Objective: To create a multilayered story map of either a location or an area on the Susquehanna River in ArcGIS online with a focus on the Confluence and Shamokin
Existing layers consist of the following (see data dictionary for full list of layers):
- georectified manuscript maps
- Hydrology
- Topography
- Indian paths
- Indian settlements (from textual and archaeological evidence)
- colonial settlements
Students will create story maps that show the relation of Shamokin in 1748 (as evidenced in the Powell Diary) to:
- Native American populations in Pennsylvania, New York, and south..
- Colonial populations on the river–traders, connections to colonial settlements, mills, Philadelphia
- connections to Native American food sources (Wyoming Valley as the “breadbasket of the Iroquois”; hunting expeditions)
- other Moravian missions (Gnadenhütten; Bethlehem; Shekomecko, NY)
Janine Glathar will show you the different tools available in ArcMap online that will allow you
- identify the information in the extant layers
- make a new layer with the data that is contained in your section of the Powell Diary
- use the app tools in ArcMap online to create a Story Map that connects the narrative of the Powell Diary to the rest of the populations of the Susquehanna River
Blog prompt: Blog #5
- A 400-450 word blog post response to this prompt: What can GIS reveal to us about the Shamokin mission’s connectedness to other Native American and Colonial peoples and settlements- and more generally how we can use maps and spatial thinking to help us understand the complexities and nuances of history?
- Include three direct references to the Bodenhammer article; embed the story map into your post.
Comment on one of your classmates’ posts.
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