Curriculum Materials

This map highlights the significance of Fort Union's location among the Upper Missouri Plains Tribes.

This lesson plan compares and contrasts the Great Plains and the Central Lowlands, identifying different tribes territories on maps, and explaining the ways the climate regions influenced Upper Missouri Plains Indian culture in North Dakota.

Daily life at Fort Union Trading Post reflected the social and economic relationship between and within American Indian and European cultures associated with the 19th century fur-trading empire. This teacher resource document provides a unique look into Fort Union's inhabitants and social hierarchy.

Fort Union epitomizes the mutually advantageous interaction of American Indian and European American cultures associated with the fur-trading empire on the Upper Missouri region of the American frontier. This reference document describes aspects of Assiniboine life, Assiniboine childhood, and the tools used by adults.

This document provides background information for teachers on Fort Union trading. For 39 years, Fort Union was the longest-lasting and most profitable fur trading post on the Upper Missouri River.

In this lesson, students will compare and contrast the Great Plains and the Central Lowlands. Then, students will identify different tribal territories on maps. By the end of the lesson, students will answer the following essential question: How did the different climate regions of North Dakota influence Indian cultures in those regions?