Native American Removal
What Does it Mean to Remove a People?
Scholars studied the removal of Native Americans from lands east of the Mississippi in the 1800s. We first looked at the guiding question, “What Does it Mean to Remove a People?” We heard from members of the Native American community, looked at primary source documents, maps, and images. We collaborated to interpret the perspectives of nineteenth-century leaders and modern day historians and looked at several case studies including the Muskogee and Cherokee Nations.
Students got to choose one Native Nation to research more deeply and explore documents and other artifacts related to that nation’s removal. To close out the unit, students investigated how native cultures and traditions are continuing today. We heard from a guest speaker from the Choctaw Nation (Jessica Tucker, mother of CBK student Aviva Tucker) who shared her family's removal story. Finally, we analyzed how the Choctaw Nation is working with the Marvel Cinematic Universe to create a respectful depiction of their culture in the new series “Echo" which is now streaming on Hulu and Disney.
This is Choctaw
Marvel’s newest superhero is Maya Lopez! In this unit we study how the Choctaw Nation worked with Hulu and Disney to create a respectful representation of their nation for the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
