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3rd grade · Social Studies · Unit 8 of 10

Native Nations of Alabama

The Muscogee, Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw and more

What your child practices

The homelands, towns, governments and trade of Native nations in Alabama, each with its own ways, and the nations today, including the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, Alabama's federally recognized tribe. Written in the present tense for living nations.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: 3.8 · Indigenous cultures, governments and economies in the Southeast before European colonization, and nations in Alabama

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Native nations in Alabama include the Muscogee (Creek), Cherokee, Choctaw and Chickasaw, each with its own ways.
  2. Many were forced to move west, and many citizens of these nations live in Oklahoma today.
  3. The Poarch Band of Creek Indians is Alabama’s federally recognized tribe.

Example: What is Alabama’s federally recognized tribe today? It is a Creek community in southern Alabama. Its name is the Poarch Band of Creek Indians. Answer: the Poarch Band of Creek Indians

Native Nations of Alabama in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 8 of 10 in 3rd grade Social Studies, after Digging Up the Past and before Explorers & Encounters.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Is it correct to say all Native nations in Alabama had the same culture?

    • Yes, they had one language
    • Yes, they had one leader
    • Yes, they were all the same
    • No, each nation had its own language, leaders and ways

  2. Question 2

    Many Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Muscogee (Creek) citizens today live in…

    • only in Alabama museums
    • only in Europe
    • nowhere
    • Oklahoma, where their nations were forced to move, and in other states

  3. Question 3

    A leader of a Muscogee (Creek) town was called a…

    • governor
    • mayor of Mobile
    • mico
    • king of Spain

  4. Question 4

    Many Southeast nations built homes from…

    • wooden poles, river cane and clay plaster
    • stone castles
    • steel and glass
    • ice blocks

  5. Question 5

    The state of Alabama is named after the…

    • French queen
    • Spanish king
    • first governor
    • Alabama people

  6. Question 6

    The Cherokee Nation today has its capital in…

    • Boston, Massachusetts
    • Huntsville, Alabama
    • Montgomery, Alabama
    • Tahlequah, Oklahoma

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