Community Organizing Basics
Term for identifying common goals and working together to achieve them in a community.
What is collaboration?
This 1830 law forced Native Americans to relocate, leading to the Trail of Tears.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
True or False: Advocacy is the act of speaking on behalf of others to influence decision-making.
What is true?
This month is celebrated as Native American Heritage Month in the United States.
What is November?
True or False: Native American reservations are exempt from federal laws.
What is false?
The process of rallying people around an issue to bring about change.
What is mobilization?
The 1970s movement aimed at reclaiming Native sovereignty and rights was known as this.
What is the American Indian Movement (AIM)?
This term refers to the right of Indigenous peoples to govern themselves.
What is sovereignty?
This Native American political organization advocates for tribal sovereignty and treaty rights across the U.S.
What is the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI)?
This act, passed in 2021, aims to address cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women.
What is Savanna's Act?
The first step in creating a successful community campaign.
What is identifying the issue?
This 1978 law protects Native children from being removed from their communities in adoption cases.
What is the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA)?
True or False: Leadership is about making all decisions without input from others.
What is false?
This Native American athlete won Olympic gold medals in both the pentathlon and decathlon in 1912.
Who is Jim Thorpe?
Name a challenge Native Americans face regarding voting rights.
What is lack of polling places on reservations?
The method of assessing power dynamics and stakeholders in a community organizing campaign.
What is power analysis?
This is the year Native Americans were granted U.S. citizenship.
What is 1924?
What is the strategy of engaging people in direct action, such as protests or marches, to raise awareness and create change?
What is direct action?
This Native American author is known for her book The Round House, which won the National Book Award in 2012.
Who is Louise Erdrich?
One issue that Native American communities face in accessing healthcare.
What is lack of funding or geographic barriers?
This term refers to building a broad base of supporters who are committed to a common cause through ongoing engagement and communication.
What is base-building?
This Native American tribe is credited with developing the first written Native language.
What is the Cherokee?
These programs are designed to empower young people with skills, knowledge, and opportunities to become active leaders in their communities.
What are youth leadership programs?
Native Americans are revitalizing this traditional practice of controlled burning to care for the land.
What is cultural fire management?
This Supreme Court case, decided in 2023, upheld protections under the Indian Child Welfare Act.
What is Haaland v. Brackeen?