Legislation
Rules that Native Americans can occupy, but cannot hold title to, land.
What is Johnson vs. McIntosh? (1823)
a lens that can help us analyze overlapping and intersecting experiences of oppression
What is intersectionality?
What is reservations?
What metaphor does the novel open with and reference throughout?
What are roots threatening the foundation of a house?
The Jim Crow South rule that order to be classified as Black, one only needs one Black or partially Black ancestor
laws in the United States that define Native American identity by percentages of ancestry.
What are Blood Quantum Laws?
the willful ignorance of race and the ways that racial identity shapes experience and opportunity
What is colorblind ideology?
What is the Trail of Tears?
What edible item does Linda Wishkob keep bringing to Joe and his family? Hint: He uses this to get close to her so he can learn Linden Lark's routine.
What is banana bread?
What does MMIW stand for?
What is Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women?
signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders
the process in which a minority or marginalized group or culture comes to resemble a dominant group or assume the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group.
What is assimilation?
A system implemented in the 19th and 20th century meant to forcible assimilate Native children through removal from family systems, hair cutting, erasure of Native languages, etc.
What is Indian Boarding Schools?
Who is the governor of South Dakota in the novel?
Who is Curtis Yeltow?
The idea that Native people have no right to their own lands because European immigrants "bestowed on them civilization and Christianity"
What is the Doctrine of Christian Discovery?
the federal government decides that there are certain crimes that, despite having taken place on Native land among Native people, remain under U.S. jurisdiction.
What is The Major Crimes Act of 1885?
The (false) notion that the US Government is like a father to Native tribes, allowing them to act in the "best" interests of Native Americans.
What is Benevolent Paternalism?
What is the Native American Literary Renaissance?
What did the men accuse Nanapush's mother of being?
What is a Windigoo?
Who wrote "There is No Hierarchy of Oppression?"
Who is Audre Lorde?
This act resulted in over 64 percent of Native people living in large cities, as opposed to the 6% before its enactment.
What is The Indian Relocation Act of 1956?
discrimination or prejudice against non-heterosexual people based on the assumption that heterosexuality is the norm, default, and ideal sexual orientation
What is heterosexism?
the inherent authority of indigenous tribes to govern themselves within the borders of the United States of America
What is sovereignty?
Who does Cappy have a relationship with, and why is she at the reservation?
Who is Zelia? and What is a mission trip?
When did Geraldine stop going to church?
What is after she came back from boarding school?