Idaho Social Studies 4.SS.1.6
The Standard
Compare and contrast the historical and current key characteristics of the five federally recognized American Indian tribes in Idaho: Coeur d’Alene Tribe, Kootenai Tribe of Idaho, Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, Nez Perce Tribe, and Shoshone-Paiute Tribes and ceded and current reservation lands.
Idaho Content Standards: K-12 Social Studies
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What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students use maps and tribal sources to compare Idaho’s five federally recognized tribes. They describe changes and continuities in land, language, and community life. They tell ceded lands apart from current reservation lands.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can locate each tribe’s current reservation and identify ceded lands on a map. They can describe a past and present characteristic for each tribe, then name a similarity and a difference between two tribes.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may mistake ceded lands for current reservations or assume every tribe ceded land in the same way. They may describe the tribes as groups that existed only in the past. The shared name Shoshone may lead them to treat the Shoshone-Bannock and Shoshone-Paiute as one government.
How to Assess It
- Give students two land maps and a five-tribe fact sheet. Ask them to label each current reservation, identify one ceded area, and write one past-and-present comparison for two tribes.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs maps from tribal sources and tracing paper to mark historical homelands, ceded lands, and current reservations for all five tribes.
Using two tribal history pages, ask students to write how the Nez Perce and Coeur d’Alene peoples describe past and present ties to land.
Play a card sort with tribe names, historical land maps, current reservation maps, and present-day government facts.
Locate your town on tribal land maps, then check whether it falls within any ceded lands or current reservation boundaries.
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