Legislation
Theoretical Key Terms
Historical Context
The Round House
Wildcard
100

Rules that Native Americans can occupy, but cannot hold title to, land.

What is Johnson vs. McIntosh? (1823) 

100

a lens that can help us analyze overlapping and intersecting experiences of oppression

What is intersectionality

100
Land held in a trust with the federal government; ancestral territory of Native American populations still occupied by Native Tribes 

What is reservations?

100

What metaphor does the novel open with and reference throughout? 

What are roots threatening the foundation of a house? 

100

The Jim Crow South rule that order to be classified as Black, one only needs one Black or partially Black ancestor

What is the One Drop Rule? 
200

laws in the United States that define Native American identity by percentages of ancestry.

What are Blood Quantum Laws? 

200

the willful ignorance of race and the ways that racial identity shapes experience and opportunity

What is colorblind ideology? 

200
A forced march of Native peoples out of their ancestral homelands to reservation lands that took place during the fall and winter of 1838 & 1839. This march killed 4,000 Cherokee people. 

What is the Trail of Tears? 

200

What edible item does Linda Wishkob keep bringing to Joe and his family? Hint: He uses this to get close to her so he can learn Linden Lark's routine. 

What is banana bread? 

200

What does MMIW stand for? 

What is Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women? 

300

signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders

What is the Indian Removal Act of 1830? 
300

the process in which a minority or marginalized group or culture comes to resemble a dominant group or assume the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group.

What is assimilation?


300

A system implemented in the 19th and 20th century meant to forcible assimilate Native children through removal from family systems, hair cutting, erasure of Native languages, etc. 

What is Indian Boarding Schools? 

300

Who is the governor of South Dakota in the novel? 

Who is Curtis Yeltow? 

300

The idea that Native people have no right to their own lands because European immigrants "bestowed on them civilization and Christianity" 

What is the Doctrine of Christian Discovery? 


400

the federal government decides that there are certain crimes that, despite having taken place on Native land among Native people, remain under U.S. jurisdiction.

What is The Major Crimes Act of 1885? 

400

The (false) notion that the US Government is like a father to Native tribes, allowing them to act in the "best" interests of Native Americans. 

What is Benevolent Paternalism? 

400
a movement in the 1960s-1990s characterized by the reclamation of Native heritage and Native texts, and a renewed interest in Native traditions and customs. 

What is the Native American Literary Renaissance? 

400

What did the men accuse Nanapush's mother of being? 

What is a Windigoo? 

400

Who wrote "There is No Hierarchy of Oppression?" 

Who is Audre Lorde? 

500

This act resulted in over 64 percent of Native people living in large cities, as opposed to the 6% before its enactment. 

What is The Indian Relocation Act of 1956?

500

discrimination or prejudice against non-heterosexual people based on the assumption that heterosexuality is the norm, default, and ideal sexual orientation

What is heterosexism? 

500

the inherent authority of indigenous tribes to govern themselves within the borders of the United States of America

What is sovereignty? 

500

Who does Cappy have a relationship with, and why is she at the reservation? 

Who is Zelia? and What is a mission trip? 

500

When did Geraldine stop going to church? 

What is after she came back from boarding school? 

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