Major Concepts:

1. Many -- but not all -- Europeans viewed and experienced the process of contact with American Indians as a process by which more civilized Europeans conquered barbaric American Indians for the rightful possession of the fertile and rich American territories.

2. Many -- but not all -- Indians viewed and experienced the process of contact with European explorers, missionaries, and settlers as a process by which alien invaders shattered traditional cultures and ways of life.

Objectives: The student will be able to:

1. Using the motion picture "Dances with Wolves" as the source of data, in a brief discussion, derive examples of Indians' and European Americans' differing perspectives about their encounters. The teacher should record the perspective in a two-column board exhibit.

2. Using the same interest groups formed in Lesson One, have students proceed as follows:
   1. Design the major elements of a portfolio that will display evidence of Indians' and European Americans' views of the process of contact and the experiences that emerged from their various encounters.

   2. Assign tasks to each group member related to the elements of the portfolio.

   3. Develop a set of criteria to evaluate the validity of the material as evidence of the actual processes and experiences of contact and encounter between Indians and Europeans.

   4. Each member performs the assigned task.

   5. The groups collectively evaluate the members' materials and select the most powerful evidence to include in their portfolios.

   6. The groups present the portfolio in some way to the class.

3. Students are to read a published synopsis of the Roanoke colony's founding and disappearance in 1584.

4. Using the Roanoke reading and the findings presented in the groups' portfolio, create an Indian explanation and an English explanation of why the colony vanished.