Trick or Treat(y)
This type of agreement can only be signed by two sovereign nations.
What is a treaty?
This federal law, passed in 1887, divided Indigenous lands into small, individual parcels and assigned them to individual tribal members or families.
What is allotment?
This essential understanding can be seen in the film Broken Treaties when a Paiute woman was singing "The Itsy-Bitsy Spider" in Northern Paiute.
What is language?
What historians can learn about their topic from a particular source.
What is value?
This tribe had a successful timber industry, endured termination, and was later restored.
Who is the Klamath?
The process of formally accepting a treaty.
What is ratification?
One of the goals of allotment was to make Indigenous people settle down and live more like Whites. This was part of the overarching goal of...
Salmon fishing is an example of this essential understanding for the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde.
What is Lifeways?
Things like the type of document, group identification of the author, and historical context are part of this.
What is origin of a source?
This is one of the tribes that was forcibly relocated following the negotiation of the Coast treaty.
Who are the Siletz, Grand Ronde, Coquille, Umpqua, amongst many other tribes and bands.
A number of tribes and bands from western Oregon left their homes under the impression they would get a large, coastal reservation under this treaty.
What is the Coast Treaty?
What is sold to White settlers?
What is identity?
The important political, social, economic, or situational background information about the time period in which a source was created is called this.
What is historical context?
This tribe was removed to Washington state and held in prisoners of war camps, and upon their return found it difficult to collect food in their usual and accostomed places.
Who are the Burns Paiute Tribe?
The Coast treaty never actually endede up with the promised reservation for this reason.
The treaty was never ratified.
Historians estimate that up to _____ of remaining tribal lands were lost to the process of allotment.
What is 75%?!
Federal policies like the Donation Land Act, Termination, Assimilation were all part of this process.
What is genocide?
This is one factor that can be a limitation of a source.
What is... (answers will vary)
This is one specific example of a tribe showing resistance or resilliance.
What is... (answers will vary)
This policy of the federal government nullified any previous treaties signd with the tribes who were affected by it.
What is termination?
This is the name of the 1997 federal law that instituted the allotment policy.
What is the Dawes Act?
The fact that the U.S. conducted treaty making processes with tribes is an indication if this essential understanding.
What is sovereignty?
What is because it's likely to be more candid and honest?
This essential understanding is said to "connwect tribes to place, ancestors, and worldview."
What is language?