions:
1. Who is your leader on this journey?
2. What do you take with you? What do you need that you do not have?
3. Why do you have to leave your sacred homeland?
4. What did Sequoyah invent? Why was it important?
5. What treaty was signed that forced your move?
6. What was the legend of the Cherokee Rose?
7. How many Cherokee’s died on the trail west? Why did they die?
8. What was waiting for you once you reached the West?
9. What geography, land features and natural resources did you come across along the way and how was this different from home?
10. What types of interactions did you have with white people?
11. What is your new home like?
Resources
Impact of Westward Expansion on Native Americans
Trail of Standing Bear
Native Americans: Oregon Trail
Trail of Standing Bear
Native Americans: Oregon Trail
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