Tecumseh's Vision

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A website with a thorough biography of Tecumseh’s life.

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Battling for Liberty: Tecumseh’s and Patrick Henry’s Language of Resistance Grades 6-8
Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death!" has become such a part of American culture that students may not know where the phrase came from, though many will have heard it before. Yet how many know Tecumseh's equally persuasive "Sell a country? Why not sell the air?"

This lesson extends the study of Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" speech to demonstrate the ways Native Americans also resisted oppression through rhetoric. By examining two speeches by Chief Tecumseh of the Shawnee alongside Henry's speech, students develop a new respect for the Native Americans' politically effective and poetic use of language.

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Native Americans: Contact and Conflict
Discovery Education streaming Video*

This 27 minute video is broken into 9 shorter segments for Grades 6 – 8.

Chronicles the brutal and violent history of Native American and European conflict in the United States. Beginning with Columbus's explorations and the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors, the program examines how Europeans used force, coersion, and fear to take land and natural resources from tribes in the Northeast, Southwest, and Great Plains. Modern scholars emphasize the impact of forced migration on many Native American cultures, including the Navajo, Sioux, and Cherokee.

Arizona Academic Standard Connection See connection 8

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Arizona State Academic Standards Connection

Grade 5   • Social Studies Strand 1 – American History   - Concept 3: Exploration and Colonization   o PO 1 - Recognize that Native American tribes resided throughout North America before the period of European exploration and colonization. o PO 7 - Describe interactions (e.g., agricultural and cultural exchanges, alliances, conflicts) between Native Americans and European settlers. Back to top

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