fra 3rd travis SS Unit 5 Lesson 1
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- government service
- a service that is provided for all citizens of a community
- taxes
- money that people of a community pay the government to run services, pay the people in those services, build buildings and buy equipment
- Wilma Mankiller
- Chief of the Cherokee Nation that who helped solve problems in the Cherokee Community
- By collecting taxes and forming government services that they need
- How can a leader help a community get what its citizens need
- town meeting
- meeting where citizens discuss problems in their community and ways to solve them
- Put their ideas together and find a good way to solve the problem
- How can people in communities work together to solve problems
- petition
- a letter people sign that asks the government to do something
- firemen, police, traffic signs and libraries
- examples of government services
- council
- a group of people who have been chosen by citizens to meet and solve problems. This is done when the city or town is too large for town meetings
- Volunteers from Bell built the water pipeline
- What idea came from Wilma Mankillers meetings in Bell to fix the water problem
- Get barrels of water from other communities
- How did the people of Bell used to get water
- She held meetings where the citizens, leaders and government could share ideas
- How did Wilma Mankiller start to solve the problem in Bell
- No Running Water
- What was one of the biggest problems in Bell
- city hall
- the building where people in city government work
- Sarah Winnemucca
- she the languages of Indians and White people and wrote a book in English to help the Indians and White People live together
- Bell, Oklahoma
- City that Wilma Mankiller helped solve a problem