Essential Goals for the Infused Unit

Social Studies:

• Understand there are 11 different AI nations in Wisconsin
  
• Understand the cultures of each of these nations is distinct and different
  
• Cultures are changing as time progresses
  
• Understand the changes that have occurred in the past 600+ years
  
• Meeting Europeans
  
• Changes to land control
  
• Changes to culture
  
• Define sovereignty and it’s sources
  
• How these nations are sovereign, what this means, etc.
  

Science:

• Understand the impact of nature and American Indians (Ho-Chunk)
  
• Affective impact
  
• Mounds
  
• Understand specifics of native agriculture (Menominee)
  
• Wild Rice
  
• Maple Syrup
  
• Fishing and Water cycle
  
• Ojibwe
  
• GLITC (Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council)
  
• GLIFWC (Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission)
  

Language Arts:

• Understand the ways to tell stories
  
• Understand that each story has a meaning
  
• “As valid as written histories”
  
• Understand the meanings behind stories and connect them to other parts of the unit
  
• This would be the tie in to science
  
• Understand the different ways to start stories that relate to phenomenon
  
• Look at different creation stories
  

Music

• Understand the different styles/types of music depending on the situation
  
• Understand the importance of music for each given situation
  

Art

• Understand the different styles and symbols of art created by the 11 Nations
  
• Understand the cultural importance of the objects created
  

Culture

• Begin to analyze the impact that mainstream culture has had on American Indian culture