Can There Ever Really Be Justice on Stolen Land?
Episode
This module explores the complex history of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and what many historians refer to as "the Trail of Tears" or the "forced march". Through this episode and the follow up curriculum, examine the intersections between the removal of indigenous nations from their ancestral homelands, pressure for those nations to assimilate, enslaved labor, land, and the demand for cotton.
Curriculum Materials
Standards & Frameworks
These documents map the activites in this module to numerous national and state standards and frameworks.
Basic Lessons
These activities consist of viewing the episode and responding to the discussion prompts embedded in the episode.
The Conversation Continues
This activity consists of additional discussion prompts and resources that delve into the issues raised in the episode.
Timelining to Understand
These activities ask students to place the events discussed in the video in a larger historical context by working with a timeline of US history.
Opening Up the Textbook
These activities ask students to consider the implications of the dominant narrative by seeing how the story in the episode is (or isn’t) talked about in their textbooks.
Document Analysis
These activities pose questions related to one of the stories presented in the episode by providing students with curated, sometimes modified, documents with headnotes and guiding questions.
Deep Dive Read
These activities ask students to closely read, annotate, and interpret complex primary texts mentioned in the episode.
Connections, Echoes, and Projections
These activities extend the themes of the story presented in the episode to other events and into the future. These resources and activities help students see how we can use an understanding of the past to make sense of more recent events and imagine a different future.