Local
What year was Stockton founded?
1849, although many indigenous communities lived here before.
Should Indigenous people be seen as one culture?
No, they are many different cultures.
What is colonization?
Indigenous
People with historical continuity and relationship to the land and community, that predates or is separate from the colonial state. (People that were originally in an area, before it was "Discovered", "Settled")
What is resistance?
People going against colonial control (or control of any power)
What is the name of BOTH of the groups/tribes local to our area?
The Yokuts or Miwoks
What are places called that Indigenous people were taken to, making them convert to a religion, or used as slave labor to build.
A Mission/ Spanish Mission
Who first colonized California?
(Not including the Native/Indigenous peoples)
The Spanish in the 1700s
Assimilation
Pressure or policies intended to make people adopt a culture. Often with force.
What is Resilience?
A peoples ability to overcome, adapt, bounce back, problem solve, and show toughness, and fortitude.
What is the name of the major waterways connected to the Stockton indigenous communities?
Name both of them
The San Joaquin and Sacramento River.
Food-processing technologies, including acorn processing and seed preparation.
Navigation, fishing, hunting, toolmaking, medicine, storytelling, art, and architecture.
Basket Making
What Religion were the Indigenous people forced to convert to?
Catholic
Sovereignty
A Nation inherent authority to govern itself.
A peoples right to be seen as independent of another government.
Indigenous people were passive with colonization?
False, not true. There was fighting, and other forms of resistance.
How did waterways support indigenous communities?
They supplied, plant, food, transportation.
Making them experts in navigation, canoe-making, basketry, healing, and storytelling.
What is the Stockton based Indigenous or Native resource group called?
Native C.O.R.E.
Bonus points it you know what it stands for.
-100 points
What event in the mid 1800s contributed to more Indigenous displacement and disruptions.
The gold rush in 1848/1849
Cultural Revitalization
Efforts to strengthen, restore, or "Bring Back" important parts of a culture, such as language, traditions, knowledge, or community practices.
Some fled, negotiated, adapted, or maintained cultural practices .
What is the name of the founder of Stockton?
Charles M. Weber.
What are contemporary issues that Indigenous people still face today?
(Give 2 issues)
include; sovereignty, land, environmental protection, cultural preservation, representation, and access to resources.
When learning history we often must think about, who is telling this, why are they telling it, when is it from, and....
(think big picture in Ethnic Studies)
Who's voices are left out.
Self-Representation
When people or communities tell their own stories and represent themselves instead of having others speak for them.
What are some ways Indigenous communities showed/show resilience? (Give 3 ways)
Communities maintain relationships, their past knowledge, identity, native language, arts, family, cultural practices, traditions, and food.