WEEK 9 · INQUIRY MODULE
Week 9: Reservations, Allotment, Education, and Indigenous Persistence
How did assimilation policy try to reorganize Indigenous land and family life, and how did Native people survive and reshape it?
Dates: October 19–23, 2026
Focus
- Reservation policy and the Dawes Act
- Boarding schools and child removal
- Religious movements, resistance, Wounded Knee, and persistence
Before class
- Read: American Yawp, chapter 17 selected sections.
- Open and inspect the linked primary-source collection(s). Record one source, one context question, and one limitation.
- Scholarship lens: Katrina Phillips, Staging Indigeneity (2021), selected excerpt.
Primary-source portals
Tuesday/Thursday meeting plan
| Date | Status | Plan |
|---|
| Tuesday, October 20 | Class | Reservation policy, allotment, kinship, and settler governance. |
| Thursday, October 22 | Class | Boarding-school records, child removal, archival harm, Indigenous persistence, and data sovereignty. |
Reading & Reasoning Check 7 due Friday, October 23.
After class
Deliverable: Reading & Reasoning Check 7.
- I can answer the weekly inquiry with a contestable claim.
- I can name at least two pieces of evidence and explain their limits.
- I can identify an interpretation that my evidence supports, complicates, or challenges.