Native Nations Are Diverse and Present

Supplied materials

• Paper and pencil; drawing or spoken answers are welcome.
• Topic notes: Diversity: differences among Native nations and communities. Continuity: Native communities and identities continuing into the present. Change: a community adapting or experiencing developments over time. Stereotype: an unsupported claim treating diverse people as identical.
• Original exercise cards: Two named Native nations have different languages. / A Native nation operates institutions today. / A Native artist uses both inherited methods and new materials. / A fictional claim says every Native nation has the same language. / Native families maintain community relationships today. / A Native community develops a new educational project. / A fictional claim says Native people exist only in the past. / Distinct Native communities follow different cultural practices.

Learn the idea

Native peoples are not one culture or only a past chapter. Distinct nations have different languages, governments, histories and relationships with places. Native communities live today and have adapted through change. A historical object cannot represent every Native person or explain a whole nation’s present life.

Diversity: differences among Native nations and communities. Continuity: Native communities and identities continuing into the present. Change: a community adapting or experiencing developments over time. Stereotype: an unsupported claim treating diverse people as identical.

Look for differences between Native nations, communities living today, a change over time or a claim wrongly treating everyone alike. Ask an adult to read the notes and cards aloud. Point, draw or say your answer.

1. Ask an adult to read the four notes. Find the words Diversity, Continuity, Change, Stereotype.
2. Look for differences between Native nations, communities living today, a change over time or a claim wrongly treating everyone alike.
3. Read the worked answer. Then try the other cards and explain which words helped you choose.
4. Point to, draw or say two different examples: one for Diversity and one for Continuity. Explain how their clues differ.

Check your reasoning

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Take it further

New card: “Distinct Native communities follow different cultural practices.” Match it with a note, then point to or say the words that helped. Check: The card says: “Distinct Native communities follow different cultural practices.” That matches Diversity. Diversity is differences among Native nations and communities.

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