Seven Essential Understandings

Prepared by the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center based on those developed under Montana Office of Public Instruction.

Seven Essential Understandings Videos

Essential Understanding 1: Great Diversity Among Tribes
https://youtu.be/s1KX4Zk_0yM

Essential Understanding 2: Diversity Among Identity
https://youtu.be/cbDo1Se75kM

Essential Understanding 3: Native Traditional Beliefs
https://youtu.be/7M9ATIAyq6o

Essential Understanding 4: Policies that Affected Tribes
https://youtu.be/KajvSiY4v-o

Essential Understanding 5: Reservations
https://youtu.be/mPtxDFPQLrY

Essential Understanding 6: History from a California Indian Perspective
https://youtu.be/VFXRXsUs6P8

Essential Understanding 7: Tribes Have Sovereign Powers
https://youtu.be/KKvOn4629O0