Idaho Social Studies 6-12.US1.37
The Standard
Understand how the interactions between the five federally recognized Idaho Tribal governments of Coeur d’Alene Tribe, Kootenai Tribe of Idaho, Shoshone Bannock Tribes, Nez Perce Tribe, and Shoshone-Paiute Tribes and national, state, and local governments have impacted American Indian Tribal sovereignty over time.
Idaho Content Standards: K-12 Social Studies · Geographic Expansion and Political and Social Changes 1820-1860
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What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students distinguish the Coeur d’Alene, Kootenai, Shoshone-Bannock, Nez Perce, and Shoshone-Paiute as five Tribal governments. They use maps, treaties, and laws to explain how dealings with federal, state, and local governments affected each government’s authority over time.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can use a dated treaty or law to name the governments involved and explain what changed for a Tribe. They can explain why losing land did not mean losing the right to govern.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think federal recognition created Tribal sovereignty, or that all five Tribes signed the same treaties. They may assume state or county rules always override Tribal decisions on reservation land.
How to Assess It
- For an exit ticket, state that federal negotiators and some Nez Perce leaders signed an 1863 treaty reducing the 1855 reservation. Ask what changed and whether Nez Perce sovereignty ended.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs maps of the 1855 and 1863 Nez Perce reservations; have them trace both boundaries and mark land excluded in 1863.
Ask: “Did the 1863 treaty end Nez Perce self-government? Explain why land loss and sovereignty are not the same thing.”
Deal cards reading “Tribal council decision,” “federal treaty,” “Idaho fishing rule,” and “county road proposal”; students sort decision makers and mark possible overlap.
Show an Idaho map naming all five Tribal governments; have students write one question a county planner should ask before routing a road across reservation land.
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