Who Lived In The Shahala MS Boundary Area Before Us?

Who Lived In The Shahala MS
Boundary Area Before Us?
Introduction of Washington
Territory
• These lessons will follow the history and lives of
the Native Americans, especially Chinook Tribe.
• CBA centers around two cultural groups and
their impact on each other. Previous lessons
teach who the Chinook are and how they lived
before white settlers.
• Read the article from 1878 on Washington
Territory’s riches (note “not for loafers”). What
was the writer’s purpose?
East Vancouver in 1888
• Have students look at Shahala’s boundary
map and compare to 1888 map of area.
Can they find where Shahala is located on
1888 map? The street names where
Shahala is located is not on the 1888 map.
Students will have to identify land features.
• Identify the family names on 1888 land
claim map.
Linking the Past
• Copy blank Federal Census forms from 1850 and 1870.
Students will fill in information about the families they
identified on 1888 map from past census information.
• Students will fill in the families information for the 1850
and 1870 census. Discuss the questions on the census.
Why did the Federal government want this information?
• Compare the two decades of family life and analyze
what life may have been like for those families. What
changes occurred within the two decades? What were
their occupations?
• Further insight: May compare lives of the people who
lived here before us to students’ lives now.
Features of Federal Census
• 1850 Federal Census
form has three pages
easily classified under
Vancouver and
Fisher’s Landing.
• Last name, first
name, age, sex,
occupation and place
of birth.
• 1870 Federal Census
form has five pages
with no clearly
defined area.
• Look for names that
are also on 1850
census.
• Last name, first
name, age, sex, race,
occupation and place
of birth.
Extra Information
• Obituaries, short history information on some of
the families in 1888.
• Two pictures of farmhomes in the 1880’s.
• Students can identify where the houses were
located and take pictures of what is there now as
a ‘then and now’ picture piece.
• Students research life as a pioneer and
compare/contrast with Native American life
concentrating on the positive and negative
cultural impacts of both groups.