Place is Powerful

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Place is Powerful
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• Where are you from?

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Where are you from?

• What does that mean?
• From specific..Batchelor Middle School or
  Bloomington, IN
• To general.. The United States or the Midwest

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Imagine ..

• that you needed to describe to someone who has
  no knowledge of United States geography,
  especially of local geography, where you are
  from.
• How would you describe that?

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• We can discuss this in many social and geographic
  contexts, too.
• For example, my family is from the line of
  Hungerfords of England.
• Or
• Im from a place that has four distinct seasons
  so we have learned to adapt to those. We drink
  hot cocoa in the winter and iced tea in the
  summer.

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Where is History From?

• Usually we want to know what happened
• BUT.
• History happens somewhere!

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Place

• Did you ever think that a place has a history,
  a story to tell, a biography?
• Why do some events happen in one place and not
  another?
• Can an event change a place?

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Does place have meaning for your life?

• Think of an event in your life or in history and
  where it happened.
• How was the place where the event happened
  critical to its occurrence or outcome?

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Can place impact our everyday lives?

• What do we know about some Native American
  culture groups and how place impacted their
  lives?
• What about the lives of the pioneers?
• Man has
• Lived with nature
• Battled nature
• Destroyed nature

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What were doing.

• Our study into the history of the United States
  is a study of
• The LAND
• AND
• The decisions of man and how hell use it.
• Place attributes historical context to our
  understanding.
• Man leaves an imprint where ever he goes.

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Indianas Heritage in Nature
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Indianas Heritage in Nature

• Well begin our study with Indianas natural
  environment as close to pre-human inhabitation as
  we can.
• Why might that be difficult?