Social Studies: The Native American Indian Tribes and the US Government (the Treaty of Hopewell)

In Social Studies, we had to do research about treaties. We had two options to pick from and I chose the Native American Indian Tribes and the US Government, which was the Treaty of Hopewell. We had to research the treaty we have chosen and present the information creatively using text, symbols and visuals. 

There were questions that we had to answer: 

• Who was the treaty between?
• How long has the treaty been binding?
• What are the positives and negatives of being bound by the treaty?
• Were there any obvious similarities between the people affected by the treaty you have researched and the people affected by the Treaty of Waitangi? 

How this relates to our topic about the Treaty of Waitangi?

The reason why the Treaty of Hopewell relates to the topic of the Treaty of Waitangi is that both treaties are represented to form peace between two groups of people.  In addition, their treaties are formed to create alliances and to access shared resources.

What is a 'Treaty?'

• A treaty is an international agreement concluded between States in written form and governed by international law. 
• A treaty is a legally binding international instrument agreed and signed by two or more sovereign nations. 

(The US Government signed 370 treaties along with the Indigenous nations from 1778 to 1871).