Theorize This!
Comes at the end of your introduction. It serves as the roadmap for your paper.
What is thesis?
The process of explaining what something means and how you arrived at that meaning.
What is interpretation?
This California museum is named after the Indigenous man who was taken from his community and exhibited as “Ishi.” Name the location
What is the University of California, Berkeley Museum of Anthropology.
We read, watched, and discussed many different dance styles. Name 2 of them.
What is Fancy Dance, Haha, Hula (etc)
This term refers to collective support and action with others, especially in response to shared struggles or systems of oppression.
What is collective solidarity? (will also accept solidarity)
Clear, debatable claim about what a source, text or idea means or reveals, supported by evidence and reasoning
What is an argument?
This approach examines how colonial power, structures, and relationships continue to shape societies even after formal colonial rule has ended.
What is post colonialism?
The right of a people or nation to govern itself without external control.
What is sovereignty?
This Indigenous activist movement emerged in the 1960s and 1970s to fight for Indigenous sovereignty, self-determination, treaty rights, and an end to U.S. assimilation and termination policies.
What is the Red Power Movement
Cultural traditions, stories, practices, beliefs, music, dance, and customs transmitted within and across communities and generations.
What is folklore? (will also accept folk dance)
Summarizes your project in 250-350 words. It includes thesis, objectives, and findings.
What is an abstract?
This term refers to knowledge preserved through documents, photographs, and written records, while its counterpart is knowledge transmitted through embodied practices, such as dance, gesture, and oral tradition.
What is archive and repertoire?
We discussed many settler colonial nations. Name 3 active ones.
What is Australia, the United States, Canada, Israel, etc
This is a Palestinian dance that features stomping.
What is dabke?
This concept describes a strategy in which Indigenous communities decline to provide access, knowledge, participation, or recognition when doing so would require accepting the terms imposed by colonial institutions.
What is Indigenous Refusal?
Careful attention to what you can directly observe in a source without immediately interpreting its meaning.
What is description? (Will also accept observation.)
Edward Said used this concept to describe how Western institutions and cultural practices constructed “the Orient” as exotic, irrational, backward, and fundamentally different from the West, reinforcing colonial power.
What is Orientalism?
This term describes the ways non-Indigenous people adopt, imitate, perform, or imagine Indigenous identities, cultures, and practices.
What is "playing Indian?"
We have discussed several instances of Indigenous resistance. Name at least 2 specific events that took place.
What is Idle No More, Wounded Knee, Alcatraz Occupation, Mau Mau Rebellion, etc?
Associated with Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, this concept describes forms of collective life, learning, and resistance that exist outside or beneath dominant institutions and do not seek institutional recognition.
What is the undercommons?
Document that describes a work of art in words.
What is an ekphrasis?
A reference identifying the source of information, ideas, quotations, or evidence used in your work.
What is citation?
A system of institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination.
What is apartheid?
The process of creating alternative ways of living, relating, organizing, and imagining society rather than simply resisting an existing world.
What is worldmaking?
An Indigenous approach to learning that understands land as a source and teacher of knowledge rather than simply as a physical space or resource.
What is land as pedagogy?