https://native-history.sites.grinnell.edu/files/original/491b95b98652ad831567b6c312d87864.pdf 1199a4a4e1dabd121a8c9ae3692498ae Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Native History Unit A cohesive collection of Lesson Plans addressing a common theme or learning objectives. Themes Westward Expansion: Who and How We Are Still Here Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sand Creek Massacre Unit Plan Description An account of the resource This unit fits within the context of the Civil War and Westward Expansion/Indian Removal. It is intended to be used as a complete unit, as the lessons require an understanding of the Sand Creek Massacre. However, if pressed for time, the Background Information Sheet can be substituted for Lesson 1. On November 29, 1864, a group of approximately 675 Colorado cavalrymen led by Col. John Chivington attacked an encampment of approximately 800-900 Cheyenne and Arapaho people, many of whom were women and children, and unarmed. This massacre, as students will learn, is directly related to the Civil War, and as such this unit can fit within a larger unit on the Civil War. Moreover, through this unit, students will gain some perspective about Westward Expansion as seen through the eyes of the Cheyenne and Arapaho people. This unit will use the Sand Creek Massacre to develop understandings of how historians deal with conflicting narratives to create stories. By analyzing the conflicting accounts of the Sand Creek Massacre, students will learn how to interrogate sources, their authors, and their biases. In addition to these historical thinking skills, this unit provides an opportunity to understand the concept of historical memory and the role of national monuments. As the Sand Creek Massacre has largely been written out of most textbooks, this unit encourages students to think about the importance of remembering events. We remember the Civil War as a war of liberation that freed four million slaves,” historian Ari Kelman says. “But it also became a war of conquest to destroy and dispossess Native Americans.” Sand Creek, he adds, “is a bloody and mostly forgotten link” between the Civil War and the Plains Indian Wars that continued for 25 years after Appomattox. The massacre at Sand Creek accomplished the opposite of what Chivington and his allies had sought, as it united formerly divided tribes into a formidable obstacle to expansion rather than speed the removal of Indians and opening of the Plains to white settlers. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ben Binversie Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1864-11-29