Key Terms 2.1
A written agreement between two states or sovereigns
What is a treaty?
To wrongfully enter property or lands of another
What is trespass?
Rejection
What is veto?
Leader of the Yakama tribe during the Indian Wars
Who is Chief Kamiakin?
The 42nd state
What is Washington?
To give up
What is relinquish?
To kill in an especially violent and brutal way
What is slaughter?
Right to vote
What is suffrage?
The first territorial governor of Washington
Who Isaac Stevens?
60,000 people
What is the required population for Washington to become a state?
An area of land set aside by the US government for Native Americans
What is a reservation?
To show compassion through decisions
What is humane?
Individual designated to act for or represent other people
What is a delegate?
Leader of the Nez Perce tribe and namesake of a Richland middle school
Chief Joseph
Supreme laws of the land that overrule tribal laws
What are federal laws?
The process of accepting a new culture
What is assimilation?
To respond with similar behavior or action
What is retaliate?
Official power to make legal judgements
What is jurisdiction?
The first state governor of Washington
Who is Elisha P. Ferry?
Legislation that gave Natives an allotment of land and is responsible for the boarding schools where Native children were forcefully taken from their homes in hopes to assimilate them into Euro-American culture and society
What is the Dawes Act?
A government that has independent authority
What is a sovereign nation?
Meaning to intimidate or forcefully convince
What is coerce?
Person or group connected to a particular religion or set of beliefs
What is a sectarian?
Wrote the speech "Kill the Indian, Save the Man," and is responsible for the Indian Boarding Schools
Who is Richard H. Pratt?
The 10 treaties signed by various tribes from 1855-1856 in Washington territory
What are the Stevens treaties?