Key Terms
This is a structure and not an event
What is Settler Colonialism?
This federal agency is responsible for the administration of policy related to federally recognized tribes in the United States
What is the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
This term refers to a system that the federal government placed onto tribes to limit their citizenship.
What is Blood Quantum?
Dhillon argues that one of the most recent and stark representations of Indigenous peoples’ leadership concerning climate change is the historic and epic resistance to this entity
What is the Dakota Access Pipeline?
These are highly toxic and exposure can take place through diet, environmental exposure, or accidents. They negatively affect humans, plant and animal species and natural ecosystems both nearby and at significant distances away from the original source of discharge.
What are Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)
Indigenous Feminisms uphold a few specific concepts. Name one.
What is (tribal) sovereignty? What is decolonization? What is a critique of (settler) colonialism?
In Canada, this law disenfranchised First Nations women. Until 1985, women with Indian status who married someone without status lost their status rights
What is the Indian Act?
This is not a metaphor
What is Decolonization?
This scholar made the arguments that “Indigenous Feminism seeks an Indigenous Liberation that includes women and not just the conforming woman," and “Indigenous feminist work is done in the service of women, but also of children, men and communities”
Who is Green?
In Canada in the 1990s, this woman and her family were denied justice
Who is Pamela George?
From 1970 - 1976, this institution was responsible for sterilizing 25 - 50% of Native American women.
What is the Indian Health Services (IHS)?
This federal policy allows for allows states to assume jurisdiction over Indian reservations
What is Public Law 280 or PL 280?
This term asserts that mothers are both responsible for their families yet incapable of that responsibility. They must adhere to medical advice to raise healthy children.
What is scientific motherhood?
Tuck and Yang argue that this community of people are, "diverse, not just of white European descent, and include people of color, even from other colonial contexts,"
Who are settlers?
This framework (re)writes, (re)rights, and (re)rites Native feminisms through an oral tradition that centers Native women. It's a tribally specific methodology.
What is a Hupa Feminist Analytic?
These scholars argue for the term “Native Feminist Theories” as opposed to “Native feminism(s)," or "Native feminist(s)" for they are identity derrived labels. They believe “Native Feminist Theories” allows for a wider audience and active engagement.
Who are Arvin, Tuck and Morrill?
This watershed Supreme Court case from 1978 established that Indian tribal courts do not have criminal jurisdiction to try and punish non-Native people
What is Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe?
In the United States, we refer to these institutions as "Indian Boarding Schools," but in Canada they are known as this
What is residential schools?
These federal officials visited Native women’s homes to impart the tenets of "scientific motherhood" (including nutrition, sanitation, and childcare techniques) as well as the tenets of Euro-American femininity and domesticity.
Who are Field Matrons?
In her article, Lumsden discusses this 1978 policy that Congress passed to halt the massive out-adoption of Indian children because of the devastating impacts adoption has on Indian children and the future of Indian tribes.
What is the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA)?
Tuck and Yang indicate six settler moves to innocence. Name one.
What are? Settler Nativism, Fantasizing adoption, Colonial equivocation, Conscientization, At risk-ing / Asterisk-ing Indigenous peoples, Re-occupation and urban homesteading
This Supreme Court case preceded the Major Crimes Act of 1885 and established that federal law did not extend to Native American crimes committed on reservation
What is Ex Parte Crow Dog, 1883?
This entity was established with the purpose of documenting the history and lasting impacts of the Canadian Indian school system on Indigenous students and their families
What is the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada?
This Choctaw-Cherokee physician conducted a study among Native women who received medical care at federal facilities.
Who is Dr. Connie Pinkerton-Uri?
Goeman's reading "Remember What You Are" focused on the literary work of this Mohawk writer
Who is E. Pauline Johnson