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HSS-4.2.1 (History–Social Science)


Standard Identifier: HSS-4.2.1
Content Area: History–Social Science
Grade: 4
Course: California: A Changing State, Grade 4

Overarching Standard:
HSS-4.2 Students describe the social, political, cultural, and economic life and interactions among people of California from the pre-Columbian societies to the Spanish mission and Mexican rancho periods.

Standard:
Discuss the major nations of California Indians, including their geographic distribution, economic activities, legends, and religious beliefs; and describe how they depended on, adapted to, and modified the physical environment by cultivation of land and use of sea resources.

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