Fire
A fire set by an Indigenous group for land management, food, or spiritual practice.
What is a Cultural Burn?
A big, flat area of land that is higher than the land around it.
What is a Plateau?
A formal agreement between two or more sovereign states
what is a Treaty?
a roughly 2,000-mile historic route from Missouri to Oregon, used by hundreds of thousands of American pioneers in the mid-1800s for westward expansion
What is the Oregon Trail
Forcing someone or something out of where it is to be somewhere else.
What is Displacement?
Plants or ecosystems that need fire to stay healthy or grow properly.
A large depression in the earth, in the shape of a bowl.
What is a Basin?
A volunteer army that does not have to follow the dame rules as the US Army.
What is a militia?
The slow and difficult foot journey that Native people from the Rogue Valley were forced to walk in winter - over 265 miles.
The Oregon Trail of Tears
A Tribal nation with Homelands at the mouth of the Colombia river.
What is Chinook Indian Nation?
The study of organisms and their relations with their physical surroundings.
What is Ecology?
A place where humans breed and hatch fish.
What is a Fish Hatchery?
A phrase meaning "so long ago that no one knows when it started"
What is Time Immemorial
Act of Congress that gave settlers free land in Oregon and led to the violent removal of Native people from their lands.
Oregon Land Donation Act (1850)
The act of giving up something to someone else. ("To cede" something means to give it up.)
What is Cession?
This endangered eco-system relies on fire to prevent the encroachment of conifer trees.
What is an Oak Savanna?
A fire-dependent plant used by indigenous Oregonians to make baskets
What is Hazel or Bear Grass?
a deceitful and unreliable person; a bad guy; a word used by the French fur trappers to describe Indigenous people
What is a Rouge?
Passed by Congress under the Andrew Jackson presidency, this act removed all Indians east of the Mississippi to an "Indian Territory" where they would be "permanently" housed.
The Indian Removal Act (1830)
a Native American cultural and linguistic group whose original territory encompassed the Willamette Valley and areas southward to Yoncalla and the Umpqua River.
Who are the Kalapuya people?
(from the smokey the bear video) a place-based understanding of ecosystems, developed over generations by Indigenous and local cultures, encompassing detailed knowledge of plants, animals, and natural phenomena, passed down through stories and practices.
What is Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)
Power that is generated using water such as a dam.
What is Hydroelectric?
The right of a group to make rules for themselves without outside interference
a violent conflict in Southern Oregon between U.S. forces (Army & militia) and Indigenous peoples of the Rogue River watershed (like the Takelma, Shasta, Athapaskan groups) over land, resources, and escalating tensions from settler encroachment
The Rouge River War
Name 3 of the 9 federally recognized tribes of Oregon. (Hint: there is a poster on the wall of the classroom)
Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, Burns Paiute, Kalamath, Confederated Tribes of Siletz, Confederated Rives of Warm Springs, The Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw, Coquille, Cow Creek Band Of Umpqua, (I will also count Chinook)