Modern Issues
What is IHS short for?
What is the Indian Health Service?
What was the Virgin Soil Effect?
What is when diseases killed Native peoples who had no prior exposure?
What was the goal of U.S.–Native treaty agreements?
What is to gain land with Native cooperation?
What does “eugenics” mean?
What is selective breeding to create “better” humans?
What was the goal of the Red Power movement?
What is to regain sovereignty and unity among Indigenous peoples?
Why is healthcare considered a treaty right for Indigenous peoples?
What is because it was promised in treaties and federal law?
About what percent of Native Americans were killed after European colonization?
What is 95 percent?
What made many treaties unfair?
What is that they were vague, unequal, and written with bad intent?
Between 1966–1976, about how many Indigenous women were sterilized in Canada?
What is 1,200?
What kinds of actions did activists use during the Red Power era?
What are occupations, marches, and community gatherings?
What would Trump’s proposed IHS budget cuts have caused?
What is less access to hospitals, doctors, and preventive care?
The “Original Occupation” period ended mainly because of what two major causes?
What are disease and land loss?
What happened when treaties were broken?
What is Native land was taken and tribes were forced to relocate?
Name one “tool of discrimination” used to justify eugenics.
What is craniometry or intelligence testing?
What is the mission of the Native American Rights Fund (NARF)?
What is to defend Native rights and sovereignty, including healthcare access?
Name one major issue facing IHS facilities even before the cuts.
What is underfunding, understaffing, or outdated equipment?
How many Native people (approximately) were killed after colonization?
What is about 20 million?
What was the Dawes Act, and what did it do?
What is a law that divided Native communal land into private property to force assimilation?
What were the Sexual Sterilization Acts in Alberta and British Columbia?
What are laws allowing forced sterilizations of people labeled “unfit”?
What is the main goal of the Decolonizing Wealth Project?
What is to redistribute wealth and rebalance power among communities?
How do modern healthcare biases mirror colonial injustices?
What is they reflect stereotypes, neglect, and unequal treatment toward Indigenous people?
Why were European diseases so deadly to Native populations?
What is because they had no prior exposure or natural immunity?
How did the Dawes Act disguise land theft?
What is it claimed to protect property rights but sold leftover land to white settlers?
What did eugenics falsely claim about Indigenous people?
What is that they were biologically inferior and should not reproduce?
What does “reparative philanthropy” mean?
What is giving resources back to repair harm and promote justice and healing?