Termination, Relocation, & PL280

Process for the First Task (level 1):  Should the Klamath be Terminated?

Prepare for your debate by reading the appropriate article. 

Group 1 - Terminate the Klamath                                                          http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~nathan-wilson/watkins.pdf

Group 2 - Opposed to Termination http://www.klamathtribes.org/information/background/termination.html

Process for Second Task (level 2): Federal Relocation program

·         visit the “RWS Series: Concrete Indians – Portraits of the Urban Indian Experience” at http://www.redworks.ca/?page_id=1841

·         Write “Relocation & the Urban Indian Experience” at the top of an index card.

·         Describe the Relocation program and the urban Indian experience based off classroom discussion and the RWS Series.

·      The cards will be collected before the end of class.  

·         Listen to “PRX Piece: Urban Indian Experience: Episode 2 – A Place to Call Home”

      http://www.prx.org/pieces/1147#

·         As you listen answer multiple choice questions using the QUIZ TAB on the webquest.

• After listening to the PRX Piece, you will answer several short answer questions about what you heard.(Available in Resources)
• Use the backside of your index card from the previous day to add two reasons why the federal Relocation program was implemented

Day 1-2

The Klamath were terminated as a tribe in the 1950s, and they were no longer eligible for federal housing,   social services, medical program, economic development, or educational assistance. 

• View the “Klamath Termination Profile – Before and After” in the Resources below, which summarizes the overall welfare of the Klamath before and after Termination.
• Review the steps a tribe must take to gain federal recognition using the graphic organizer "Federal Recognition of Indian Nations."
• Complete the graphic organizer "Federal Recognition of Indian Nations" by visiting the sites appropriate for your group.

·         Duwamish:

• visit their website H http://www.duwamishtribe.org/oralhistory.html.
• read “The Tribe that would Not Die” at HUhttp://www.seattlemet.com/issues/current-issue/articles/0309-fea-duwamish/1/?print=1UH, and 
•  listen to the audio clip “PRX Urban Indian Experience Episode 1 – The Duwamish: Seattle’s landless tribe” at the website HUhttp://www.prx.org/pieces/1145UH.

·        Klamath -attempts for recognition at their website HUhttp://www.klamathtribes.org/UH

• OPTIONAL:  Sammish’s attempts for recognition at HUhttp://www.samishtribe.nsn.us/UH
• OPTIONAL: Cowlitz’s attempts for recognition at HUhttp://www.cowlitz.org/UH 
•  OPTIONAL: Chinook’s attempts for recognition at HUhttp://www.chinooknation.org/UH
• OPTIONAL:Jamestown Sklallam’s attempts for recognition at http://www.jamestowntribe.org/jstweb_2007/index1024.htm

Day 3

• Analyze how the tribe you're studying met or did not meet the qualifications as a tribe for recognition using the appropriate resources.
• Create a class chart for recognition telling how your tribe met or did not meet the qualification for federal recognition as a tribe.
• Read “Tribes Forced to Prove Existence” available at HUhttp://www.manataka.org/page240.htmlUH                                                                                              You may also read                                                     
• o   “Uncertainties Abound for Future Gaming Tribes” and                                                    
• o   “US Pledges Overhaul of Federal Tribal Recognition System“ available in the resources section below.

Day 4

You will participate in a class discussion about the federal tribal Recognition System today!

Day 5