Acts from 1830-1956
What Act from 1862 incentivized White Settlers to move west by giving them land to create a farm?
What is the Homestead Act 1862
An area of land governed by a federally recognized Native American Tribe
According to the author, there is a tension between the public displays of Seattle’s history and the actual history itself. What is that tension?
Displays dont represent Native American history in Seattle
An agreement between the United States and Native American tribes
What is a Treaty
Trail of Tears
What TERM did the Federal Government use in the 1850's when the goal was to remove tribal sovereignty and assimilate Indians into Urban Society?
What is Termination
An Indian Tribe recognized by the United States
What is “Comes out all over” and what impact did it have on the early history of Seattle?
Smallpox, negative impact on Native population. It facilitated the founding of seattle by dramatically reducing the local native american population.
Was the roadmap to all treaties in Washington state
What is the Treaty of Point Elliot 1855
Industrial and Agricultural schools for Native American Children
What are Boarding Schools
What Act broke up reservations for Native Americans to start farming and become individuals?
What is the Dawes Act
200+ groups claim to be Native American Tribes but are not recognized by the United States
What are Unrecognized Tribes
Describe the Mapel and Van Asselt wedding. What does it tell you about early interactions between local Native Americans and early Seattle residents?
Trying to coexist through celebration and religion.
Treaties granted this to tribes, the ability to govern themselves and form their own government
What is Tribal Sovereignty
Main, central arguement for writing.
What is a Thesis Claim
What act authorized President Jackson to negotiate with Native American tribes East of the Mississippi?
What is the Indian Relocation act of 1830
The Divine right to move West and civilize Native communities
What is Manifest Destiny
Describe the role of a "Mercer Girl"
upstanding young women who could serve as social housekeepers, transferring the civilizing institutions of marriage and education to the savage Wes
The government employee who was in charge of communicating with the Native Americans, Originally Protestant appointed.
Who is an Indian Agent
the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation, religion, state, ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.
What is Genocide
This act gave Indians the right to vote and become citizens
What is the Indian Citizen act of 1924
Indian lands that were divided as a result of the Dawes Act of 1887. Land owned by Indians and non-indian parties
How did the end of World War 2 negatively impact Native Peoples
Cancelled contracts lead to layoffs at shipyards and factories causing a lack of jobs
This group signed the Treaty of Point Elliot but are not recognized today by the US government. They do not recieve any of the benefits or promises from the treaty
Who are the Duwamish
The Process of a soverign nation to determines its own statehood and form its own government or by which a person controls their own life
What is Self-dtermination