Spear-fishing and Rights
Lesson #: 18
Grade: 4th
Subject Area: Social Studies
Context
Materials
Introduction/Investment
Write the word, spear fishing on the board and ask for responses from the students. Record the responses on the board and see what they know or assume.
Then ask them to respond to whether or not this would be important to the Ojibwe.
Content
The content for this lesson depends on the specificity:
Whole-Class Activity
Give each group of student the copy of the spearfishing pamphlet from Mazina’igan. Split the reading up depending on the number of groups and have them report back out about what they know.
Now ask the students if they understand why it is important and what else they may have learned. Some things that should come up deal with it being something they do and have done
Now, as the teacher, emphasize that this is not something that the Ojibwe were able to do. In reality they had to fight very hard to get this piece enacted and allowed to spearfish
Show pictures of the protests and ask them what they think ago. This was their right to spearfish on their lands. Because the state and the state government said no, the Ojibwe took it all the way to the Supreme Court. Ended up winning rights to control all Indian fishing on lands ever ceded to the government.
As another probing questions, ask them why the Ojibwe would be fighting for this land and this right to fish in these certain areas.
Practice
Have the students watch the video Lighting the 7th Fire.
Have the students show their understanding by writing about what it felt like to lose that right.
Assessment
For assessment, have this based on the informal walking around during the writing and also the content of the writing sample about spear fishing.
Grade: 4th
Subject Area: Social Studies
Context
Materials
Introduction/Investment
Write the word, spear fishing on the board and ask for responses from the students. Record the responses on the board and see what they know or assume.
Then ask them to respond to whether or not this would be important to the Ojibwe.
Content
The content for this lesson depends on the specificity:
- Battle over spear fishing began in 1974
- Two brothers were arrested for ice fishing on lands that used to be part of the Ojibwe nation but had been ceded to the US government.
- Based on the language of the treaties, the Ojibwe were allowed to be here and do this because of these treaties.
- For almost 20 years, the Ojibwe were fighting in some way or another to get this passed and to be allowed to hunt and fish wherever they used to
- Once the Ojibwe, they set up GLIFWC to control all Indigenous people fishing.
Whole-Class Activity
Give each group of student the copy of the spearfishing pamphlet from Mazina’igan. Split the reading up depending on the number of groups and have them report back out about what they know.
Now ask the students if they understand why it is important and what else they may have learned. Some things that should come up deal with it being something they do and have done
Now, as the teacher, emphasize that this is not something that the Ojibwe were able to do. In reality they had to fight very hard to get this piece enacted and allowed to spearfish
Show pictures of the protests and ask them what they think ago. This was their right to spearfish on their lands. Because the state and the state government said no, the Ojibwe took it all the way to the Supreme Court. Ended up winning rights to control all Indian fishing on lands ever ceded to the government.
As another probing questions, ask them why the Ojibwe would be fighting for this land and this right to fish in these certain areas.
- Think about the simulation in which all the kids except the rich or white settlers were on one desk.
- What did that feel like?
- Make sure that the students understand the idea that this is important to their survival
Practice
Have the students watch the video Lighting the 7th Fire.
Have the students show their understanding by writing about what it felt like to lose that right.
Assessment
For assessment, have this based on the informal walking around during the writing and also the content of the writing sample about spear fishing.
