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Timeline: Scalp Bounties Targeting Tribal Nations in the Revolutionary War
This timeline reveals scalp bounties and campaigns carried out during the Revolutionary era by “Patriot” and British aligned forces. Bounties offered by military and political officials incentivized scalping, captivity, dispossession, and campaigns of ethnic cleansing targeting Tribal Nations throughout and beyond the thirteen colonies.
Native Boarding School Lesson: Zitkala-Sa’s Diary
This lesson, using excerpts from Zitkala-Sa’s diary, The School Days of an Indian Girl, explores the question: “What role the Indian Boarding Schools play in assimilation of Native peoples and attempted annihilation of their cultures?”
Metacomet’s Resistance (King Philip’s War): Case Study and Discussion Guide
This Case Study provides background for understanding Metacomet’s Resistance, also known as King Philip’s War.
Listening Circles Activity
Guidance for using Listening Circles - perhaps the oldest form of social technology known to humankind. Their purpose can vary according to the situation and the needs of those who call together the Circle.
Visual Thinking Skills: Colonialism and Settler Colonialism
In this lesson, students explore photographs and historical primary source images to explore the narratives in them related to our country and society.
Exploring the Doctrine of Discovery
This assignment “Revealing the Shore Lens” was created by history teachers and uses information from the article, “Two Kinds of Beings: The Doctrine of Discovery And Its Implications for Yesterday and Today,” by Robert Francis.
Writing Assignment: the five “Rs”
Indigenous societies have value systems that are organized around ways of knowing and being, of teaching and learning, and of conveying their understanding of the world and how things work.
Among shared values of Indigenous peoples are Relationality, Reciprocity, Responsibility, Reverence, and Respect.
This writing assignment explores these five “R”s.
Coexist Film & Learning Resources
The Coexist Teacher's Guide’s synopsis, historical overview, timeline, and extensive resources help educators examine Rwandan history, forced reconciliation, personal healing, forgiveness, betrayal, genuine reconciliation, and other important topics.
First Light Film & Learning Resources
First Light learning resources connect educators to sources, questions, and activities to deepen understanding of the brutal history of settler colonialism, its impact on Native peoples, and the healing that can accompany a truth and reconciliation commission.
Dawnland Film & Learning Resources
The compelling question at the center of the Dawnland Teacher’s Guide — What is the relationship between the taking of the land and the taking of the children? — frames study across 12 lessons and will help students collect, analyze, and organize evidence to support an argument that answers the question.
Dear Georgina Film and Viewer’s guide
The Dear Georgina Viewer’s Guide helps teachers understand how historical and intergenerational trauma influence the emotional lives of children and young people. It also links Georgina's story to the more recent separation of children from their families at international borders.
Bounty Film and Teacher’s guide
The Bounty Teacher’s Guide and accompanying interactive resources deepen understanding of the issues raised in Bounty through the compelling question at the center of the guide — What is the relationship between the taking of the land and the taking of the scalps?
Reciprocity Project Season one films & Learning Resources
Reciprocity Project discussion guides offer a variety of education and community resources to complement the films. Use them before or after viewing.
Before Boston Walking Tour
How the Freedom Trail Paved Over Indigenous History:
This Storymap provides a hidden historical narrative of Native spaces in greater Shawmut, before it became known as Boston.
Owl's Head Bay Massacre - Storymap
This StoryMap supports a place-based historical recovery initiative and mapping, which revisits James Cargill's murderous bounty rampage against Penobscot people in July 1755.
Pennsylvania Scalp Law Lesson
1780 Pennsylvania Bounty Proclamation, Joseph Reed: This set of documentary sources and lessons focuses on scalp bounty raids, laws and rewards offered to colonial combatants by Pennsylvania Colony during the Revolutionary War.
Bounty Archive Research Database
Upstander Project created the bounty rewards archive as a public learning and teaching resource to accompany the Bounty film project. The database includes 2,438 entries and represents several years of extensive archival and documentary research into scalp bounty acts and claims made by colonial governments and settlers in the northeastern Dawnland (later called New England), between 1675-1765.
Timeline: Bounty Systems in Ckuwaponahkik, the Dawnland and the Eastern Woodlands
This timeline covers the period between 1675-1765, spanning what are often known as the Six Anglo-Abenaki Wars. These conflicts (with the exception of the first, which we refer to as Pometacomet’s Resistance/King Philip’s War) were largely fought between colonial English and French forces for control of what is today northern New England and Eastern Canada.
Walking Tour of Native Erasure in Colonial Cambridge
This virtual walking tour and map focuses on Native Spaces in Massachusett homelands, in what became the colonized place the English called Newtowne, later Cambridge. While many of the locations may be familiar landmarks, this walking tour provides a hidden historical narrative which tells a story of Massachusett survivance and settler colonialism.