LD 291 Concentrated Area of Study:
Cultural Systems
(1)

Major Concept: Worldview (belief systems)

Essential Understanding: Wabanaki worldview is rooted in respect for the interdependency of life.

Essential Questions:

What is worldview? What is the Wabanaki worldview?

How do Wabanaki people show respect for the interdependency of life through stories, coexistence, consensus and conservation?

What has changed and remained the same about Wabanaki worldview over time?

Learning Result Area:
History

C. Historical Inquiry, Analysis, and Interpretation

Students will learn to evaluate resource material such as documents, artifacts, maps, artworks, and literature, and to make judgments about the perspectives of the authors and their credibility when interpreting current historical events.

Cultural Systems
(2)

Major Concept: Wabanaki Culture: Ways of life and cultural practices

Essential Understanding: Wabanaki culture is informed by the Wabanaki worldview passed on through generations.

Essential Questions:

How are Wabanaki cultural practices and products connected to their beliefs and values?

How does the environment shape cultures? How does/did it shape Wabanaki culture?

How and why have cultural practices changed and remained the same over time? How has the Wabanaki worldview been passed on through generations?

Learning Result Area:
History
Geography

B. Human Interaction with Environments

Students will understand and analyze the relationships among people and their physical environment.

Cultural Systems
(3)

Major Concept: Unequal Power

Essential Understanding Unequal power relationships have lead to historical injustices, stereotyping, prejudice, racism, and genocide of Wabanaki people.

Essential Questions:

What is power and who has it?

How and why do ethnic groups become de-humanized by racism?

What were/are the power relationships between Wabanaki and Euro-Americans?

Learning Result Area:
History

C. Historical Inquiry, Analysis, and Interpretation

Students will learn to evaluate resource material such as documents, artifacts, maps, artworks, and literature, and to make judgments about the perspectives of the authors and their credibility when interpreting current historical events.

LD 291 Concentrated Area of Study:
Maine Native American Economic Systems
(1)

Major Concept: Land-Based Economics

Essential Understanding: Pre-contact Wabanaki economic systems were complex, integrated, and sophisticated.

Essential Questions:

What is an economic system and what did Wabanaki economic systems look like prior to contact?

How did pre-contact Wabanaki economic systems integrate people and communities and utilize resources in sophisticated ways?

What aspects of pre-contact Wabanaki economic systems exist today?

Learning Result Area:
Economics

C. Comparative Systems

Students will analyze how different economic systems function and change over time.

Maine Native American Economic Systems
(2)

Major Concepts: Economic Change

Essential Understanding: Interactions with Europeans changed the land and the ways in which Wabanaki peoples were able to control their economic systems.

Essential Questions:

What was the European economic system and how was it different from pre-contact Wabanaki systems?

How did interactions with Europeans change the Wabanaki economic system?

How did people organize communities and utilize resources?

How did power shift from Wabanaki peoples to Europeans?

Learning Result Area:
Economics

C. Comparative Systems

Students will analyze how different economic systems function and change over time.

Maine Native American Economic Systems
(3)

Major Concept: Economic Independence

Essential Understanding: Economic self-sufficiency is crucial to the continued survival of Wabanaki peoples.

Essential Questions:

Why is it crucial for Wabanaki communities to be self-sufficient?

What challenges do Wabanaki communities face in achieving economic self-sufficiency?

How is economic self-sufficiency a critical part of tribal sovereignty?

C. Comparative Systems

Students will analyze how different economic systems function and change over time.

LD 291 Concentrated Area of Study:
Maine Tribal Governments & Political Systems
(1)

Major Concept: Sovereignty

Essential Understanding: Sovereignty is critical to the independence and survival of Wabanaki peoples

Essential Questions:

What does it mean to be sovereign? What is the relationship between sovereignty and independence?

Where does tribal sovereignty come from?

How is sovereignty critical to the survival of Wabanaki people?

Learning Result Area:
Civics and Government

C. Fundamental Principles of Government and Constitutions

Students will understand the constitutional principles and the democratic foundations of the political institutions of the United States.

Maine Tribal Governments & Political Systems
(2)

Major Concept: Diplomacy and Interdependence

Essential Understanding: Through diplomacy, treaties and colonization, Wabanaki peoples have had and continue to have interdependent relations with Native nations and others.

Essential Questions:

How does Wabanaki diplomacy demonstrate interdependency?

What are treaties and how have they impacted Wabanaki peoples?

What is colonization and how does it continue to impact Wabanaki peoples?

