Pre-European
This is a system of government used by the Iroquois Confederacy.
What is a democracy?
What is Manifest Destiny?
This 1675-1676 conflict is the result of increasing settler expansion.
What is King Philip's War?
The American Indian Movement was founded in this city in 1968.
What is Minneapolis?
James McDonald is historically significant for being the first Native American to hold this profession
What is a lawyer?
Three specific crops that formed the foundation of Native agriculture
What are corn, beans, and squash?
1830 law that specifically strengthened the government's power to take tribal lands
Nearly this many Lakota men, women, and children were killed by the U.S. Army's Cavalry in 1890
What is 250-300?
This 1970 policy shift allowed Native Americans to decide their own future while keeping federal protections.
What is self determination?
These four men, Dennis Banks, Clyde Bellecourt, George Mitchell, and Russel Means, are credited with starting what movement in 1968?
What is the AIM Movement?
This disease caused mass deaths among Native populations, allowing Europeans to conquer them.
What is smallpox?
Legal contracts that were violated by the U.S. government whenever they became inconvenient
What are "treaties"?
Despite the massacre at Wounded Knee, this many soldiers were awared Medals of Honor for their actions at Wounded Knee?
What is 20 soldiers?
President Nixon argues that this old policy of forcing Natives to blend in is a failure because it demoralizes and immobilizes people.
What is assimilation?
This U.S. President issued a message in 1970 that shifted federal policy from assimilation to self-determination
Who is Richard Nixon?
Pre-European tribes were connected to each other through this.
What are trade networks?
In the "American Progress" painting, these animals are part of Native culture and are shown fleeing into darkness.
What are buffalo?
The AIM occupation of Wounded Knee in 1973 lasted for this many days without being settled
What is 71 days?
This major 1978 protest began in San Francisco and ended in Washington, D.C.
What is "The Longest Walk"
These were the first two American leaders to propose cultural assimilation of Native Americans as a way to encourage "civilizing".
Who are George Washington and Henry Knox.
The existence of pre-European civilizations challenges the master narrative that Europeans did this to the land.
What is "improved" the land?
When expanding, the U.S. ignored both treaties and legal decisions made by which court?
What is the Supreme Court?
This early conflict between settlers and Native tribes took place from 1636 to 1638.
What is the Pequot War?
Founded in 1972, this organization used the Indian Education Act to establish culturally relevant programs
What is the National Indian Youth Council
Before his death in 1831, James McDonald fought to keep this tribal territory safe from settlers.
What is the Choctaw tribal territory?