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As an extension of the 7th Grade field trip to the American Museum of Natural History and their unit on the Indian Removal Act, Kathryn Kao’s history students studied the removal story of one of six southeast tribal nations. They then designed and created monuments to commemorate an aspect of that story, and their final projects are now on display in the School’s Anderson Library.
This week, each 7th Grade history class met in the library to do a gallery walk, examine each other’s projects carefully, and answer some reflection questions.
At the beginning of the month, the students visited the American Museum of Natural History, where they examined the representation of indigenous people in the Roosevelt Memorial Hall and discussed the removal of the Theodore Roosevelt Equestrian Statue. As part of a short walking tour, the group also learned about Seneca Village, from which people were removed to create Central Park.
The students later engaged in an activity in the School’s Center for Innovation & Design (CID) to help them think about the purpose of monuments and how monuments can take many forms.
