Indians in the Curriculum:
20 Handouts for Middle and High School
History and Social Studies
By Kerry Dunne

Handout 3 Activities: Report to President Washington, 1789

Background:

By Secretary of War Henry Knox, June 15, 1789, quoted in Ronald N. Satz, “Chippewa Treaty Rights: The Reserved Rights of Wisconsin’s Chippewa Indians in Historical Perspective,” Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, 1991, p. 5, and reprinted in Classroom Activities on Chippewa Treaty Rights, compiled by Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, 1991.

Study and Discuss:

1.     What was happening in United States when Knox wrote this letter to George Washington?

2.     What does Knox see as the two options the United States has in dealing with First Nations to   obtain their lands?

3.     Which option does Knox recommend? Why?

4.     What does Knox foresee in the future for Native Americans? Why? Was he right?

Resources 3: Report to President Washington, 1789