National Frontiers and Native Peoples
(How did mistaken views of  human evolution contribute toward social injustice within and between nations?)

QCC objectives for the 5th and 9th grades

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(5.9) Explains how the following groups lived and worked in the American West during the late 19th century

-miners and prospectors
-frontier settlers (ranchers and farmers), and
-railroad workers. (4)

Primary sources like diaries, newspapers, and artwork would be ideal materials.

(5.10) Describes changes impacting American Indian tribes in the American West during the last half of the 19th century

-encroachment of American Indian lands by non-American Indians
-relocations to reservations, and
-government policies. (5)

Compare similar relocation of non-industrial peoples in Hokkaido, Japan (the Ainu, an aboriginal) and the aborigine in Australia. Would this sort of policy be legal today? Why was it legal then?
Upper Secondary School classes (9-12.18)study encroachment, relocation, and government policies in foreign lands, Asia and Africa in particular. They also study the work of Cecil Rhodes. How did these actions contribute toward nationalist movements in other lands?

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Ainu Aboriginies in Hokkaido Japan in 1914


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