Oklahoma Social Studies OKH.C.3.1.C
The Standard
- OKH.C.3
- Evaluate the major political and economic events that transformed the land and its people in the post-Civil War era to statehood.
- OKH.C.3.1
- Examine the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction Treaties on American Indian peoples, territories, and Tribal sovereignty.
Summarize the intent of President Grant’s Peace Policy on the displacement of American Indians from their homelands.
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · OKH.C.3.1
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain why Grant called his policy a peace policy. They describe his plan to move Native nations onto reservations, put religious groups in charge of federal agencies, and encourage farming and Christianity.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain that Grant said the policy would reduce fighting and protect Native peoples. They can also explain that it did not let Native nations keep their homelands. Moving them to reservations made more land available to settlers.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think the policy stopped displacement because it promised peace. They may assume Native nations chose to leave their homelands or controlled the agencies that governed reservation life.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: In two sentences, explain what Grant hoped to achieve and how moving Native nations to reservations fit his plan. Name who ran the federal agencies.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs maps of Cheyenne and Arapaho homelands and their 1870s reservation; have them trace how the land boundaries changed.
Read a short excerpt from Grant's message about reservations; ask, "Who does he say the policy will protect, and who controls the land?"
Have students sort index cards marked peace, religious agents, reservations, and lost homelands into stated goals, methods, and effects.
Use an Oklahoma tribal jurisdiction map to locate the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes today; compare it with the earlier homeland map.
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