Alabama Social Studies SS24.AS.6a
The Standard
- SS24.AS.6
- Identify the locations of the major Native American tribes of Alabama during the colonial period into the nineteenth century.
Compare and contrast the major Native American tribes in Alabama of the colonial period and nineteenth century.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Origins
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students locate the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Muscogee Creek in Alabama during the colonial period and early 1800s. They compare where these nations lived and how their communities differed, then describe the effects of nineteenth-century removal.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can place all four nations in broad regions on an early 1800s Alabama map. They can use source details to name a similarity and a difference between two nations, and explain that Native communities remained in Alabama after removal.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat the four nations as one group with the same language and homeland. They may think removal meant no Native people remained in Alabama.
How to Assess It
- Give students a blank Alabama map and ask them to label the four nations’ broad homelands around 1800. Have them write one similarity, one difference, and one effect of removal.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Place tracing paper over a colonial-era nations map of Alabama, then mark broad homelands and trace 1830s removal routes on a second map.
Give students short profiles of the Cherokee and Muscogee Creek; ask them to write one similarity and one difference using a detail from each.
Sort cards labeled northeast, northwest, western, and central and eastern Alabama under the four nation names, then check answers against a dated map.
Use the Poarch Band of Creek Indians’ official website to find its Alabama location and one example of the community’s work today.
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