The Purpose of School
What are the Watchtower, Princes, the Jokers and Thieves?
In its most literal context, wayfinding by canoe requires this, because it is almost impossible for one person to carry a four- or six-person outrigger to the water, let alone paddle it. But when an entire team of paddlers carry and then paddle the canoe, it feels almost weightless.
What is Lau Lima or 400 hands?
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 six children became symbols of Mexican Nationalism when they died fighting against invasion from the U.S. military.
Los Ninos Heroes
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?
This wayfinding technique suggests that everyone must be accountable to and for their community.
What is He wa’a he moku he moku he wa’a: “The essence of the canoe is an island, and the island is a canoe.”
This supreme court case should have protected the Cherokee as a sovereign nation prior to the Trail of Tears.
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
What action did Mexico take in 1829 that really jumpstarted the beginnings of the Mexican American War?
What is banned slavery
This documentary about the Mexican American Studies Program and it's struggle against oppression from the state government won the Audience Favorite and Special Jury Award at the San Diego Latino Film Festival in 2011
What is Precious Knowledge
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?
The elder has a duty to pass on what they know, and the next generation has a duty to learn so that the history and knowledge is not lost.
What is `Imi`Ike: “To hold or pass knowledge.”
This was John Ross's view on Cherokee Removal.
What is Ross viewed protecting Cherokee homelands as more important than tribal sovereignty
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 Alexander and Ida Bell?
In 1968, 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
Recognizing that each of us are unique and hold our own wisdom.
What is Loko Maika`i: “The responsibility to maintain and nourish the things we already know.”
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.
Remember this town as the first battle between the Texians and the Mexican military.
What is the Alamo?
This landmark Supreme Court Case ruled that students cannot have an equal education without equal access to White educators and students.
What is Brown v the Board of Education of Topeka
Enslaved people did this to learn to read and write despite laws making literacy illegal.
What is hide under school windows?
Between 1946-1958 the United States dropped exactly 67 nuclear bombs on this collection of islands in the Pacific.
What are the Marshall Islands
Identify 3 steps that the Ridges took to avoid removal before signing the Treaty of New Echota.
This treaty included "buying" half of Mexico for $15 million.
This famous high school's football team was the first team in the country to take a knee in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick.
What is Seattle Washington's James A. Garfield High School?