Pre-Colonial/Early Colonial Indigenous History
True or False: Indigenous peoples often view land as a sacred entity that is interwoven with their cultural identity and spiritual practices.
Passed in 1830, this law authorized the federal government to negotiate treaties to remove Native American tribes east of the Mississippi River to lands in the West.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Founded in 1879 in Pennsylvania, this institution was one of the first off-reservation boarding schools aimed at assimilating Native American children into Euro-American culture.
What is the Carlisle Indian School?
This cultural and social movement in the 1960's (around the same time as the civil rights movement) focused on indigenous rights, self-determination, and the restoration of tribal sovereignty and cultural identity.
What is the red power movement?
What Tribe interacted with the Jamestown Colony?
Who were the Powhatans?
This 1803 land acquisition doubled the size of the United States and was negotiated by President Thomas Jefferson. This jumpstarted American's desires for westward expansion, eventually leading to the Indian Wars
What is the Lousiana Purchase?
Barracks-like living conditions, dress code, military style discipline, low graduation rates
These protests in 2016-2017 were directed against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, highlighting issues of indigenous rights and environmental protection.
What is the Standing Rock Protest?
What kept the Jamestown colony alive during the early days of its formation?
This 1887 U.S. law aimed to assimilate Native Americans by allotting them individual plots of land and selling surplus to non-Natives.
What is the Dawes Act?
Name of the person who founded the Carlisle School?
Who is Richard Pratt?
Also known as the Battle of the Little Bighorn, this 1876 conflict saw a coalition of Native American tribes decisively defeat U.S. Army forces. To this day, it is a symbol of Indigenous victory.
Question: What is the Battle of Greasy Grass?
Describe the connection between indigenous tribes before european colonization
Will accept:
extensive trade networks,
similar cultural practices,
ancestral ties that facilitated alliances,
and treaties among various Indigenous groups across North America.
This 19th-century doctrine held that the expansion of the United States across the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
What is Manifest Destiny?
What were some ways the Cherokee nation tried to resemble the United States during expansion times?
1.Made their own constituion
2. Enslaved African Americans
This man led the Cherokee Nation in legal battles for their land and sovereignty, encouraging Cherokees to stay and fight for their land in the Indian Wars.
Who was John Ross?
How did Pocahontas die? (will not be on the quiz)
disease (some type of upper-respiratory disease/tuberculosis)
This Cherokee encouraged the Cherokee nation to leave their Native Land and move west for their safety and survival, joining the tragic path known as "The Trail of Tears"
Who was John Ridge?
This vocabulary term refers to the inherent authority of indigenous tribes to govern themselves and manage their own affairs, often recognized through treaties and federal policies.
What is Sovereignty (or Native Sovereignty)?
This Shawnee leader, known as "The Prophet," played a key role in the Native American resistance against U.S. assimilation in the early 19th century.
Who was Tenskatawa?