Learning Result Area:
Civics and Government

D. International Relations

Students will understand the political relationships among the United States and other nations.

Maine Tribal Governments & Political Systems
(3)

Major Concept: Governance

Essential Understanding: Wabanaki tribal governments are independent, interdependent and sovereign and influenced by cultural traditions.

Essential Questions:

How are tribal governments structured? How are tribal governments independent and interdependent?

What services do tribal governments provide?

What issues do the Wabanaki tribal government deal with?

What were the cultural traditions of tribal governments and how do these traditions impact them today?

Learning Result Area:
Civics and Government

B. Fundamental Principles of Government and Constitutions

Students will understand constitutional principles and the democratic foundations of the political institutions of the Untied States.

LD 291 Concentrated Area of Study:
History
(1)

Major Concept: Worldview

Essential Understanding: Interpretation of the world through collective cultural traditions and historical shapes Wabanaki worldview.

Essential Questions:

How are people culturally and historically connected to the world?

What forms a culture's worldview?

What is the Wabanaki worldview?

How has the lack of consideration for the Wabanaki worldview affected the history written about Native peoples in Maine and the Maritimes?

Learning Result Area:
History

B. Historical Knowledge, Concepts, and Patterns

Students will develop historical knowledge of major events, people, and enduring themes in the United States, in Maine, and throughout world history.

C. Historical Inquiry, Analysis, and Interpretation

Students will learn to evaluate resource material such as documents, artifacts, maps, artworks, and literature, and to make judgments about the perspectives of the authors and their credibility when interpreting current historical events.

History
(2)

Major Concepts: Change & Continuity

Essential understanding: Wabanakis have maintained cultural continuity while adapting to the changing political, economic, social and physical environments.

Essential Questions:

How have Wabanakis maintained and changed their cultural and social traditions over time?

How have Wabanakis maintained and changed their political and economic traditions over time?

How have changes in the physical environment affected Wabanaki people over time?

Learning Result Area:
History

B. Historical Knowledge, Concepts, and Patterns

Students will develop historical knowledge of major events, people, and enduring themes in the United States, in Maine, and throughout world history.

Geography

B. Human Interaction with Environments

Students will understand and analyze the relationships among people and their physical environment.

History
(3)

Major Concept: Sustainability

Essential Understanding: Wabanaki people have shown cultural and physical sustainability throughout time despite massive changes.

Essential Questions:

What strategies did/do the Wabanaki used/use and adapt to their culture while being impacted by the changing population around them?

Native 'worlds' were turned upside down after European exploration and settlement. What effects did these events have on Wabanaki people?

How have treaties and alliances (Native/Native) (Native/European) and governmental policies affected Wabanaki communities historically and presently?

Learning Result Area:
History

B. Historical Knowledge, Concepts, and Patterns

Students will develop historical knowledge of major events, people, and enduring themes in the United States, in Maine, and throughout world history.

Civics and Government

D. International Relations

Students will understand the political relationships among the United States and other nations.

LD 291 Concentrated Area of Study:
Maine Native American Territories
(1)

Major Concept: Homeland

Essential Understanding: Wabanaki life sources and homelands are rooted in cultural traditions and beliefs.

Essential Questions:

What does territory mean to Wabanaki people?

What is a " Life Source" for the Wabanaki?

What is a Wabanaki homeland?

What Wabanaki cultural traditions and beliefs shaped/shape uses of resources/homeland?

Learning Result Area:
Geography

B. Human Interaction with Environments

Students will understand and analyze the relationships among people and their physical environment.

Maine Native American Territories
(2)

Major Concepts: Geography and Human Interaction with Environments

Essential Understanding: The extent of Wabanaki territories has changed over time.

Essential Questions:

Where were Wabanaki territories prior to contact?

How did contact and colonization impact Wabanaki territories?

Where are Wabanaki territories today?

Learning Result Area:
Geography

A. Skills and Tools

Students will know how to construct and interpret maps and use globes and other geographic tools to locate and derive information about people, places, regions, and environments.

Maine Native American Territories
(3)

Major Concepts: Sovereignty and Control

Essential Understanding: Control over Wabanaki Territories is critical to the survival of Wabanaki peoples.

Essential Questions:

What does it mean to control or be sovereign over a territory?

How does controlling territory maintain Wabanaki communities and cultures?

Learning Result Area:
Civics and Government

A. Rights, Responsibilities, and Participation

Students will understand the rights and responsibilities of civic life and will employ the skills of effective civic participation