A political system of allied tribes and villages under one leader
What is a chiefdom?
100
An example of balanced exchange
What is Kula?
100
The destruction, in whole or in part, of a racial, ethnic, or religious group.
What is genocide?
100
A California law that said that Indian people have the right to operate "Las Vegas-style gambling" on their reservations.
What is Proposition 5?
100
3 parties that have political and legal tensions over Native American gaming.
What is federal, state, and tribal?
200
Woman-led political systems, found in Melanesia
What is "Big Woman"?
200
An example of redistribution
What is Moka?
200
The 19th century belief of white settlers that it was their right to expand westwards and destroy any Native Americans in their path
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
The only federally recognized Chumash band.
What is the Iniseno band?
200
Land managed by a Native American tribe under the United States Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs. Land cannot be sold and the US government owns the land.
What is a reservation?
300
Ridicule and shaming are often used as forms of social control in these societies.
What is small scale societies?
300
Form of exchange that involves the least conscious sense of interest in material gain or of what might be received in return. Main form of exchange in foraging societies. Found among close kin and friends cross-culturally.
What is generalized reciprocity?
300
The act of settling into an area that may already be inhabited; subjugating a people; ruling over and/or controlling a people in a given area
What is colonization?
300
1887 law that legally manipulated land rights in favor of white settlers. Native American reservations were to be divided and redistributed to individual tribal members as their personal property.
What is the Dawes Act?
300
Group associated with horticulture and pastoralism. Comprises several bands, each with similar lifestyle, language, and territory; members often know each other and are related.
What is a tribe?
400
The place with the highest rates of women's political participation in the world.
What is Nordic states
400
Form of exchange of approximately equally valued goods and services between people of roughly equal social status. If a party fails to complete the exchange, the relationship will break down.
What is expected reciprocity?
400
The ethnic cleansing in which 15,000 Cherokee and other neighboring tribes were forced to move to Oklahoma. Many people died of starvation and the cold.
What is the Trail of Tears?
400
Agreements often broken by white settlers that were made with Native Americans over land rights
What are treaties?
400
System that provides health care, education, housing, and job opportunities to everyone, regardless of background or socioeconomic status (SES).
What is the welfare state?
500
The process by which people maintain orderly life in groups. Culturally defined rules and ways to ensure that people follow the rules.
What is social control?
500
The buying and selling of commodities under competitive conditions in which the forces of supply and demand determine value and the seller seeks to make a profit. Range from formal to huge shopping centers.
What is unbalanced exchange?
500
Institutions where Native American children were sent to be forced to lose their native language and culture; a form of "whitewashing" and assimilation
What are boarding schools?
500
2 trust funds that the Chumash are legally obligated to contribute to.
What is the Revenue Sharing Trust Fund and the Special Distribution Trust Fund?
500
When one person collects goods or money from many members of a group and provides social return (compensation) at a later time.