Grades 7–9 — Peoples, Treaties and Practices at Depth

Indigenous History of the Americas — History Classes · Level band: Grades 7–9

DRAFT — CULTURAL REVIEW PENDING. These history classes are a publisher’s draft blend of the Collection’s Indigenous history research, standing on its own website. Indigenous cultural review precedes any public release of this strand. Readings carry the research labels unchanged: Documented Fact · Tradition — the people’s own account · Debated / Claim. This page carries no advertising.

English edition — the language editions of the history classes are outstanding and will follow the site’s translation pattern; none is fabricated here.

The peoples and their treaties, the practices at depth, and the wars introduced at the documentary level, with oral traditions labelled as Tradition beside the record.

The Arrival: How the Europeans First Reached the Americas

The opening chapter of the history. Grades 7–9 history class: the Norse in Newfoundland and the year 1021, the sagas from both shores, the claims that are not carried, the fishermen before the flags, Columbus sent to Asia in 1492, the crowns that followed, and the strangers foretold in the nations' own records.

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Peoples, Treaties and Writings

Grades 7–9 history class: the treaties particular to the Haudenosaunee, Cherokee, Anishinaabe and Lakota/Dakota, and their writings.

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The Horse and the Horse Nations

Grades 7–9 history class: the horse — its return, its spread, and how the horse nations trained them.

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Hunting Whales and Seals

Grades 7–9 history class: whaling and sealing — the umiak, the toggling harpoon, the sea hunt.

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Preserving the Harvest: Salmon, Seal, Moose and Deer

Grades 7–9 history class: preserving animal foods — salmon wind-dried and smoked, seal kept in oil and aged in caches, moose and deer as dry meat, pemmican and bone grease.

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Surviving Their Country

Grades 7–9 history class: survival techniques — shelter, fire, water, winter travel.

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The Snow House: How Igloos Were Made

Grades 7–9 history class: the engineering of the Inuit snow house.

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Hides: How They Were Used and Tanned

Grades 7–9 history class: hide work — brain tanning, smoke tanning, Inuit skin preparation.

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Their Songs, Drums and Flutes

Grades 7–9 history class: song traditions, and how drums and flutes were made.

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Their Wars (Documentary Introduction)

Grades 7–9 history class: the wars between the peoples, at the documentary level.

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The Code Talkers — The Languages That Won Battles

Grades 7–9 history class: the Choctaw Telephone Squad of 1918, the Navajo and Comanche code talkers of the Second World War — how the codes worked, the men's courage, and the recognition that came decades late.

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They Signed On — The Long Service

Grades 7–9 history class: Tecumseh and the battle that saved Montréal, Pegahmagabow, Tommy Prince — the long line of Indigenous soldiers who signed on without the vote.

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The Nations in the War Over Slavery

Grades 7–9 history class: the nations in the American Civil War — Opothleyahola's flight to Kansas, the Indian Home Guards, Ely Parker writing the surrender at Appomattox, and the last surrender of the war.

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