The First Americans - Study Sync

What is the meaning of "teach them truth about the First Americans" as it is used in Paragraph 1 of the text?

• A. Indigenous peoples should not be kept out of history books altogether.

• B. History books should ackowledge that the British were murderous and abusive to colonists and Indigenous peoples alike.

• C. Children should get a school holiday in remembrance of Wounded Knee Massacre.

• D. There should be more unbiased and thorough accounts of Indigenous history taught in schools.

How does Paragraph 6 add to the development of the text?

• A. Schools do not put enough focus on developing children's abilities as artists.

• B. The artistic and societal contributions of Indigenous peoples are just as noteworthy as their history with warfare.

• C. History books must acknowledge that white men destroyed centures of indigenous artistry.

• D. Americans are hypocritical to put indigenous art and crafts in their home, but not acknowledge where those items came from.

Choose the best sentence to add a descriptive detail to Paragraph 10.

• A. America First is an idea founded on a racist premise and it must be stopped.

• B. This is why we are declaring war on the city of Chicago.

• C. We do not ask that you discard your own history, rather that you reconsider how you see ours.

• D. Custer is certainly not seen as hero in the Indian community.

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What do the following lines from Paragraph 9 reveal?

Tell your children of the friendly acts of Indians to the white people who first settled here. Tell them of our leaders and heroes and their deeds. Tell them of Indians such as Black Partridge, Shabbona and others who many times saved the people of Chicago at great danger to themselves. Put in your history books the Indian’s part in the World War. Tell how the Indian fought for a country of which he was not a citizen, for a flag to which he had no claim, and for a people that have treated him unjustly.

• A. White men were the first to attack Indigenous peoples upon their arrival in America.

• B. Indigenous history could also be better integrated into areas of American history that are already taught.

• C. There are already many positive depictions of Indigenous peoples in history books to build upon.

• D. American would not have been victorious in World War 1 without the contributions of Indigenous peoples.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is a central idea of the excerpt?

• A. Some images of Indigenous peoples are unfair and far from reality of Indigenous life.

• B. Most American children have no idea that Indians live on reservations.

• C. Indians won more battles against white men than they lost.

• D. Most of the wars fought between white men and Indigenous peoples were conflicts over indigenous artistic creations.

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CCSS.RL.7.2

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CCSS.RL.8.2

Which statement from the text most strongly supports your answer to Question 5?

• A. "White men penned our people on reservations, then took away the reservations."

• B. "You tell all white men 'America First.'"

• C. "Put in every school Indian blankets, baskets, pottery."

• D. "White men called Indian thieves--and yet we lived in frail skin lodges and needed no locks or iron bars."

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Which of the following inferences is best supported by the text?

• A. Indigenous peoples believe there should be less teaching of history and more time in school spent creating usable goods.

• B. There is hypocrisy in the uncritical way history books depict the story of America.

• C. White men only killed Indigenous peoples when Indigenous peoples attempted to take back their lands.

• D. Indigenous peoples do not celebrate singular heroes the same way Americans do.

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