Native History
True or False: Native Tribes had a flourishing economic trading system.
What is true?
This local area is considered sacred to the Southern Paiute Tribe.
What is Red Rock?
The main reason the United States government made treaties.
What is to acquire native lands?
The Universal House of Justice is deeply concerned about the welfare of Indian people of America and yearns to see them take their rightful place as a significant element in the spiritualization of humanity, the construction of a unified world, and the establishment of a global civilization.
Who is the Universal House of Justice?
We are poor...but we are free.
No white man controls our footsteps. What is Native (Sitting Bull Hunkpapa Lakota)
This Confederacy of Nations was a forerunner of American Democracy
What is the Iroquois Confederacy.
True or False: All Native American tribes have the same traditions and way of life.
What is False?
True or False: The European immigrants only took the land than the Indigenous People gifted them. Most treaties were fair compromises.
False.
We affirm once again the vital necessity of teaching African Americans and Indigenous peoples, groups whose capabilities and ultimately indispensable contributions to the advancement of this Cause have been attested to in the writings of our Faith.
Look here, Father; our lands belong to us; we shall keep them; we do not wish to talk to you any more.
What is Native? (Chief Minominee Potawatomi Nation)
True or False: Coastal tribes could get buffalo hides/robes.
What is true? Through trading we have a lot of items found in various areas that are not their native things. Example: sea shells found in the Plains region.
True or False: Some Native tribes accepted Removal to maintain their tribal nation.
What is True.
This removal of tribes from the eastern US to the Midwest is often known as The Trail of _________.
What are Tears?
You must give great importance to teaching the Indians, i.e., the aborigines of America. Likewise, should these Indians and aborigines be educated and obtain guidance, there is no doubt that through the divine teachings, they will become so enlightened as in turn to shed light to all regions.
Who is Abdu'l-Baha
[I have no desire to see] the poor remnants of a once powerful people. [the Removal Bill represents] oppression with a vengeance.
What is European (Davy Crockett)
The local place that is an important place in the history of the Southern Paiute Creation story.
What are the Spring Mountains?
One thing that represented the heart of the home that the Native people took with them when they were displaced to the west.
This term for the lands of the country made it easy for the US government to justify taking the lands since it didn't belong to anyone.
What is Wilderness?
True civilization will unfurl its banner in the midmost heart of the world whenever a certain number of its distinguished and high-minded sovereigns—the shining exemplars of devotion and determination—shall, for the good and happiness of all mankind, arise, with firm resolve and clear vision, to establish the Cause of Universal Peace. They must make the Cause of Peace the object of general consultation, and seek by every means in their power to establish a Union of the nations of the world. They must conclude a binding treaty and establish a covenant, the provisions of which shall be sound, inviolable and definite. They must proclaim it to all the world and obtain for it the sanction of all the human race.
Who is Abdu'l-Baha?
Will the American government steal? Will it lie? Will it kill?
What is European (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The reason the Southern Paiute "salt" songs are so important.
They help the people move on their journey of life to the next world.
The attitude that those of European descendants often display when interacting with Native peoples; something even Baha'is need to guard against.
What is Paternalism?
This term referred to God's providence that the European immigrants were meant to spread over the country from coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny.
The susceptibilities of these races and nations,...differing widely in their customs and standards of living, should at all times be carefully considered, and under no circumstances neglected.
Who is Shoghi Effendi?