Famous Figures
An explorer who "discovered" America which began the colonization of the Americas.
Christopher Columbus
This forced Natives to assimilate into non-Indigenous society. It forbade First Nations peoples and communities from expressing their identities through governance and culture.
Indian Act
A celebration supposivly to commemorate the colonial Pilgrims' harvest meal that they shared with Wampanoag Indians. When in reality it was much darker.
Thanksgiving
A concept created by white settlers that refers to the amount of so-called “Indian blood” that an individual possesses. It plays a role in the allotment of land.
Blood Quantum
This person defines settler colonialism not as a historical event but as a system that erases and destorys native people.
Patrick Wolfe
This required Native Americans on reservations to register themselves to receive an allotment of land.
Dawes Act of 1887
A day that has become controversial due to the fact that it gives a postive light to the colonization and death of Native Americans.
Columbus Day
Defined as “inhabiting or existing in a land from the
earliest times or from before the arrival of
colonists; indigenous.” Used in Australia and Canada.
Aborigional
Lakota worrior who fought against the federal government and the invasion of white settlers. Has a large monument whith his left hadn pointing forward.
Crazy Horse
A court case which ruled that much of the eastern portion of the state of Oklahoma remains as Native American lands. So prosecution of crimes by Native Americans on these lands falls into the jurisdiction of the tribal courts and federal gov.
McGirt v. Oklahoma
This holiday replaces Columbus Day in order to honor and protest the conquest of Natives by Europeans and the loses that the Natives suffered.
Indigenous People's Day
The type of tribal land where the federal government holds legal title, but the beneficial interest remains with the Individual Indian or Nation.
Trust Land
The person who proposed the Dawes Act of 1887.
Henry Laurens Dawes
Authorized to hold ”competency” hearings before granting fee patent and US citizenship. Still applies to any enrolled tribal member who wants to take original allotment lands out of trust to sell, subdivide, etc.
Burke Act of 1906
A month to call attention to the culture, traditions, and achievements of the origional inhabitatants of America.
Native American Heritage Month
This led to the forced removal of Cherokees from their southeastern homelands to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River. Made many Cherokees feel like they betrayed their tribe, many still feel this way.
Treaty of New Echota