PBS Documentaries
This individual was called the Shawnee Prophet.
Who is Tenskwatawa/Lalawethika?
These strories are used to explain first appearances or beginnings of indigenous peoples.
What is an Origin Story?
This president openly defied the judgement of the Supreme Court and favored removal.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This specific country created the Mission system and deported Apaches in the 18th century to other colonies.
Who are the Spanish?
This chapter from the Major Problems textbook includes the traditional Origin Stories of several Indigenous peoples.
What is Chapter 2?
This Shawnee leader was the brother of the Shawnee Prophet.
Who is Tecumseh?
This early Papal Doctrine allowed Western Christian countries to call a kind of "Dibs" on "newly discovered" territories in the Americas.
What is the Papal Bull?
This series of court cases included 3 major Supreme Court rulings named after the Chief Justice.
What is the Marshall Trilogy?
This policy of limitation initiated after the Seven Years War by the British was intended to keep colonists out of an area "Reserved for the Indians."
What is the Royal Proclamation of 1763?
This essay from a notable Ojibwe scholar discusses gender roles in 18th century New England.
What is Jean M. O'brien's Survival: Indian Women in Eighteenth Century New England?
This missionary whose arrest by Georgia led to a significant Supreme Court case.
Who is Samuel Worcester?
This confederacy was created to include representatives from each tribe and is credited with being one of the inspirations for the U.S.'s representative government.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
These five specific tribes removed to Indian territory are collective known by this moniker.
Who are the Five Civilized Tribes?
This term created in the Supreme Court case, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, formally established the political status of Indigenous Nations within the U.S. political framework.
What is "Domestic Dependent Nations?"
This essay entitled "Indian Leaders in the Pueblo Revolt of 1680" was written by this author.
Who is Stefanie Beninato?
According to the "Blood Law," this was the penalty for any Cherokee citizen who sold land without consent of the tribe.
What is Death?
This proposed theory attempts to explain the movement of peoples into the North American continent.
What is the Bering Strait Theory?
This specific Indigenous nation was at the forefront of the early Supreme Court cases of the early 19th century.
What is the Cherokee Nation?
This act passed by congress in 1790 was the first federal law that regulated trade with Native American tribes.
What is the Indian Trade and Intercourse Act of 1790?
This Choctaw scholar was critical of the field of Native American history in their essay.
Who is Devon Mihesuah?
This festival, conducted by the Wampanoag people and others, included a time where people forgave offenses.
What is the Green Corn Festival?
This Catholic policy established an additional component for colonization after the initial 1493 order.
What is the El Requerimiento?
This Indigenous people relocated to Mexico to escape removal but were forcefully returned to the United States and sent to Indian Territory.
Who are the Kickapoo?
This system of trade was intended to remove private enterprise in the frontier, keep international traders out, and stabilize trade with Indigenous peoples.
What is the Factory System?
The extra reading written by this Cherokee scholar included their theory for explaining peoplehood.
Who is Robert K. Thomas?