Academic Standards
Native American Indians
Academic Standards
Native American Indians

Indiana
3..1.1 Identify and describe Native American Indians who lived in the region when European settlers arrived. (Core Standard) Example: Miami, Shawnee, Kickapoo, Algonquian, Delaware, Potawatomi and Wyandot
3.1.2 Explain why and how the local community was established and identify its founders and early settlers. (Core Standard)
3.1.3 Describe the role of the local community and other communities in the development of the state's regions. (Core Standard) Example: Fort Wayne was an early trade center because of the convergence of three rivers in the area. Moving the state capitol to Indianapolis encouraged growth in the central region of Indiana.
3.1.4 Give examples of people, events and developments that brought important changes to the regions of Indiana. (Core Standard)
Example: Developments in transportation, such as the building of canals, roads and railroads, connected communities and caused changes in population or industry.
3.1.5 Chronological Thinking, Historical Comprehension, Analysis and Interpretation, Research: Create simple timelines that identify important events in various regions of the state. (Core Standard)
3.1.6 Chronological Thinking, Historical Comprehension, Analysis and Interpretation, Research: Use a variety of community resources to gather information about the regional communities. (Core Standard) Example: Libraries, museums, county historians, chambers of commerce, Web sites, and digital newspapers and archives
3.1.7 Chronological Thinking, Historical Comprehension, Analysis and Interpretation, Research: Distinguish between fact and fiction in historical accounts by comparing documentary sources on historical figures and events with fictional characters and events in stories. Example: Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) and Harriet Tubman
4.1.1
4.1.1 Native American Indians and the Arrival of Europeans to 1770. Identify and compare the major early cultures that existed in the region that became Indiana prior to contact with Europeans. Example: Paleo-Indians such as the Hopewell, Adena and the Mississippian cultures
4.1.2 Native American Indians and the Arrival of Europeans to 1770. Identify and describe historic Native American Indian groups that lived in Indiana at the time of early European exploration, including ways these groups adapted to and interacted with the physical environment. (Core Standard) Example: Miami, Shawnee, Potawatomi and Lenape (Delaware)
4.1.3 The American Revolution and the Indiana Territory: 1770s to 1816. Explain the importance of the Revolutionary War and other key events and people that influenced Indiana's development. (Core Standard) Example: George Rogers Clark and the Fall of Vincennes (1779), development of the Northwest Territory, Indiana becoming a U.S. Territory, Chief Little Turtle, Tecumseh, Tenskwatawa (the Prophet), William Henry Harrison, and Battle of Tippecanoe (1811)
4.1.4 The American Revolution and the Indiana Territory: 1770s to 1816. Summarize and explain the significance of key documents in Indiana's development from a United States territory to statehood. (Core Standard) Example: The Land Ordinance of 1784; The Northwest Ordinance (1787), which made Indiana part of the United States territory; and the 1816 Indiana Constitution, which established the first state government
4.1.5 Statehood: 1816 to 1851. Identify the causes of removal of Native American Indian groups in the state and their resettlement during the 1830s. (Core Standard)
4.1.6 Statehood: 1816 to 1851. Explain how key individuals and events influenced the early growth of and changes in Indiana. (Core Standard) Example: Indiana's first governor, Jonathan Jennings; Robert Owen and the New Harmony settlement; moving the state capitol from Corydon to Indianapolis; development of roads and canals in Indiana; and the Indiana Constitution of 1851
5.1.1 Ways of Life Before and After the Arrival of Europeans to 1610. Identify and describe early cultures & settlements that existed in North America prior to contact with Europeans. (Core Standard) Ex.: The Anasazi (100 B.C./B.C.E. - 1300 A.D./C.E.) & Mississippian culture at Cahokia (600 A.D./C.E. - 1400 A.D./C.E.)
5.1.2 Ways of Life Before and After the Arrival of Europeans to 1610. Examine accounts of early European explorations of North America including major land and water routes, reasons for exploration and the impact the exploration had. (Core Standard) Example: The Viking explorations and settlements in Greenland and North America; Spanish expeditions by Christopher Columbus, Hernan Cortes, Hernando de Soto and Francisco Vasquez de Coronado; expeditions by French explorers Jacques Cartier and Samuel de Champlain; and expeditions for England and Holland by explorers Henry Cabot, Henry Hudson and John White
5.1.3 Ways of Life Before and After the Arrival of Europeans to 1610. Identify and compare historic Indian groups of the West, Southwest, Northwest, Arctic and sub-Arctic, Great Plains, and Eastern Woodlands regions at the beginning of European exploration in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. (Core Standard)
Example: Compare styles of housing, settlement patterns, sources of food and clothing, customs and oral traditions, political and economic organization, and types and uses of technology.
5.1.4 Ways of Life Before and After the Arrival of Europeans to 1610. Locate and compare the origins, physical structure and social structure of early Spanish, French and British settlements. (Core Standard) Example: St. Augustine, Roanoke Island, Santa Fe and Jamestown
5.1.5 Colonization and Settlements: 1607 to 1763. Explain the religious, political and economic reasons for movement of people from Europe to the Americas. (Core Standard)
Example: Puritans fleeing religious persecution, search for wealth by the French and Spanish, debtor settlements in Georgia and the African slave trade
5.1.6 Colonization and Settlements: 1607 to 1763. Identify and discuss instances of both cooperation and conflict between Native American Indians and European settlers, such as agriculture, trade, cultural exchanges and military alliances, as well as later broken treaties, massacres and conflicts over control of the land. (Core Standard)
5.1.7 Colonization and Settlements: 1607 to 1763. Identify and locate the 13 British colonies that became the United States and describe daily life (political, social, and economic organization and structure). (Core Standard) Example: Slavery, plantations, town meetings and town markets
5.1.8 Colonization and Settlements: 1607 to 1763. Identify the early founders of colonial settlements and describe early colonial resistance to British rule. (Core Standard)
Example: John Smith, William Bradford, Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, John Winthrop, Thomas Hooker, Nathaniel Bacon, George Whitefield and William Penn