Trading+and+Bartering

 Activity 3 Pocumtuck economic life

 1. Examine the broadside and then discuss the trading pairs from it, including: 
 * Which had more value, beavers or raccoons?
 * What other animal body parts besides beaver were used for trading and for making tools?
 * How many beaver skins would it take to obtain a hat, shirt, and five pecks of Indian corn?
 * How many raccoons equaled one beaver?
 * How many beavers were needed to equal one bear?
 * Who might have printed this broadside? Why?
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"><span class="body_text">Who had the most control over setting these values?
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"><span class="body_text">Do you think they had any ulterior motives? Explain.

With your partner::. 1. One person in each group will be portraying a Pocumtuck and the other an English trader. 2. You will practice trading by using slips of paper with the names of trade goods used by the Indians and Europeans during this time.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"><span class="body_text">Print the Indian and English trade goods for your team. Each word on the trade goods list represents one item. Cut out each item.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"><span class="body_text">Use your limited number of items to trade for necessities. Use the values on the broadside to determine what each item is worth.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"><span class="body_text">You have 10-15 minutes to complete this activity.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"><span class="body_text">At the end of your trading period, create a written account of the transactions.

===<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Class discussion on the impact of having so many people trading beaver skins and what happens when there are fewer beavers left to trade. ===

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Questions: <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"><span class="body_text">Before they met Europeans, Indian people only took what was needed when they hunted. Ask what students think happened when Europeans began to appear with new trade goods that the Indian people had never seen before.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"><span class="body_text">The Europeans mostly wanted furs, especially beaver furs. With so many Indians and Europeans hunting the beaver in New England, what would happen to the beaver population?
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"><span class="body_text">When the beaver population was depleted, what would the hunters do? What problems might this cause?
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"><span class="body_text">How is hunting different today?

<span class="body_text">[|July 14, 1703 broadside] ( use the printable version - it's easier to read) [|vocabulary sheet]

<span class="body_text">[|Trade Goods Sheet]