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Primary
Source of the Month
"William Penn's Treaty with the Indians
. . .," engraved by John Hall after a
painting by Benjamin West, London, England,
1775. From the collections of the Colonial
Williamsburg Foundation.
CONTENTS
"The
Clash of Cultures," "English Encounters,
and "Native American and European Contests
for Empire"
Primary
Source of the Month
Teaching
Strategy
Colonial Williamsburg Teaching Resources
Teaching News
Quotation of the Month
The
next
Electronic Field Trip is
Emissaries of Peace
November 8, 2007
2007-2008 Teaching
Resources Catalog
2007–2008 Electronic Field
Trip Scholarships
Games,
activities, and resources about life
in colonial America
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TOP STORIES
"The
Clash of Cultures," "English Encounters,"
and "Native American and European Contests
for Empire"
These
readings come from the Native Americans
resource guide at Digital History,
a Web site designed and developed to support
the teaching of American History in K–12
schools and colleges.
"Relations
between Indians and Europeans during the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ran
the spectrum from cooperation and accommodation
to bitter conflict. Where the number of
colonists was fewest, relationships were
based on trade, and the Indians viewed
the Europeans as potential allies, relations
were friendliest. Where European numbers
were greatest and their primary objective
was Indian land or labor, relations were
least friendly. By the early eighteenth
century, however, it was already clear
that friendly relations and cooperation
would be the exception . . ."
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More
Primary
Source of the Month:
Print: "William Penn's Treaty with
the Indians . . ."
This
hand-colored 1775 engraving by John Hall
was based on Benjamin West's famous painting
of William Penn's reported 1682 treaty
with the Lenni Lenape, or Delaware Indians,
as English colonists called them. Tradition
holds that the treaty was signed under
an elm tree at Shackamaxon, a Delaware
Indian town once located near present-day
Kensington, Pennsylvania.
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More
Teaching
Strategy:
Native American Diplomacy
Native
people inhabited North America long before
Europeans arrived. The goals of Native
people and of European explorers and settlers
were in conflict. To live in peace required
a delicate balance of negotiation and
cooperation. Diplomacy was essential to
both Native peoples and to European-Americans
in charting the future success of their
cultures.
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Colonial
Williamsburg Teaching Resources for Your
Classroom
Colonial
Williamsburg offers a variety of quality
instructional materials dealing with 18th-century
life, including:
- Hands-On History: American Indian
Bandolier Bag (object kit)
- Duel in the Wilderness (book)
- Discovering the Past Through Archaeology
(classroom simulation kit)
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More
Teaching
News
Limited
Time Offer!—20% off the retail
price of four selected Colonial Williamsburg
Teaching Resources if ordered by December
31, 2007!
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Quotation
of the Month
"We
have sold you a great tract of land already;
but it is not enough! We sold it to you
for the benefit of your children, to farm
and to live upon. We now have but little
left; and we shall want it for ourselves.
We know not how long we may live, and we
wish to have some lands for our children
to hunt upon. You are gradually taking away
our hunting grounds. Your children are driving
us before them. We are growing uneasy. What
lands you have you may retain forever; but
we shall sell no more."
—Potawatomi
Chief Metea, 1821
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Volume
6, Issue 3
Historic Triangle