Document Analysis

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Document Analysis

• American Indian Removal
• A Case Study

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Document Analysis

• What is a document?
• A piece of written, printed, or electronic matter
  that provides information or evidence, or that
  serves as an official record.

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Document Analysis

• Documents Are Everywhere
• You probably have some with you!

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Document Analysis

• Questions to ask
• When was it created?
• Who created it?
• Why?
• Why do we care?
• Is this an original or a transcript?

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Document Analysis

• Reading original vs. reading a transcript Which
  is better and why?
• Transcript is easier to read.
• Some documents dont translate well into text.

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Document Analysis Activity

• KGQ Analysis
• What do you know?
• What can you guess?
• What questions do you still have?
• Keeping in mind who, when, why, and what is
  important

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KGQ Analysis
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Document Analysis Activity

• The Documents
• Letter from Isaac Peirce in Ohio to Jeffrey
  Matthewson, May 12, 1794
• Petition from Tarhe to the Governor of Ohio, May
  8, 1810
• McPhersons Land Grant Paperwork, 1820-1832

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Document Analysis

• Discuss
• What do you know?
• What can you guess?
• What questions do you still have?
• How can you answer your remaining questions?

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Document Analysis

• What sources can help answer the remaining
  questions?
• Diaries
• Photographs
• Drawings and Paintings
• Maps
• Statistical Sources
• Oral histories
• More documents!
• Other Sources?

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Document Analysis

• Where could you find these sources?
• Ohio Historical Society
• Local library
• Local historical society
• Web
• People in the community
• Where else?

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Questions?