1. Student handout
Name ____________________________________ Period ______ Date ______
Don’t Drink the Water
Dave Matthews Band
What are the themes? What do these lyrics
Come out come out
No use in hiding
mean?
Come now come now
Can you not see?
There's no place here
What were you expecting
Not room for both
Just room for me
So you will lay your arms down
Yes I will call this home
Away away
You have been banished
Your land is gone
Reflect on how you feel And given me
How are the Natives
while watching the And here I will spread my wings depicted?
video. List 1-2 Yes I will call this home
What's this you say
emotions. You feel a right to remain
Then stay and I will bury you
What's that you say
Your father's spirit still lives in this place
I will silence you
Here's the hitch
Your horse is leaving
Don't miss your boat
It's leaving now
And as you go I will spread my wings
What is Dave feeling? Yes I will call this home Whose perspective is
I have no time to justify to you
Fool you're blind, move aside for me Dave portraying?
All I can say to you my new neighbor
Is you must move on or I will bury you
Now as I rest my feet by this fire
Those hands once warmed here
I have retired them
I can breathe my own air
I can sleep more soundly
Upon these poor souls
I'll build heaven and call it home
'Cause you're all dead now
I live with my justice
I live with my greedy need
HIGHLIGHT I live with no mercy
THE LINE YOU I live with my frenzied feeding What does he mean?
THINK IS MOST I live with my hatred
I live with my jealousy
POWERFUL!!! I live with the notion
That I don't need anyone but me
Don't drink the water
Don't drink the water
There's blood in the water
Don't drink the water
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2. USE AS AN EXTENTION
ACTIVITY. Have
students draw a Venn I’m An Indian Too
Diagram and
Irving Berlin
compare/contrast the 2
songs. [1st refrain:]
Like the Seminole, Navajo, Kickapoo
Like those Indians
I'm an Indian too
A Sioux ooh ooh!
A Sioux ooh ooh!
Just like Battle Axe, Hatchet Face, Eagle Nose
Like those Indians
I'm an Indian too
A Sioux ooh ooh!
A Sioux ooh ooh!
Some Indian summer's day
Without a sound
I may hide away
With Big Chief Hole-in-the-Ground
And I'll have totem poles, tomahawks, small papoose
Which will go to prove
I'm an Indian too
A Sioux ooh ooh!
A Sioux
[Patter:]
With my chief in his teepee
We'll raise an Indian family
And I'll be busy night and day
Looking like a flour sack
With two papooses on my back
And three papooses on the way
[2nd refrain:]
Like the Chippewa, Iroquois, Omaha
Like those Indians
I'm an Indian too
A Sioux ooh ooh!
A Sioux ooh ooh!
Just like Rising Moon, Falling Pants, Running Nose
Like those Indians
I'm an Indian too
A Sioux ooh ooh!
A Sioux ooh ooh!
Some Indian summer's day
Without a care
I may run away
With Big Chief Son-of-a-Bear

3. And I'll wear moccasins, wampum beads, feather hats
Which will go to prove
I'm an Indian too
A Sioux ooh ooh!
A Sioux
[Alternate line:]
And I'll have totem poles, tomahawks, pipes of peace
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4. This Land Is Your Land
Woodie Guthrie
This land is your land This land is my land
From California to the New York island;
From the red wood forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and Me.
As I was walking that ribbon of highway,
I saw above me that endless skyway:
I saw below me that golden valley:
This land was made for you and me.
I've roamed and rambled and I followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts;
And all around me a voice was sounding:
This land was made for you and me.
When the sun came shining, and I was strolling,
And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling,
As the fog was lifting a voice was chanting:
This land was made for you and me.
As I went walking I saw a sign there
And on the sign it said "No Trespassing."
But on the other side it didn't say nothing,
That side was made for you and me.
In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people,
By the relief office I seen my people;
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking
Is this land made for you and me?
Nobody living can ever stop me,
As I go walking that freedom highway;
Nobody living can ever make me turn back
This land was made for you and me.

5. Student handout
Name:______________________________________Period:_______Date:_____
DIRECTIONS: Look at the painting and respond to the following questions.
1. How does the artist show the Cherokee’s sadness?
2. What information does the painting provide about the weather?
3. The Cherokee had to make quick decisions about what to carry with them. What do
you think they took?
4. What would you take if you had to suddenly leave your home forever?
5. What sounds would you hear if this was a difficult march?
6. Who in the painting carried weapons?

6. Student Handout
PREREADING: Preview the questions prior to reading
DURING READING: Read the information on pgs 62-63 and to the questions
AFTER READING: Review responses for accuracy
1. Why did the Cherokees go to court in the 1830s?
3. What was the Indian Removal Act?
4. Who was John Marshall?
5. Who was Andrew Jackson?
6. Why did the Jackson & Marshall clash?
7. Why is the route the Cherokees took called the Trail of Tears?

7. Name:________________________________________Pd:_____Date:
WESTWARD EXPANSION
The Trail of Tears & The Massacre at Washita River
Directions:
• Determine how the 2 EVENTS are the SAME & how they are DIFFERENT by:
o STEP 1: Read Chester the Crab’s “How Did Settlers Cross the Plains?”
o STEP 2: Refer back to your notes and knowledge about the Trail of Tears.
o STEP 3: Fill in the Venn Diagram below.
 minimum of 2 bullets in each section
TRAIL OF TEARS MASSACRE AT WASHITA RIVER