Oklahoma Social Studies OKH.C.6.2.A
The Standard
- OKH.C.6
- Examine Oklahoma’s political, economic, and social history regarding race during the early decades following statehood.
- OKH.C.6.2
- Examine government policies impacting American Indian identity, culture, economy, Tribal government, and sovereignty.
Analyze the effects of federal policy to forcibly assimilate Native children through the establishment of Indian boarding schools (e.g., Riverside Indian School, Chilocco Indian Agricultural School) on Native culture.
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · OKH.C.6.2
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students examine how federal boarding schools separated Native children from their families and restricted their languages and customs. They use school records and Native accounts to explain cultural effects and how families kept traditions alive.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can link a school practice, such as a language ban, to changes in how knowledge passed between generations. They support that link with evidence and recognize that Native communities continued to preserve their cultures.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume families freely chose these schools or that the schools only taught job skills. They may treat Native nations as one culture or assume their traditions disappeared.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: How could separating children from their families and restricting Native languages at Chilocco affect cultural knowledge across generations? Explain two steps in the chain.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Print a boarding school language rule and a Native survivor account; pairs circle the rule and underline its reported effect.
Ask, 'How could a language ban affect family stories, and how might families keep those stories alive?'
Have pairs match cards naming practices at Chilocco or Riverside to possible cultural effects, then defend or revise each match.
Read an announcement for a Native language program in Oklahoma; students connect its goal to one boarding school policy.
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