Source & Contextualize
Primary v Secondary
Did she save him?
Native Mascots
Powhatan/Wampanoag
100
Name 1 question we ask when we source a document or text?
Who created it?
What is the document?
When was it created?
Where was it created?
Why was it created?
100
Evidence created by the people who experienced the event at the time of the event
Primary Source
100
Pocahontas was the daughter of the Chief of what Native American tribe?
Powhatan
100
The name of the Cleveland Indians mascot since 1947, when a 17 year old submitted a drawing and won a contest to decide the mascot
Chief Wahoo
100
The name of the colony that the English established on Powhatan land, in what is today Virginia.
Jamestown
200
What English solider and colonizer wrote the following: "Arriving in Werowocomoco, the emperor welcomed me with good words and great platters of food. He promised me his friendship and my freedom within four days. . . .He asked me why we came and why we went further with our boat. . . . He promised to give me what I wanted and to feed us if we made him hatchets and copper. I promised to do this. And so, with all this kindness, he sent me home."
John Smith
200
A ________________________________ source is a document created by someone who did not experience firsthand the events she is writing about.
Secondary
200
John Smith, the English solider and colonizer, in his first book, A True Relation, said that the Powhatan chief treated him with _______________.
Kindness
(will also accept generosity, helpfulness, nice, and other similar descriptions)
200
The term for a widely held, but oversimplified generalization of a group of people.
stereotype
200
Name one interesting fact about the Powhatan Indians.
(any one of the following facts)
lived along the coast of Virginia for thousands of years
Chief of the Powhatans was Wahunsonacock.
The Powhatan tribes paid the chief deerskins, copper, and corn and he gave them protection.
They hunted, fished, a raised vegetables. Corn was the most important.
The family line was through the mother, so children did not take their father’s last name, like in England. Pocahontas was one of the Chief’s daughters.
300
True or False: This painting, painted in 2007, helps historians understand whether Pocahontas really saved John Smith in 1608.
False (because it was painted about 400 years later so the painter was not there to witness the event)
300
The following is what type of source: Primary or Secondary?
Primary
300
The name of the English soldier and colonizer who has told many stories from his travels about princesses in faraway lands, including Pocahontas, who save his life when he is about to be killed.
John Smith
300
The term for the document that 14,000 people signed to show that they wanted the Cleveland Indians baseball team to stop using the Chief Wahoo mascot. 
Petition
300
The term that means "to steal other people's lands and settle on them"
Colonize
400
True or False: Historians do not trust this painting to explain the truth of the relationship between the Wampanoag Indians and the English Pilgrims because it was painted 311 years after the "First Thanksgiving"
True
400
The term for the primary source that involves an interview with a person about their own life and experiences
Oral History
400
Many historians belief John Smith misunderstood a ________________ ceremony with the Powhatan Indians as an execution.
Adoption or Welcoming
400
This organization banned (prohibited the use of) Native mascots during college basketball postseason games.
NCAA
400
The English took land from the Powhatan Indians to create ______________, large areas of land for growing crops, like tobacco and sugar.
Plantation
500
The term for when you use the surrounding context and information to understand a text or source of information.
For example, we can say that John Smith was maybe trying to make money when he wrote about about Pocahontas supposedly saving him because he wrote it after Pocahontas got famous in England and died.
Contextualize
500
Name 1 key difference between primary and secondary sources
- primary sources are created by people who experienced the event, but secondary sources are created by people who did not experience the event
- primary sources are usually created at the time of the event, but secondary sources are usually created later
500
What is the title of the book John Smith wrote that contains the following quote:
"They brought me to Meronocomoco, where I saw Powhatan, their Emperor. Two great stones were brought before Powhatan. Then I was dragged by many hands, and they laid my head on the stones, ready to beat out my brains. Pocahontas, the King’s dearest daughter took my head in her arms and laid down her own upon it to save me from death. Then the Emperor said I should live."
A General History of Virginia
500
The name of the poster campaign series that was started at Ohio University to protest the stereotypes against Native people and other minority groups found in costumes and mascots.
"We're a culture, not a costume"
500
Many Wampanoag Indians in what is today Massachusetts died from _____________ brought by Europeans to the Americas. Those who were left were willing to ally with the English Pilgrims when they arrived in 1620 to protect themselves from other Indian tribes. So, the "first Thanksgiving" probably would not have happened without widespread death of Indians beforehand.
Disease