What is Ethnic Studies?
List three of the eight major identities of individuals
What is (any of three of these eight) age, race/ethnicity, citizenship status, disability, religion, class/socioeconomic status, gender, and/or sexual orientation?
This was the primary food source for many indigenous Californian tries along the coast
What are acorns?
This ended the Spanish Mission system
What is Mexican independence from Spain?
This ended during the period of Mexican rule in California
What is the secularization of the missions?
This event occurred right as California came under American rule
What is the California Gold Rush?
This is a nation
What is a common history, culture, language, and ethnic origin?
Indigenous communities were masters at this ability
What is adapting to their enviornment?
This led to the decline of indigenous populations in the mission system
What is disease and overworking?
This challenge occured in Mexico during Mexican rule in California
What is political instability?
African Americans arrived for the Gold Rush with these four ideas in mind
What are miners, laborers, entrepreneurs, and/or freedom seekers?
The main purpose of Ethnic Studies
What is to uplift and highlight the stories of minorities and other marginalized groups?
These three examples are ways Indigenous Californians expressed their culture
What are beadwork, dances, and basketry?
This was the primary purpose of the mission system
Californio ranchers received under Mexican rule in California
What are former mission lands?
These institutions played key roles in supporting African Americans in California
What are African American churches, mutual aid societies, and cultural institutions?
This led to the development of Ethnic Studies on college campuses in 1968
What is the Vietnam War and Civil Rights movements producing the Third World Liberation Front, as well as Black, Hispanic, and Asian American communities wanting to control their own education?
This significant event marked the beginning of European colonization in California, leaving a profound impact on the indigenous populations
What is the Mission System?
The mission system had a secondary goal of supressing these Indigenous practices
What are cultural practices?
This started the push to end Mexican rule over California
What is the Bear Flag Revolt?
This was the estimated population growth of the African American population from 1850 to 1860
What is an estimated 3000 African Americans?
Ethnic studies should be taught at these grade levels
What are middle school, high school, and university?
All indigenous groups in California shared this trait
What is a deep spiritual connection to natur?
What is a side effect of the mission system for the Spanish?
What is economic development through agriculture?
What is global commerce/trade?
This is the first African American church in California
What is St. Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church?