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CONTENTS - COLONIZATION UNIT

Samples of student work

Lesson Slide Deck

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Root Cause of Spanish Colonization

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Root Cause of Spanish Colonization

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Vocabulary

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Vocabulary

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Spanish Colonization impacting Indigenous people

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Where have you seen the impacts on the lives of the indigenous people in our world?

What does indigenous people mean to you?

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Question Formulation Technique (QFT)

  • Ask as many questions as you can.
  • Do not stop to discuss, judge, or answer.
  • Record exactly as stated.
  • Change statements into questions.

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Course Question: How did the settlement of different groups in California change the environment and the people?

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Focus Question

How do outside forces impact the lives of indigenous people?

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Historical Themes

  • Impact of Environment and Geography
  • Impact of Outsiders Coming in
  • Experience of the Oppressed

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Colonization

What does colonization mean?

How does impact indigenous people?

Is Colonization right or wrong? Why?

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Homelessness

Lesson Question: How does homelessness impact our society?

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Problem Statement

Step 1: So What?

Consequences / Symptoms

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  1. Consider the consequence of your problem.
  2. Write one consequence on a sticky note, and drag to a branch.
  3. As a team, ask and discuss “So What?”, and add that answer to another sticky and drag it onto the same branch.
  4. Continue, and try to fill 2-3 branches.

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Step 2: Why?

Root Causes

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  • Consider the IMMEDIATE causes of the problem
  • Write one cause on a sticky note, and drag to a root stem.
  • As a team, ask and discuss ”WHY” that cause occurred, and add that answer to another sticky and drag it onto the same root stem.
  • Continue, noting where causes diverge and converge.

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Directions Slide

Why? - Causes �in the roots

So What? - Consequences in the branches

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Colonization

Lesson Question: How do outside forces impact the lives of indigenous people?

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Problem Statement

Step 1: So What?

Consequences / Symptoms

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  • Consider the consequence of your problem.
  • Write one consequence on a sticky note, and drag to a branch.
  • As a team, ask and discuss “So What?”, and add that answer to another sticky and drag it onto the same branch.
  • Continue, and try to fill 2-3 branches.

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Step 2: Why?

Root Causes

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  • Consider the IMMEDIATE causes of the problem
  • Write one cause on a sticky note, and drag to a root stem.
  • As a team, ask and discuss ”WHY” that cause occurred, and add that answer to another sticky and drag it onto the same root stem.
  • Continue, noting where causes diverge and converge.

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Directions Slide

Why? - Causes �in the roots

So What? - Consequences in the branches

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Objectives

  • To understand how the Missions changed California’s population, economy, and impacted the environment, especially the lives of indigenous people.
  • Connect to current context of the North Dakota Access Pipeline and Mauna Kea focusing on how it impacts the lives of indigenous people.

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Vocabulary

  • Stakeholders
  • Indigenous people
  • Colonization
  • Conquistadors
  • Missions
  • Power
  • Solutionaries
  • Continuity

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  • Impact
  • Environment
  • Culture
  • Privilege
  • Oppression
  • Forces
  • Consequence

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Questions

  • Who benefited from this?
  • Who was most directly affected?
  • What were arguments for and against this?
  • What is left out of the narrative?
  • When was this narrative developed?
  • Why is this relevant us today?
  • Why was this allowed to happen?
  • How did this impact history of the time?
  • How does this affect now?
  • How can we learn from this?
  • What can we do to amplify the voices of indigenous people?

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Building of Missions

Focus Question: How did the building of the Missions begin?

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Building of Missions

Geography

  • Why did Spanish colonizers want to build the Missions in California?
  • Location of Missions
  • Displacement of indigenous people

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Junipero Serra

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Stakeholders

Stakeholders

  • Who are the Stakeholders within the building of the Missions and how did it impact the indigenous people?

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Current Events

Impact on indigenous land.

  • What similarities and differences do you see between Manua Kea in Hawaii and the Missions in California?
  • Manua Kea
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Student Action Planner

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Population Changes

Focus Question: How did the Mission impact the lives of indigenous people?

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Population Changes

Dislocation/Disease

  • How were the people displaced?
  • What diseases were brought to California?

Excessive Force

  • Colonization
  • Enslavement
  • How was excessive force used towards the Native Californians

Resistance

  • Protests
  • Movements
  • What resistance were used by the Native Californians?

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Power Over

Power Within

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Cultural and Religious Persecution

Focus Question: How were the Natives persecuted because of their religious and cultural practices in the building of the Missions?

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Cultural and Religious Persecution

Catholicism

  • Reasons for converting indigenous people
  • Means of converting indigenous people
  • How were the Native Californians converted to Catholicism?

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Colonization

  • Why did the settlers not let the indigenous people keep their cultural and religious heritage.
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Primary Sources Investigation

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Life in the Missions

Focus Question: What was life like in the Missions?

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Life in the Missions

Construction

  • How were the Missions being built?
  • What did it do for the land?

Daily Life

  • Colonization
  • Enslavement
  • What was the daily life before and after the Spaniards came to California?
  • What changes were influenced by the Spaniards?

Working Conditions

  • Protests
  • Movements
  • What were the working conditions of the Native Californians on the Missions?

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Impact on indigenous people and environment

Focus Question: How did the Missions impact the people and environment in California?

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Impact on Indigenous People and Environment

Power

  • Stakeholders
  • How have different stakeholders been impacted by colonization of the indigenous people?

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Environment

  • Pollution
  • Respect/Sacredness
  • How has the environment impacted the lives of Native Californians?

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Roots and Causes

Root and Cause Tree

  • What are the roots and causes on the impact of the Missions on indigenous people and the environment?

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Why?

Why?

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Power Flower

Locations of Power

  • What are different elements of power towards the indigenous people?
  • What are the dominant characteristics and traits of power?
  • Power Over/Power Within

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Room 1

(enter the problem statement)

Buying food offered by the school

“Othering” diverse cuisine

School board renewing contracts with current food distributors

School admin refuses to prioritize issue

Bring your own lunch

Students share concerns with admin

Start a school-wide petition drive

Posters with nutritional facts educate students on campus

Organize a school-wide lunch boycott

District hire nutrition consultants

How is power used to contribute to the PROBLEM

How is power used to contribute to the SOLUTION

PROBLEM

SYSTEMIC

GROUP / COMMUNITY

SOCIAL / CULTURAL

INDIVIDUALS

PROBLEM �STATEMENT:

Adapted from VeneKlasen & Miller (2002). A New Weave of Power, People & Politics. Oklahoma: World Neighbors.

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Group 1

Directions:

How is power used to contribute to the PROBLEM

How is power used to contribute to the SOLUTION

PROBLEM

SYSTEMIC

GROUP / COMMUNITY

SOCIAL / CULTURAL

INDIVIDUALS

PROBLEM �STATEMENT:

Adapted from VeneKlasen & Miller (2002). A New Weave of Power, People & Politics. Oklahoma: World Neighbors.

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Current Events

  • Background on North Dakota Access Pipeline and Mauna Kea
  • Indigenous groups affected
  • Why is it significant about the “pipeline” and the “telescope”?
  • Sacred
  • How can we empower the voices of indigenous people?

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Service Action Project- Advocate

  • What can we do to make a difference for indigenous people?
    • How can we be an advocate?
    • How can we amplify their voice?

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Resources

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