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Tribal Perspectives on American History in the Northwest – Teacher Guide
Tribal Perspectives–Northwest satises the following Social Studies Standards for Montana OPI
for detailed information, please visit: www.opi.state.mt.us/Accred/cstandards.htm
Inquiry
Learning
Benchmark 12.2 - Apply criteria to evaluate information (ie: origin, authority, accuracy, bias, and distortion of
information and ideas). EU 1-7
Civic
Responsibilities
Geography
Effects of Time
and Change
Economics
Cultural
Diversity
Benchmark 12.4 - Evaluate how the unique characteristics of Montana/American Indian tribes and other cultural
groups have contributed to Montana history and contemporary life. EU 1-7
Benchmark 12.4 - Compare and contrast how values and beliefs inuence economic decisions in different
economic systems, including American Indians (ie: tribal vs. capital economics) EU 4
Benchmark 12.3 - Assess the major impacts of
human modications on the environment and
compare and contrast use of lands by different
people. EU 1,4,5
Benchmark 12.4 - Analyze how human
settlement patterns and cultural borders
create cooperation and conict which
inuence the division and control of the
Earth. EU 4,5,7
Benchmark 12.7 - Describe and
compare how people create places that
reect culture, human needs, govt policy,
history, and current values and ideas as
they design and build. EU 1,2,5,6
Benchmark 12.6 - Analyze and
evaluate conditions, actions and
motivations that contribute to conict
and cooperation within and among
groups and nations, including tribal
nations (ie: discrimination) EU 2
Benchmark 12.6 - Identify
origination of stereotypes,
and connect these to conict/
cooperation within and
among groups and nations.
EU 2-5
Benchmark 12.4 - Relate
concept of tribal sovereignty
to the unique powers of tribal
goverments as they interact
with local, state, and federal
governments. EU 5,7
Benchmark 12.5a - Analyze the
effectiveness of various systems
of government to protect the
rights and needs of citizens and
balance competing conceptions
of a just society. EU 1,4,7
Benchmark 12.1 - Select and
analyze documents, primary
and secondary sources (ie:
treaties, oral histories, court
decisions, current events,
tribal publications) that have
inuenced the legal, pollitical,
and constitutional heritage of
Montana Indians. EU 4-7
Benchmark 12.2
Interpret how
selected cultures,
historical events,
periods, and
patterns of change
inuence each
other. EU 5
Benchmark 12.6 - Investigate,
interpret, and analyze the impact of
multiple historical and contemporary
viewpoints, concerning events within
and across cultures, major world
religions, and political systems, esp.
as they relate to American Indian
cultures (ie: assimilation, values,
beliefs, conicts) EU 1-7
Benchmark 12.7 - Analyze and
illustrate the major issues concerning
history, culture, tribal sovereignty, and
current status of the Montana tribes
and bands and American Indians
(ie: gambling, artifacts, repatriation,
natural resources, language,
jurisdiction) EU 1-7