The Purpose of School
All Along the Watchtower is a song famously covered by Jimi Hendrix. We used these three things from the song to determine structures of power.
What are the Watchtower, Princes, the Jokers and Thieves?
This is a type of exploration used to advance trade and communication between peoples. It requires collaboration, knowledge, and accountability to oneself and the group.
What is Wayfinding?
This route led to the deaths of thousands of indigenous people.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This belief was used to justify the expansion of the U.S. as a part of God's plan.
What is Manifest Destiny?
These institutions required indigenous people to stop speaking their native languages, wear their traditional clothes, or see their families for months at a time.
What were Indian Boarding Schools?
Between 1946-1958 the United States dropped exactly 67 nuclear bombs on this collection of islands in the Pacific.
What are the Marshall Islands?
This act passed by Congress in 1830 said that all Indigenous people living east of the Mississippi would have to relocate to west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Prior to the war in 1845 there were many in the United States who desired this western territory for the possibility of extracting raw materials and conducting trade with Asia.
What is California?
Instead of desegregating their school district, Prince Edward County School District chose to do this.
What is close down the entire district and switch to a private school model?
Pacific Island peoples have been passing down knowledge through this form of oral tradition for thousands of years.
What are music and chants?
This supreme court case should have protected the Cherokee as a sovereign nation prior to the Trail of Tears.
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
These six children became symbols of Mexican Nationalism when they died fighting against invasion from the U.S. military.
Los Ninos Heroes
In 1964, students from Los Angeles Unified School District staged the first major Latinx protest against racism in this event.
What was the East L.A. Blowouts
This wayfinding technique translates to "The essence of the canoe is an island, and the island is a canoe."
What is He wa’a he moku he moku he wa’a?
This guy was a hardcore assimilationist, but he had some good points about moving to Oklahoma.
Who was Major Ridge?
Remember this town as the first battle between the Texians and the Mexican military.
What is the Alamo?
Indigeneity, Power and Oppression, Resistance and Liberation, Reflection and Action, Identity.
What are the five pillars of ethnic studies?
Chief Ross refused to sign this treaty, but Major Ridge had no problem signing on behalf of the tribe.
What was the Treaty of New Echota?
This treaty included "buying" half of Mexico for $15 million.