Suggested Curriculum Integration

History / Wabanaki Cultural Systems & History

2007 MLR Content Standard E: History

Students draw on concepts and processes from history to develop historical perspective and understand issues of continuity and change in the community, Maine, the United States, and world.

Performance Indicator 2

Individual, Cultural, International, and Global Connections in History

Worldview

Broad Understandings, Guiding Questions, and Notes and Relevant Information for grades PK-12 (PDF)

Compare common and unique aspects of culture, values, and beliefs between Wabanaki and other culture groups (including one's own).

Understand that the inter-dependency of life is central to the Wabanaki worldview. This will be similar and different from other cultural worldviews.

Compare the Wabanaki culture through time with other culture groups (including one's own) and describe major turning points and events pertinent to the Wabanaki people. Describe how history has impacted/ impacts worldview using Wabanaki and other culture groups.

Be able to cite examples and analyze major issues, events and turning points in history that show a lack of understanding for Wabanaki worldview.

Cultural Continuity & Change

Broad Understandings, Guiding Questions, and Notes and Relevant Information for grades PK-12 (PDF)

Understand that all cultures (including one's own) have traditions and be able to give examples of Wabanaki specific traditions.

Describe traditions and contributions from different cultures that have been passed from generation to generation. Be able to give examples of Wabanaki specific contributions that have been passed from generation to generation.

Identify and compare Wabanaki culture over time with a non-European culture to show how cultures change as a result of both internal (e.g., innovation) and external (e.g., interaction) with peoples and/or environments.

Indentify and analyze major turning points, issues and/or events that have limited or expanded opportunities for the transmission of cultural practices over time.

Sovereignty

Broad Understandings, Guiding Questions, and Notes and Relevant Information for grades PK-12 (PDF)

Identify examples of sovereignty. For example, (economic) sovereignty allows the state of Maine to make a tax on goods and services; (geographic) sovereignty allows towns to build and maintain roads; (political) sovereignty allows the United States to create a military to defend its people; and (cultural) sovereignty allows Indigenous people in Maine to take and use natural resources like ash and sweet grass.

Identify examples of (especially political) sovereignty that show unity and diversity among Wabanaki communities, communities in Maine, the United States, and/or the world. For example, hunting and fishing are activities that unify many Mainers yet, for the Wabanaki, hunting and fishing are part of their cultural traditions and world view; Wabanaki communities have democratic processes (modern and traditional) that are both similar and different from democracy in Maine and the United States.

Analyze sovereignty (cultural, political or economic) using a variety of cultures including Wabanaki. Apply the concept of sovereignty using a current issue (for example, gaming/ casinos, water pollution, land use or economic development).

Injustice

Broad Understandings, Guiding Questions, and Notes and Relevant Information for grades PK-12 (PDF)

Understand that there are people who look, dress or act differently and that these people need to be treated fairly; understand that a group of people can act together to hurt individuals or other groups.

Describe specific ways in which the Wabanaki people suffered/suffer injustice because of differences with others. Describe specific stereotypes. Describe ways in which the student can combat stereotyping.

Discuss the effects of stereotyping on a culture or community, giving examples specific to the Wabanaki from history and Maine today. Explore in detail one historical or contemporary issue, comparing it to a similar issue from a different culture in American or world history.

Identify and analyze one specific example of injustice in contemporary Wabanaki economic or political history or an ongoing pattern of injustice.