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The Three Sisters: Corn, Beans, and Squash
Explain the companion planting technique of the Three Sisters and how agriculture sustained Native families.
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Native Peoples of Massachusetts and New England
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Understand the history, culture, seasonal ways of life, territories, and ongoing contributions of Indigenous nations in Massachusetts and New England.
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Learning standards covered
3.T2.3Massachusetts Social Studies Standards · 5th GradeExplain the diversity of Native Peoples, present and past, in Massachusetts and the New England region.
3.T2.3.dMassachusetts Social Studies Standards · 5th Gradecontributions of a tribal group from the area of the school (e.g., language, literature, arts, trade routes, food such as corn, beans, and squash, useful items such as baskets, canoes, wampum, and useful knowledge of medicinal plants, words such as powwow and moccasin, and many names for waterways, hills, mountains, islands and place names, such as the Connecticut and Merrimack Rivers, Mount Wachusett, the Taconic Range, Nantucket, Natick, Seekonk, Agawam, Chicopee)