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Navajo Words
Boarding School Words
Military Terms
Military Terms II
Mixed Bag!!!
100
Navajo land
What is Dinetah?
100
The social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
What is assimilation?
100
an agreement to work together
What is alliance?
100
a surprise and violent attack by Japanese soldiers using guns, swords, or even bare hands until the enemy is killed
What is banzai attack?
100
a person killed or injured in a war or accident
What is a casualty?
200
bilagaanaa
What are white people?
200
to convert to Christianity
What is Christianize?
200
a unit of the military that uses large, transportable cannons and high caliber guns
What is artillery?
200
constant attack and bombing
What is bombardment?
200
the violent overthrow of a government by a small internal group
What is a coup?
300
House, or home
What is hogan
300
to educate in matters of culture and refinement
What is civilize?
300
a knife that can be fixed to the end of a rifle and used as a weapon
What is bayonet?
300
a construction battalion of the Navy that built airstrips, naval bases, and roads to keep the Allied forces on the move
What are Seabees?
300
native to the land
What is indigenous?
400
"Our mother" the United States (the sacred land that sustains us)
What is Nahima?
400
European religion, politics, traditions
What is "Western" ideology?
400
food packets carried by military during war
What are C-rations?
400
heavily armed Navy patrol boats
What are PT boats?
400
Expansionism - to spread and take over land as your own as if it is destined by "God"
What is Manifest Destiny?
500
Kii Yazhi
Who is "little Boy?"
500
Native American tradition of "we" - oneness with each other and nature
What is collective identity?
500
unloading from a ship
What is debarkation?
500
loading onto a ship
What is embarkation?
500
false or misleading information that is spread to influence others
What is propaganda?