Native Americans and WWIIBUT before that...Main Idea work on the Japanese Internment Camps handout

Step One: Get into groups of 3 at one of the Main

Idea Pyramid posters and take out your handout on Japanese Internment

As a group review over the material you read for homework

There is no written Thesis, but what do you think our thesis for this article would be?

Step Two: Everyone has the SAME Main Ideas in

the same order. Teacher will handout out the various

Supporting Details that are mixed up to each group.

As a group lay the SD’s out and decide what Main Idea they fall under, using the ticky-tacky stuff.

You will have about 10-15 minutes to decide where they go.

Step Three: The teacher will tell everyone to move

to the next Poster. As a group go there and look at what other people came up with.

Does it look like yours? After about 2 minutes the teacher will

signal again, everyone must go to a different poster and see the info

Step Four: Go back to your original poster/group As a group look over your SD’s and

decide if you want to keep them or move them (4 minutes)

Teacher will give each group a sticky note and as a group write an analysis Connect the three Main Ideas Use Historical Context to help explain

evidence What insight did the article give you on

the topic?

Step Five: Put your group members names on it

and put them on MS. Dalle-Valle’s desk. Class discussion on the article… Now move onto notes on Native

Americans in WWII… (Fill out your chart on WWII impacts on

Society)

WWII Impacts on Society Chart

African Americans

Women Mexican Americans

Native Americans

Japanese Americans

Pearl Harbor Attack It seemed to awaken the “warrior” spirit

in many Native Americans: thousands went into the armed forces or worked in war production

40% more Native Americans voluntarily enlisted than had been drafted

Ready for War The Iroqouis, Navajo and other tribes

were eager to go and many stood for hours to sign their draft cards while others carried their own rifles.

Nearly all of the able-bodied Chippewas at Grand Portage Reservation enlisted.1942,

1942, nearly 99% of all eligible NA had registered for the draft.

NA Women Several hundred Native American

women served in the WACS (Women’s Army Corps), WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service) and Army Nurse Corps.

“Chiefs” It was a huge show of loyalty to fight the

“white man’s war” and overcome many years of disappointment and resentment.

Many recruits were “affectionately” called Chiefs

Native Americans understood the concept of defending your land and fighting for liberty, life, and the pursuit of happiness.

Native American Language Nazi spies posing as anthropologists

visited reservations to subvert some NA tribes and learn their language

Nazi agitators tried to persuade NA’s not to sign up for the draft.

Navajo Language was an important key to victory in the Pacific. The Japanese could never crack the code. The Comanche also had code talkers.

Patriotism NA tribes saw the Axis powers as a

threat Chippewa, Iroquois, and Sioux declared

war on the Axis They bought Victory Bonds, rationed

and migrated out of Reservations to work in the War Industries jobs (about 40,000 left)

Women took over traditional male duties on the reservation