Indiana Social Studies 8.H.1
The Standard
Identify the major Native American groups and identify cause and effect relationships between European settlers and these Native American groups that led to conflict and cooperation.
2026 Indiana Academic Standards: K-12 Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify Native nations in the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley region, including the Miami, Potawatomi, and Shawnee. They explain how fur trade and land claims led to cooperation or conflict with Europeans.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can place the Miami near the Wabash River and the Potawatomi near Lake Michigan on a map. They can explain how French fur trade supported cooperation with Miami communities and how settler land claims led to Shawnee resistance.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat Native nations as one group with one response to Europeans. They may assume trading partners never fought, or that everyone agreed to settlers' land claims.
How to Assess It
- On an exit ticket, have students mark the Miami and Potawatomi on a map. Ask them to write one cause-and-effect sentence about fur trade and another about settler land claims, naming a Native nation in each.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs an outline map; have them place Miami, Potawatomi, and Shawnee labels, then mark French trading posts and settler land claims.
Ask, 'Why might Miami leaders trade with French traders but resist settlers claiming their land?' Require one cause and one effect.
Deal pairs six event cards to sort into cooperation or conflict, then have them write a cause-and-effect sentence for each.
Find Miami County on a current Indiana map, then compare its location with a map of Miami homelands.
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