Grade3

How did the lives of disenfranchised Americans change as they fought for freedom and equality?
 * Essential Question:**

How did the lives of native Americans change with the arrival of the colonists? How did the use of the land change?
 * Guiding Questions:**

Explain how objects or artifacts of everyday life in the past tell us how ordinary people lived and how everyday life has changed. Draw on the services of the local historical society and local museums as needed.
 * Massachusetts History Framework Standards: 3.12**

Unit Goal
Students will apply the basic principles of historical thinking by researching and weighing primary information sources, and forming their own conclusions from those sources to interpret Native American life in the Boston area prior to and during colonial settlement.

Cynthia Blumsack, Robin Colarusso , Peg Gilleo Diana Ricciardone ,

Objectives
Students will learn about fish weirs, tools, and different ways to use the land.

Primary Source Documents and Artifacts
Spectacle Island Lesson 5 Boston Harbor Island artifacts. Fish Weir

1675, Sellers, New England, documents Prince William war, pictorial image of English and Indians fighting, shows location of tribes [|http://maps.bpl.org/details_10058/?mtid=60] 1677, Foster, New England, documents Prince William war, shows location of tribes, communities of frontier that were attacked [|http://maps.bpl.org/details_10060/?mtid=60] US Geological Atlas, National Atlas has reconstructed map showing distribution of Native American tribes in US (BPL has atlas, but digital copy image online at: [[[|http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/map_item.pl?data=/home/www/data/gmd//gmd370m/g3701m/g3701gm/gct00013/ca000097.jp2&style=setlmap&itemLink=r?ammem/gmd:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(g3701gm+gct00013))+@field(COLLID+setlmap))&title=The%20national%20atlas%20of%20the%20United%20States%20of%20America.%20] [Arch%20C.%20Gerlach,%20editor].+-+Indian%20tribes,%20Cultures%20%26%20Languages|[|http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/map_item.pl?data=/home/www/data/gmd//gmd370m/g3701m/g3701gm/gct00013/ca000097.jp2&style=setlmap&itemLink=r?ammem/gmd:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(g3701gm+gct00013))+@field(COLLID+setlmap))&title=The%20national%20atlas%20of%20the%20United%20States%20of%20America.%20] [Arch%20C.%20Gerlach,%20editor].+-+Indian%20tribes,%20Cultures%20%26%20Languages ]]
 * Maps of Native Americans in Massachusetts/New England:**

Indian Slave Advertisements
Boston News-Letter, America's Historical Newspapers > http://docs.newsbank.com/s/HistArchive/ahnpdoc/EANX/1056624E43F2A92F/0F20FECAAFCBE6ED > http://docs.newsbank.com/s/HistArchive/ahnpdoc/EANX/105661E7806C6BA5/0F20FECAAFCBE6ED > http://docs.newsbank.com/s/HistArchive/ahnpdoc/EANX/105661F7A99AF291/0F20FECAAFCBE6ED > http://docs.newsbank.com/s/HistArchive/ahnpdoc/EANX/1056625FEF278BA3/0F20FECAAFCBE6ED > http://docs.newsbank.com/s/HistArchive/ahnpdoc/EANX/1056631B984D5358/0F20FECAAFCBE6ED > http://docs.newsbank.com/s/HistArchive/ahnpdoc/EANX/1046DE89AAE210C3/0F20FECAAFCBE6ED
 * 1) Sirranam Indian manslave 14yo named Prince 1704, 11-06
 * 1) Carolina Indian 12yo boy 1707, 03-24
 * 1) Indian Map servant, John Elles 23yo 1707, 09-22
 * 1) Indian boy, 12yo Speaks English 1712, 09-01
 * 1) Ingenious likely Indian boy 13yo 1718, 03-03
 * 1) Indian women, 18 yo, New England 13yrs 1723, 03-04

Burial Town of Boston 1728, Indians and Negros
http://docs.newsbank.com/s/HistArchive/ahnpdoc/EANX/1056649EFAFD31C6/0F20FECAAFCBE6ED





John Campbell (First Postmaster and Indian slave owner ???)

Indian Dwellings
Indian House BPL call number E78.MA L56 - currently not available. Blumsack book request

Engravings depicting Indian life and their interaction with colonists in New England [BPL Rare Books call number: Ch .A .2 .30]

Mrs. Mary Rowlandson Captivity Narrative 1682 [BPL Rare Books call number: XH .15 .8]



Indian Children Bound Lyst August 10, 1676 [BPL Rare Books call number: Ms.X.Ch.A.2.36] note - could be a contemporary copy although docs look quite old





Ezra Stile's 1761 sketch, home of George Waukeets. Indians of New England, p. 52, BPL.

Indian runaway Advertisement, Tom - Rare Books document Ch.E.10.87  
 * Captain Richard Walker's purchase of Indian boy as perpetual servant**