National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
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The National Museum of the American Indian, part of the Smithsonian Institution, showcases exhibitions at its locations in Washington, D.C. and New York City, and makes digital exhibits available on its website. The museum’s exhibitions use art, artifacts, photographs, and more to advance knowledge and understanding of the Native cultures of the Western hemisphere.
The National Museum of the American Indian has strengthened our collections of educational materials related to Native American cultures by allowing LEARN NC to republish the guide “We Have a Story to Tell: Native Peoples of the Chesapeake Region.”
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- Chesapeake natives: Three major chiefdoms
- In We have a story to tell: Native peoples of the Chesapeake region, page 2.1
- When you look at the pieces of our people scattered about, it doesn't look like we have much. But put together, we have a lot. We have a story to tell. — Tina Pierce Fragoso (Nanticoke-Lenni Lenape), Philadelphia Inquirer, March...
- Format: article
- Colonial Indian-White relations
- In We have a story to tell: Native peoples of the Chesapeake region, page 2.2
- In some ways, the Jamestown colony served as the beginning of the United States of America. It was also the place where some of the first policies towards Native Americans were enacted. Many of the difficulties experienced by Chesapeake Natives were mirrored...
- Format: article
- Contemporary challenges and responses
- In We have a story to tell: Native peoples of the Chesapeake region, page 2.5
- Protecting land and resources is an important concern of the tribes, including the preservation of sacred sites. For Native Americans, sacred sites are places where important spiritual or historical events have occurred. They might be ancestral burial grounds...
- Format: article
- Issue 1: Primary resources
- In We have a story to tell: Native peoples of the Chesapeake region, page 3.3
- XVI. That every Indian King and Queen in the month of March every yeare with some of theire great men tender their obedience to the R’t Honourable his Majesties Govern’r at the place of his residence, wherever it shall be, and then and there...
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- Issue 1: The effects of treaty making
- In We have a story to tell: Native peoples of the Chesapeake region, page 3.2
- Reading questions What were the factors that made treaty negotiations difficult? Why are treaties with England still relevant to Chesapeake region tribes today? Who benefited the most during the seventeenth century from...
- Format: article
- Issue 2: Primary resources
- In We have a story to tell: Native peoples of the Chesapeake region, page 3.5
- 1943 letter from Virginia state official Walter Plecker to voting registrars, health care workers, school superintendents, and clerks of the court. For a larger version, click on this link: Study question for primary...
- Format: letter/primary source
- Issue 2: The denial of civil rights
- In We have a story to tell: Native peoples of the Chesapeake region, page 3.4
- Reading questions: How did Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act of 1924 affect the civil rights of Native Americans? How did the fight against civil injustices help unite the Native tribes of the Chesapeake region? The late nineteenth...
- Format: article
- Issue 3: Primary resources
- In We have a story to tell: Native peoples of the Chesapeake region, page 3.7
- On July 12, 2006, the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) hosted a press conference and departure ceremony for an official delegation of Virginia Native Americans, who were traveling by invitation to England as part of the commemoration of the 400th...
- Format: article
- Issue 3: The importance of legal recognition
- In We have a story to tell: Native peoples of the Chesapeake region, page 3.6
- Reading questions: Why is federal recognition important to Native American tribes? What is it about the histories of the Powhatan, Nanticoke, and Piscataway tribes that make it difficult for them to achieve federal recognition? Consider...
- Format: article
- Lesson plan
- In We have a story to tell: Native peoples of the Chesapeake region, page 1.2
- This lesson for grades 9–12 primarily covers the period from the early 1600s to the present. Students explore how colonial settlement and the establishment of the United States affected the Native Americans of the Chesapeake region, especially the Powhatan,...
- Format: lesson plan
- Lesson questions
- In We have a story to tell: Native peoples of the Chesapeake region, page 1.3
- Warm-up Who were the Native Americans in the Chesapeake region prior to European arrival in the Western Hemisphere? What was life like for them before 1600? What happened to them during the colonial period? What...
- Format: lesson plan
- Map 1: Chesapeake Native peoples, circa 1610
- In We have a story to tell: Native peoples of the Chesapeake region, page 3.8
- Format: article
- Map 2: Chesapeake Native communities today
- In We have a story to tell: Native peoples of the Chesapeake region, page 3.9
- In We have a story to tell: Native peoples of the Chesapeake region, page 3.9
- Format: article
- Native peoples of the Chesapeake region
- In Two worlds: Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 2.9
- The Chesapeake Bay has been home to Native Americans for over 10,000 years. Throughout their histories — even to the present day — these societies have adapted to difficult circumstances and unforeseen changes. Chesapeake natives have faced wars, epidemic diseases, loss of land, and treaty violations.
- Format: article
- Native responses to the ongoing challenges of colonialism
- In We have a story to tell: Native peoples of the Chesapeake region, page 2.3
- The pressures on Chesapeake Native peoples mounted as the populations of the colonies and later the United States grew. From the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries, the communities were forced to devise a number of strategies to survive and to keep their Native identities, histories, and cultures alive.
- Format: article
- Native responses to the ongoing challenges of colonialism (continued)
- In We have a story to tell: Native peoples of the Chesapeake region, page 2.4
- Surviving Poverty Men digging for clay for pottery making, Pamunkey Reservation, Virginia, 1918. When the Chesapeake tribes lost their lands, they also lost much of their access to...
- Format: article
- Overview
- In We have a story to tell: Native peoples of the Chesapeake region, page 1.1
- In We have a story to tell: Native peoples of the Chesapeake region, page 1.1
- The Native peoples of the Chesapeake Bay region were among the first in the Western Hemisphere to encounter European explorers and colonists. Their stories, however, have usually been told by others, and usually only when their history helps to shed light...
- Format: article
- Small group project and class presentation
- In We have a story to tell: Native peoples of the Chesapeake region, page 3.1
- Issues of survival for Native communities of the Chesapeake region The following activity will help you explore important issues that affect the survival of Chesapeake Native American communities today. Your teacher will divide your class...
- Format: lesson plan
