1. How do oppressed people survive?: Native American Indian Assimilation and Resistance By Joshua Fisher and Shoshana Good

3. Questions to think about: Were the Apaches assimilated or exterminated? In what ways? What were some benefits of reservation life for the Apaches? For the White settlers? What challenges did the Apaches face? Was it harder to assimilate or face extermination? Why?

4. PBS American Experience: We Shall Remain We Shall Remain Discussion

5. Concluding thought… “The Congress shall have Power … To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes” - U.S. Constitution: Article I, section 8 This is the most mention Indian Tribes get in the U.S. Constitution Did the government overstep its bounds by creating reservations? In what ways did the reservation system (which served to both assimilate and exterminate Native peoples) reflect economic interests of the times?