Go West Reading Project
Native Americans
What does it mean to be an American as a Native American During Westward Expansion?
"He said white men called the Indians savages because it made it easier to hate them, and hating them made it easier to drive them off or kill them and take their land. He said that as long as folks thought of the Shawnees as savages, they didn't have to think of them as people." (41-42) Weasel
Taking control
living
Driven away
The Trail of tears
works Cited:
Davidson, James West and Michael B. Stoff. America History of Our Nation. Boston: Pearson Education, Inc., 2006. Print.
DeFelice, Cynthia. Weasel. New York: Avon Books, Inc., 1990. Print
“Lewis and Clark Journal Entries.” Brain Waves Instruction. 2014. Web. <www.brainwavesinstruction.blogspot.com>
Murphy, Dallas. Read Aloud Plays Pioneers. New York: Scholastic Inc., 1998. Print.
“On the Plains in 1844.” The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. 2013. Web. <www.gilderlehrman.org>
“Rural America: The Westward Movement.” The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. 2013. Web. <www.gilderlehrman.org>
Zinn, Howard. A People’s History of the United States. New York: The New Press, 2003. Print.
Werner, Emmy E. Pioneer Children on the Journey West. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1995. Print.