Native American Excellence
This staple food is not produced naturally yet fed most of Pre-Columbian Americas.
What is Maize/Corn?
Christopher Columbus believed he had crashed onto the shores of this country upon his arrival to the Americas.
What is India?
This is the amount of times California was colonized by imperial and colonial powers.
What is 3 times?
Policy of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, and exploiting it economically.
What is Colonization?
The Spanish colonizers established this network of buildings throughout the Southwestern U.S. for multiple purposes.
What are the Catholic Missions?
The ancestral stewards of the land we now stand on.
Who are the Wukchumni Yokuts peoples?
Science has proven that this is a social, not a biological construct.
What is race?
The Méxica claim their homeland of Aztlan was said to have originated here.
What is the Four-Corners region of the U.S?
Examines the histories, experiences and cultures of various racial and ethnic groups and explores race and ethnicity in various social, cultural, historical, political and economic contexts.
What is Ethnic Studies?
National Day of Truth & Reconciliation commemorates this dark period in U.S. History.
What is the Native American Boarding School era?
A racial identifier expressing the original peoples of North, Central, South America, and the Caribbean.
What is "Native American"?
Western scientists claim that people from the Asian continent crossed this bridge to arrive in the Americas 15,000 years ago.
What is the Berring Land Bridge?
This is the name multiple Native American nations have given to the landmass we currently stand on.
What is "Turtle Island"?
A system where colonial powers engage in ethnic cleansing by displacing and dispossessing the existing indigenous population.
What is Settler Colonialism?
This is the name given to the type of hardship American Indians experienced through multiple forms of abuse which then gets passed on to future generations.
What is Intergenerational Trauma?
A celebratory day that expresses an alternative to the celebration of the beginning of the genocide of Native peoples in the Americas.
What is Indigenous People's Day?
When European and Euro-American histories, practices, and perspectives are universalized and centered as the only acceptable standard.
What is Eurocentrism?
This racist system of White Supremacy was law and enforced through military action in the Americas from the early 1500s to the early 1800s during Spanish colonial rule.
What is the Spanish Caste System?
In Roman Catholicism, an official papal letter decreed by the Pope that asserts the Vatican's power over Indigenous homelands, resources, and people.
What is a Papal Bull?
This individual estabalished the Carlisle Indian School.
Who is Captain Pratt?
Tine Curiel-Allen's statement, "TO ACKNOWLEDGE OTHERS AS AN EXTENSION OF ONESELF WHILE DEMONSTRATING RESPECT, CARE, AND CONNECTION TO THEM...FOR THE NEXT SEVEN GENERATIONS TO COME." is an example of what Indigenous principle and practice?
What is reciprocity?
To erase ANY semblance or record of the original Indigenous inhabitants of an environment or region.
What is erasure?
This decolonial term sought to provide an alternative to the harmful terminology imposed by the U.S. Government through reconnection to one's Indigenous heritage and identity.
What is "Chicano"?
This concept allows us to see the nuanced ways varying racial groups experience racism, while its application opposes racists institutions and systems.
What is antiracism?
Converting uncultivated land into a commodity is an example of this type of thinking.
What is Lockean Thinking?