Colonialism in the US
This project seeks to replace the Indigenous population with new occupants who claim ownership of the land. (Hint: Lecture, section)
What is “settler colonialism”?
This 19th-century spiritual movement among Native tribes combined cultural traditions and symbolism with political and decolonial significance. (Hint: Lecture, readings)
What is “The Ghost Dance”?
This federal land was occupied by AIM twice, once in 1964 and once in 1969. (Hint: Lecture, readings, documentary)
What is “Alcatraz”?
This law was the first significant effort in United States history to restrict immigration due to ethnicity. (Hint: Lecture, section)
What is “the Chinese Exclusion Act”?
This generation of the 1930s and 1950s initiated the first major civil rights movement by people of Mexican descent in the United States. (Hint: Garcia Reading, Lecture)
What is “the Mexican American Generation”?
This term refers to the intentional elimination of a nation or ethnic group through violence. (Hint: Lecture, section)
What is “genocide”?
In retaliation for resistance and a popular spiritual political movement, more than 250 Native people were massacred by the US government in this 19th-century massacre. (Hint: Lecture, readings)
What is the “Wounded Knee Massacre”?
This AIM action was a 71-day occupation of a village on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota ended in a siege by US government and the death of three activists. (Hint: Lecture, documentary)
What is the “Wounded Knee Occupation”?
The murder of this person was pivotal in the Asian American movement, sparking widespread nonviolent protests, the adoption of civil rights framing, and the application of hate crime statutes to anti-Asian violence. (Hint: Lecture, section)
Who is “Vincent Chin”?
This generation of people of Mexican descent built on the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement, but expanded the fight to include anti-colonialism, the “Third World” theme of self-determination, and community empowerment. (Hint: Garcia Reading, Lecture)
What is “the Chicano Generation”?
The process by which individuals or groups adopt the customs, values, and behavior of a dominant group. (Hint: Lecture)
What is “assimilation”?
This institution was the first Indian boarding school, which opened in 1879. (Hint: Lecture, Section)
The Carlisle Indian Industrial School
These years of AIM focused on local issues, civil rights, and integration. (Hint: Lecture)
What is “1968-1972”?
Before the end of the 1960s, the three largest Asian immigrant groups in the U.S were Chinese, Japanese, and this third group. (Hint: Lecture)
What is “Filipino”?
This social movement is primarily made up of young people who immigrated to the U.S. as children. (Hint: Lecture, section)
What is the “DREMers movement’?
This form of domination “is for substitution or elimination rather than for extraction.” (Hint: Lecture)
What is “settler domination”?
This 1953 policy adopted by Congress formally ended federal recognition for more than 100 tribes and led to the relocation of more than 100,000 indigenous people to urban centers over 20 years. (Hint: Lecture)
What is “The Termination Policy”?
These years of AIM focused on treaty rights, self-determination, sovereignty, and national separatism. (Hint: Lecture)
What is “1972-1978”?
The fight for this building exemplified pan-Asian activism against urban renewal, the displacement of ethnic enclaves, and eviction. (Hint: Lecture, section)
What is “The International Hotel”?
The United Farm Workers was led by immigrants primarily from which two countries? (Hint: lecture)
What is “Mexico” and “the Philippines”?
The US government forcing Native tribes to move from ancestral lands into ever-smaller reservations is an example of which settler colonial strategy? (Hint: Lecture)
What is “displacement”?
This person led warriors to victory over General Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn. (Hint: Lecture, Ness Reading)
Chief Sitting Bull
This AIM action was a cross-country caravan from the West Coast to Washington, D.C., culminating in the occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. (Hint: Lecture, readings)
What is the “Trail of Broken Treaties”?
This term refers to the phenomenon of distancing oneself from their own ethnic group, usually due to negative experiences or to avoid negative stereotypes. (Hint: Lecture)
What is “ethnic disidentification”?
This 1994 ballot initiative sought to establish a state-run citizenship screening system and prohibit undocumented immigrants from using public services, like education. (Hint: Lecture)
What is “Proposition 187”?