Social Studies: Indigenous People
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All people exist within cultures, or the way of life of a group of people. All human communities have cultural attributes. These attributes change over time in response to changes in the world around them. Indigenous cultures in North and South America demonstrate these attributes.
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Standard II: Students will understand cultural factors that shape a community.
Objective 1: Evaluate key factors that determine how a community develops.
- Identify the elements of culture (e.g. language, religion, customs, artistic expression, systems of exchange).
- Describe how stories, folktales, music, and artistic creations serve as expressions of culture.
- Compare elements of the local community with communities from different parts of the world (e.g. industry, economic specialization).
- Identify and explain the interrelationship of the environment (e.g. location, natural resources, and climate) and community development (e.g. food, shelter, clothing, industries, markets, recreation, and artistic creations).
- Examine changes in communities that can or have occurred when two or more cultures interact.
- Explain changes within communities caused by human inventions (e.g. steel plow, internal combustion engine, television, and computer).
Objective 2: Explain how selected indigenous cultures of the Americas have changed over time.
- Describe and compare early indigenous people of the Americas (e.g. Eastern Woodlands, Plains, Great Basin, Southwestern, Arctic, Incan, Aztec, and Mayan).
- Analyze how these cultures changed with the arrival of people from Europe, and how the cultures of the Europeans changed.
- Identify how indigenous people maintain cultural traditions today.