SPECIFIC INFORMATION THAT STUDENTS MIGHT ADDRESS IN THE
NATIVE AMERICAN SOCRATIC SEMINAR
TEACHER RESOURCE
BRITISH/NATIVE AMERICAN
RELATIONS
Jamestown
Powhatan
Powhatan Confederacy
Algonquian tribes
Pocahontas
John Rolfe
Powhatan Uprising (1622)
Opechancanough
Indian Wars in frontier Virginia
New England
Massasoit
Pokanokets
Squanto
Pequots
Migration from Massachusetts Bay
Colony to neighboring colonies
Pequot War
New England Confederation
John Eliot and “Praying Towns”
King Philip’s War 1675-1676
King William’s War 1689
Pennsylvania
William Penn’s Indian policies
North and South Carolina
Enslaving of Native Americans
FRENCH/NATIVE AMERICAN
RELATIONS
New France
metis
coureurs de bois
Louis de Frontenac
Beaver Wars
Hurons v. Iroquois
Father Jacques Marquette
Louis Jolliet
Robert Cavelier de La Salle
Covenant Chain Alliance
Jesuits (Black Robes)
Quebec (1608)
Montreal (1642)
Iroquois Confederacy
Hurons
SPANISH/NATIVE AMERICAN
RELATIONS
Columbus
Taino People
Caribs
Treaty of Tordesillas (1493)
Aztecs
Montezuma
Hernan Cortes
Malinche
Hernan de Soto
introduction of the horse
Mestizos
encomienda system
Spanish mission system
Franciscan missionaries
Juan de Onate founds New Mexico
(1598)
Founding of Santa Fe (1610)
Black Legend
“gold, glory, and God”
Pope and the Pueblo Revolt (1680)
GENERAL INFORMATION
organization of Native American
societies
spread of smallpox and other diseases:
measles, typhus, influenza, and malaria
use of superior weapons