Acts
This president signed the Indian Removal Act into law and vigorously pursued policies of Indigenous displacement.
Andrew Jackson
What year did Native American people begin to inhabit Alactraz?
1969
Why were Native Ameicans forced into missions and boarding schools
After realizing they couldn't murder every Native American they decided to "kill the Indian save the man."
This term refers to the communal and often matrilineal social structure of many Indigenous societies in the Americas before European contact.
clan-based society
This 1830 U.S. law mandated the removal of Indigenous peoples from their homelands in the Southeastern United States.
Indian Removal Act
What Legislation did president Monroe sign that affected Native Americans?
The Indian Civilization act
How many Native Americans came to Alcatraz originally
89
What was the realtiy of the missions
Thousands of Native Americans were forced to live at mission sites to “train them for life in European colonial society”
Indigenous peoples of the Americas developed this technique for growing crops that involves planting corn, beans, and squash together.
"Three Sisters" agricultural method
This phrase describes the 19th-century belief that it was the United States' divine right to expand across the North American continent.
Manifest Destiny
What Document did Pope Alexander VI create?
Papal Bull "inter Caetera/ Doctrine of discovery
Why did the Native American people leave Alcatraz and when did it happen
The coast guard evicted them from the land in 1971
Physical, mental, and/or sexual violence
Before European contact, this was the estimated population range of Indigenous peoples in the Americas.
50 to 100 million
This infamous event, resulting from the forced relocation of the Cherokee people, led to thousands of deaths.
Trail of Tears
What was the purpose of the Indian Civilization act?
To "re-educate" Native Americans into Chrisianity
What was the official name of the Native American group that initiated the move to Alcatraz?
"Indians of All Tribes"
Why are mission projects in elementary schools inaccurate?
They hide the reality of the countries bloody history
This term describes the false narrative that the Americas were an "empty wilderness" before European settlers arrived.
Doctrine of Discovery
This 1864 massacre of over 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho people by U.S. troops in Colorado exemplified the brutality faced by Indigenous communities during westward expansion.
Sand Creek Massacre
When did the Red Power Movement end
Trick question. It has no definitive ending
This political confederation of Native American nations served as a model of democracy for European settlers.
Iroquois Confederacy
This resistance leader led a coalition of Indigenous nations against U.S. forces in the Ohio Valley in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Tecumseh